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Dancing Naked
, the story of a girl dealing with a surprise pregnancy, is an International Reading Association YA Choice, an OLA White Pine winner, an ALA Best Book nominee and was on the ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers list. It is also on the ALA’s Popular Paperbacks list and continues to be a teen favorite.

Kat’s Fall
, released in 2004, is an ALA Quick Pick and an OLA White Pine nominee.

With three daughters, Shelley and her husband try to create “gender balance” in their home by sharing it with male animals— a dog, two cats and a guinea pig of indeterminate sex. Shelley is a member of various writing organizations including CANSCAIP, CWILL and the Children’s Literature Roundtable. She is an avid reader with an abiding interest in juvenile and teen fiction. Shelley’s astrological sign is Cancer, on the cusp of Leo, which she says makes her a crabby lion.

Shelley is available for media interviews, bookstore events, and school and library presentations.

Praise for books by
Shelley Hrdlitschka

Kat’s Fall
1-55143-312-5
$9.95 CDN • $7.95 U.S.

Darcy’s mother is getting out of jail. Ten years ago she was convicted of throwing his baby sister off a fifth floor balcony. Kat survived, but Darcy has spent the last decade raising his sister, giving her the love and support she has been denied by an absent mother and an uncaring father.

As he grudgingly re-establishes ties with the mother he thinks he hates, he is accused of a horrific act. It will take incredible strength—his own and others —to fight the charges, but he finds that truth is often an elusive concept and that trust and love are powerful allies.

“…in this riveting story, Darcy is such a well-drawn character that the reader feels his pain…” —
VOYA

“…this powerful novel is both heart-wrenching and shocking…” —
School Library Journal

New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2005 List

Dancing Naked
1-55143-210-2
$8.95 CDN • $6.95 U.S.

Kia is sixteen and pregnant. Faced with the most difficult decision of her life, she learns that the path to adulthood is a twisting labyrinth where every turn produces a new array of choices, and where the journey is often undertaken alone.

“…a heart-wrenching story…” —
School Library Journal

CLA YA Honor Book 2002
ALA Best Books Nominee 2003
ALA Quick Picks for Young Adult Readers 2003
ALA Popular Paperbacks 2003
White Pine Award 2003
IRA YA Choices 2004

Other books by
Shelley Hrdlitschka

Tangled Web
Disconnected
Beans on Toast