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About the Author...
Deb Caletti is an award-winning author and a National Book Award finalist whose books are published and translated worldwide. Her first novel was The Queen of Everything (Simon & Schuster, 2002),of which a starred review in Publisher's Weekly proclaimed: "This marks Caletti as a writer to watch." Although written for adults, its coming-of-age themes gained it acclaim as a Y/A book. It made the cover of the esteemed review journal The Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books (the first trade book to do so in the journal's history), and then was chosen for PSLA's Top Forty of 2003 and the International Reading Association's Young Adult Choices for 2004. It is currently in its thirteenth printing.
Deb's second book, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Kirkus called it, "tender and poetic," and the book earned other distinguished recognition, including the PNBA Best Book Award, the Washington State Book Award, and School Library Journal's Best Book award. It was a finalist for the California Young Reader Medal and the PEN USA Literary Award, and was also a 2005 IRA Notable Book, an SSLI Book Awards Honor Book, and made the New York Public Library's Best Books for the Teen Age, Chicago Library's Best Books of 2004, and the Texas TAYSHA's list. Her third book, Wild Roses, won acclaim with starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly, which deemed it, "rich," and School Library Journal, which said the book was "multifaceted and emotionally devastating," with "profound observations and vivid language." It was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and was chosen as a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age and a RT Book Club Magazine's finalist for Best Y/A Book of 2005. The Nature of Jade was a summer 2007 Booksense pick, a Books A Million Book Club selection, and was a finalist for RT Magazine's Best Y/A Book of the Year.
Her fifth book "The Fortunes of Indigo Skye," released April 2008, will be followed by "The Secret Life of Prince Charming" in 2009. In addition, several recent anthologies include work by Deb, including "First Kiss, Then Tell," a Bloomsbury anthology benefiting NPR Youth Radio, and two collections of non-fiction critical essays developed by Borders Books: "The World of the Golden Compass" and "Through the Wardrobe: Your Favorite Authors on C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia." Microsoft co-founder and investor Paul G. Allen's Vulcan Productions (Hard Candy, Far From Heaven) and Infinity Features (Capote, Stone of Destiny) have also partnered to develop Deb's novels into a film series titled Nine Mile Falls.
Deb grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and earned her journalism degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. When Deb is not writing books or reading them, she is a painter and a lyricist, and speaks widely to audiences on writing and life as an author. Deb lives with her family in Seattle.
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The Secret Life of Prince Charming
"Caletti's gifts...are at their sharpest." (Starred Publisher's Weekly review)
- ABA IndieBound (formerly Booksense) Spring Pick
Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.
Quinn is surrounded by women who have had their hearts broken. Between her mother, her aunt, and her grandmother, Quinn hears nothing but cautionary tales. She tries to be an optimist–after all, she's the dependable one, the girl who never makes foolish choices. But when she is abruptly and unceremoniously dumped, Quinn starts to think maybe there are no good men after all.
It doesn't help that she's gingerly handling a renewed relationship with her formerly absent father. He's a little bit of a lot of things: charming, selfish, eccentric, lazy...but he's her dad, and Quinn's just happy to have him around again. Until she realizes how horribly he's treated the many women in his life, how he's stolen more than just their hearts. Determined to, for once, take action in her life, Quinn joins forces with the stepsister she's never met and the little sister she'll do anything to protect. Together, they set out to right her father's wrongs...and in doing so, begin to uncover what they're really looking for: the truth.
Once again, Deb Caletti has created a motley crew of lovably flawed characters who bond over the shared experiences of fear, love, pain, and joy–in other words, real life.
Read an excerpt from The Secret Life of Prince Charming
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The Fortunes of Indigo Skye
- ALA Best Books For Young Adults
- CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council)
- NYPL "Books for the Teen Age"
I suddenly see where I'm standing, and that's at the edge of change - really, really big change.
Eighteen-year-old Indigo Skye feels like she has it all - a waitress job she loves, an adorable refrigerator-delivery-guy boyfriend, and a home life that's slightly crazed but rich in love. Until a mysterious man at the restaurant leaves her a 2.5 million-dollar tip, and her life as she knew it is transformed.
At first its amazing: a hot new car, enormous flat-screen TV, and presents for everyone she cares about. She laughs off the warnings that money changes people, that they come to rely on what they have instead of who they are. Because it won't happen...not to her. Or will it? What do you do when you can buy anything your heart desires -- but what your heart desires can't be bought?
This is the story of a girl who gets rich, gets lost, and ultimately finds her way back - if not to where she started, then to where she can start again.
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The Nature of Jade
- FAME Florida Reads List Nominee
- CCBC Choices List
- South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominee
- 2008 ALA Quick Picks Nominee
- Booksense Pick
- RT Times Magazine Best Y/A Book of 2007 Nominee
- Texas Tayshas List
- Books A Million Book Club Selection
- New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
I am not my illness. "Girl with Anxiety," "Trauma of the Week" - no. I hate stuff like that. Everyone, everyone has their issue. But the one thing my illness did make me realize is how necessary it is to ignore the dangers of living in order to live. And how much trouble you can get into if you can't.
Jade DeLuna is too young to die. She knows this, and yet she can't quite believe it, especially when terrifying thoughts, loss of breath, and dizzy feelings come. Since being diagnosed with Panic Disorder she's trying her best to stay calm, and visiting the elephants at the nearby zoo seems to help. That's why Jade keeps the live zoo webcam on in her room, and where she first sees the boy in the red jacket. A boy who stops to watch the elephants. A boy carrying a baby.
His name is Sebastian, and he is raising his son alone. Jade is drawn into Sebastian's cozy life with his son and his activist grandmother on their Seattle houseboat, and before she knows it, she's in love. With this boy who has lived through harder times than anyone she knows. This boy with a past.
Jade knows the situation is beyond complicated, but she hasn't felt this safe in a long time. She owes it all to Sebastian, her boy with the great heart. Her boy who is hiding a terrible secret.
A secret that will force Jade to decide between what is right, and what feels right...
Master storyteller Deb Caletti has once again created characters so real, you will be breathless with anticipation as their riveting story unfolds.
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Wild Roses
- Finalist for the Washington State Book Award
- ALA Best Books for Young Adults Nominee
- Bank Street Best Books of the Year
- RT Book Club Magazine's finalist for Best Y/A Book of 2005
- Kansas State Reading Circle Senior High Titles
- New York Public Library "Books for the Teen Age"
- Pennsylvania School Librarian Association (PSLA) Top Ten Young Adult Books
- Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee
You would have never recognized the Dino I lived with in the books that had been
written about him before the "incident". No one had a clue. No one seemed to
see what was coming.
Seventeen-year-old Cassie Morgan has a secret: she's living with a time bomb
(A.K.A., her stepfather, Dino Cavalli). To the public, Dino is a world-renowned
violin player and composer. To Cassie, he's an erratic, self-centered bully.
Dino has always been difficult, but as he prepares for his comeback concert,
something in him begins to shift. He seems more high-strung than ever, set off
by any little thing. He stops sleeping, starts chain-smoking. And he grows
increasingly paranoid, saying things that Cassie is desperate to make sense of,
but can't. So she does what she thinks she must: she tries to hide his behavior
from the outside world. Before, she was angry. Now, she is afraid.
Enter Ian Waters: A brilliant young violinist, and Dino's first-ever student.
The minute Cassie lays eyes on Ian she knows she's doomed. She tries everything
to keep away from him, but is drawn to him in a way she's never felt before.
It should be easy. It should be beautiful. It is not. Cassie thought she understood
that love could bring pain. But this union will have consequences she could not have imagined.
As the novel crashes through two irreparable events and speeds toward its powerful end,
one thing becomes clear: in the world of insanity, nothing is sacred. Not talent, not spirit, not love.
Deb Caletti has written a devastating and gorgeously crafted novel that brings into stark relief
the place where genius, madness, and passion collide.
Read an excerpt from Wild Roses
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Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
- National Book Award Finalist
- PEN USA Literary Award Finalist
- PNBA Best Book Award 2005
- Washington State Book Award Winner
- California Young Reader Medal Finalist 2005/2006
- SLJ Best Book of the Year
- SSLI Book Award Honor Book
- Booksense Pick
- New York Public Library Best Books for the Teen Age 2005
- Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books for 2004
- 2005 IRA Children's Book Award Notable
- CCBC (Cooperative Children's Book Council) Choices
- Florida Reads Master List
- Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master List
- PLSA Top Ten Young Adult Books
- Texas Tayshas List
- Florida Reads List
- Arizona Young Reader Book Award Nominee
- Buckeye Teen Book Award Nominee (OH)
- IRA Children's Book Award Notable
- Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee
- PSLA Fiction List
Ruby McQueen is a sixteen-year-old high school student with the name,
she thinks, of a rodeo cowgirl porn star, or, maybe worse, a Texas
beauty queen runner-up. Ruby, ordinarily dubbed the Quiet Girl,
finds herself hanging out with gorgeous, rich, thrill-seeking Travis
Becker. With Travis, Ruby can be someone she’s never been
before: Fearless. Powerful. But Ruby is in over her head, and finds
herself risking more and more...
Read an excerpt from Honey, Baby,
Sweetheart, or order now
from Amazon.com.
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Queen of Everything
- ALA/YALSA Best Books of 2004 Finalist
- PSLA's Top Forty 2002
- International Reading Association's Young Adult Choices for 2004
- CCBC Choices
People
ask me all the time what having Vince MacKenzie for a father was
like. What they mean is, was he always crazy?
High
school junior Jordan MacKenzie's life was pretty typical: fractured
family, new boyfriend, dead-end job. She'd been living with her
father (the predictable optometrist) since her mother (the hippie
holdover) had been too embarrassing to be around. How could she
have imagined that her father's illicit love affair would soon
implode in a violent and disturbing way?
Read an excerpt from The Queen
of Everything, or buy it now
from Amazon.com.
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