KL's new book is a picture book for the littlest of readers! Click the image for a larger version. A full Dog In Charge page will be coming soon.

Fat Kid Rules the production scene. Filming begins on the Fat Kid movie! Check out: and

Check out KL's feature in the Writing for Kids & YA Magazine, published by Writer's Digest Yearbook.

Fat Kid Rules the BIG Screen. That's right, Fat Kid Rules the World is currently in pre-production up in Seattle, WA. (Is there a better place to shoot a movie about punk rock?!)

You can now for all the latest news.

King of the Screwups has made the Green Mountain Book Award Master list. This is Vermont's reader's choice award for students in grades 9 - 12!

King of the Screwups has been translated into the German language and released for all freaks to enjoy. Is that a harsh thing to say? Nope! The title, Voll Daneben translated means Freaks!

The Liberation of Gabriel King was featured in School Library Journal's article The Elephant in the School Yard - selected books that deal with bullying.

Book Links magazine has selected The Liberation of Gabriel King as one of the children's books that best represents the state of Georgia. Now that's some southern hospitality!

King of the Screwups has been nominated for the Kentucky Bluegrass state Award . Please visit http://kba.nku.edu to read more.

King of the Screwups has been nominated for the Georgia State Peach Book Award for Teen Readers.

King of the Screwups has been included in ALA's Rainbow Project! To read more, click HERE.

Barnes & Noble has selected King of the Screwups as one of the best teen books of 2009! Check it out on their site HERE.

Kirkus has selected King of the Screwups as one of the best young adult books of 2009! Check out the issue HERE.

KL gave birth to a 6lb 2oz baby boy on July 30th.
Ashton Paul Adams, welcome to the world!

King of the screwups was reviewed in the New York Times in the Sunday July 12th edition.
You can check it out via PDF by clicking HERE.

KL wins the Rip Van Winkle award sponsored by SLMSSENY.

The Libreation Gabriel King (Italian) has won the Andersen Award for best book for 9-12 year-olds.

FULL HOUSE has been selected for the 2010 Charlotte Award Master List in the YA category. The Charlotte Award, sponsored by the New York State Reading Association, is given every two years to books in three categories: Primary, Intermediate, and Young Adult.

Saint Iggy nominated as one of three finalists for the California Young Reader Medal.
http://californiayoungreadermedal.org/nominees.htm

The Garden of Eve was nominated for the 2009-2010 Missouri Mark Twain Readers Award!

The Liberation of Gabriel King is on the list of 2009-2010 Iowa Children's Choice Award nominees!

Advance Reading Copies (ARC) for King of the Screw Ups are available.

Liberation of Gabriel King has come out in Korea! Click on the image for a larger version.

KL's newest book is out! Writing and Selling the YA Novel.

Check out KL's books in The Ultimate Teen Book Guide.

Check out KL's in depth interview in Children's Writer's & Illustraters Market.

The Liberation of Gabriel King comes out in Italy.

The Garden of Eve has been chosen to appear on the
*Book Sense Winter 2007-2008 Children's Picks List.

Check out KL's interview with Powells.com http://www.powells.com/kidsqa/going.html

The Garden of Eve has been chosen as a Book of the Month Club pick!

Liberation has sold in S.Korea!

The Garden of Eve has been chosen as a Scholastic Book Club pick.

Three more nominations for Liberation!

2008 Massachusetts Children's Books Award Master List: http://www.salemstate.edu/education/mcba

2007-2008 Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading Award Nominee: http://www.ksra.org

2007-2008 South Carolina Junior Book Award Nominee: http://www.scasl.net/bookawards/jba.htm

Liberation is a 2007-2008 Children's Crown Award nominee in the Grades 3-5 category. The website is childrenscrownaward.org

Fat Kid Rules the World is released in Japan!
(cover art)
The title translates to "Call Me Big T" in Japanese.

The cover art is IN for KL's new middle grade novel, "The Garden of Eve".

Click HERE to see the picture.

The Garden of Eve has been chosen to be made into an audio book by Listening Library.

SAINT IGGY is included in the New York Public Library’s annual publication, "Books for the Teen Age".

This is the 78th year for this list. The purpose is to "select the best of the previous year's publishing for teenagers, 12 - 18 years old."