HAVEN JACOBS SAVES THE PLANET was one of School Library Journal’s Best Books of 2022. VIOLETS ARE BLUE was one of School Library Journal’s Best Books of 2021, and is both a Project Lit selection and a Cybils Finalist. MY LIFE IN THE FISH TANK is on the 2021 Bank Street list. MAYBE HE JUST LIKES YOU was a 2019 Washington Post Best Children’s Book of the Year, named to the 2020 ALA Notable and the ALA Rise: A Feminist Book Project lists, and cited by Edutopia as one of 25 Essential Middle School Reads From the Last Decade. STAR-CROSSED was on the 2018 ALA Rainbow List Top Ten. Barbara’s books have earned several starred reviews and have been named to numerous state book award lists.
She is one of the co-founders of the Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival, and served on the board for the first five years.
Her next book, UNSTUCK (Aladdin/S&S– February 2024), will be her fourteenth middle grade novel.
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