TERI BROWN

Teri Brown has been working as a freelance writer for the last eight years. She’s a contributing editor for iParenting Media and the author of two published nonfiction books on homeschooling and fieldtrips. Her magazine credits include Writer’s Digest Magazine, Women’s Health and Fitness, Dog Fancy, Oregon Coast Magazine and Road King, among many others. When not writing, taking care of her animals, or dealing with the jungle that is her Portland, Oregon backyard, she hangs out with her two teenagers, deaf teenage niece and all their various and sundry friends. This is her first young adult novel.

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Read My Lips
On Sale June 3, 2008

Serena Nelson is a city-bred skater chick, so when her parents decide to move to a small town in Oregon she's not sure it's going to work out. The kids at her new school are all cookie-cutter prepsters and she hardly fits in. But then the most popular girls in school find out Serena, who is deaf, has an amazing talent for reading lips. So they recruit Serena to read everyone and anyone's lips for the latest gossip.

And as it turns out, the popular girls aren't just popular...they're part of an exclusive secret sorority and now Serena's up for membership. Some of the girls don't think Serena's sorority material, others don't like Miller, the school rebel she's been dating, and many see her lip-reading as a threat. Soon, Serena's feeling used for her lip-reading, and Miller's ready to kiss her goodbye as she starts to fit the "popular girl" model. Can Serena find a way to fit in without losing herself?