Cowboy Up, Ride the Navajo Rodeo, a recent poetry-nonfiction, is a Library Guild selection. Her award-winning books include: Navajo Year, Walk Through Many Seasons (Arizona Book Award), Warriors in the Crossfire (Colorado Book Award, YALSA), No-Name Baby (Bank Street’s 100 Best Children’s Books of 2012 Horn Book’s top choice historical novels). Nancy Bo Flood lives on the Navajo Reservation where she writes, hikes, and attends local rodeos. 2016 is my fifth year of writing a poem a day. She belongs to the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, and Writers Forum of Redding CA. THE LOST CELT is full of family, fun, and heart, with a roller-coaster ride of page-turning action.Īuthor/illustrator/storyteller/recovering-teacher/poet, Linda Boyden has written six and illustrated five picture books, The Blue Roses, Powwow’s Coming, Giveaways: An ABC Book of Loanwords from the Americas, Boy and Poi Poi Puppy, Roxy Reindeer, and Boy and Poi Poi Puppy in Doggone! She has had many poems published in various literary journals. Full of heart, The Lost Celt, shines a gentle light on some of the issues facing veterans and their families while the humor and mystery makes captures and holds the interest of young readers. This deeper story layer does not slow down the action and never becomes didactic, but introduces an awareness of some of the harsh realities faced by veterans of war – past and present. The book also touches upon some of the current challenges that veterans face. The reader follows Mikey’s quest to solve an amazing riddle that threatens his safety and survival. This middle-grade book shows it how it is to be a fourth grade boy who is hooked on video games plus time-travel adventures. THE LOST CELT is a page-turner hero’s tale full of mystery and adventure. Not to be missed.” Katherine Applegate, Winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal

“The best kind of children’s adventure story ….

The Lost Celt by A.E. Conran