Author
Marion Dane Bauer
2 books here
On My Honor
Middle grade · ages 10–14 · 740L
A devastating, perfectly-paced introduction to real consequence and grief; unflinching about a kid's failure and the weight of living with it.
Am I blue?
Young adult · ages 12–18 · 800L · 1999
A quietly powerful story about a closeted gay teen in 1999 — still one of the most honest middle-grade explorations of early identity recognition, with zero didacticism and real peer cruelty that doesn't sanitize the cost of coming out.