PAMELA TODD

Pamela Todd was awarded the Judy Blume Grant for a Contemporary Novel for Young People from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators for her humorous middle grade novel, PIG AND THE SHRINK (Delacorte 1999). She is a core teaching artist for the Ragdale Foundation. Visit her website at www.pamelatodd.com.

FEATURED TITLE
The Blind Faith Hotel
On Sale October, 2008

Sometimes everything has to go wrong for anything to go right

Fourteen-year-old Zoe wonders how she’ll survive when her mother leaves her father and moves her kids from the northwest coast to the Midwest. Now Zoe is surrounded by strangers and a sea of prairie grass, and she loses her bearings completely. A shoplifting episode lands her in a work program at a local nature preserve, amid endless weeds. But the work starts to stabilize Zoe and when she meets a boy who shares her love of wild things, it seems she might be home after all.  Smart and funny, this is a tender portrait of a girl growing up.

“THE BLIND FAITH HOTEL will leave a lump in your throat for all the right reasons: for the wrenching, funny, heartwarming story of Zoe Lawson, who is struggling to grow up in a family that is falling apart; for lyrical pictures of the wild world that Zoe so loves; and for the nuggets of wisdom Pamela Todd tucks into the story, like gifts, for readers who will savor them long after they have finished this moving book.” -- Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of LOVING FRANK.

“This is a deeply felt novel about coming to understand what home really means--and why. I loved so many of the characters in this book, but most of all the sometimes wise-cracking, sometimes heart- breaking, always wild in spirit Zoe, who through her own learning brought me a unique and entirely unsentimental appreciation of nature. THE BLIND FAITH HOTEL will make you see.” -- Elizabeth Berg, New York Times bestselling author of DREAM WHEN YOU'RE FEELING BLUE and THE DAY I ATE WHATEVER I WANTED