About Martha Brockenbrough

Martha Brockenbrough graduated from Stanford University, where she studied English and Classics and was the editor in chief of the Stanford Daily. She has worked as a journalist, a teacher, the editor of MSN.com, a question writer for Cranium and Trivial Pursuit. She is program director at the University of San Francisco MFA in Writing for Young Readers.. A lifelong Seattle resident, Martha has written two books for adults and 24 books for young readers.

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The complete list of Martha’s books:

Picture Books
The Dinosaur Tooth Fairy (Scholastic, illustrated by Israel Sanchez)
Love, Santa (Scholastic, illustrated by Lee White)
Cheerful Chick (Scholastic, illustrated by Brian Won)
Back to School with Bigfoot (Scholastic, with Samantha Berger, illustrated by Dave Pressler)
Bigfoot Wants a Little Brother (Scholastic, with Samantha Berger, illustrated by Dave Pressler)
This Old Dog (Levine Querido, illustrated by Gabriel Alborozo)
I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story (with Grace Lin, Little, Brown, illustrated by Julia Kuo)
The Gift of Dust (Knopf, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal)
Darwin’s Orchids (Knopf, forthcoming, illustrated by Eliza Wheeler)
Otis Knows (with Liz Garton Scanlon) Beach Lane Books, forthcoming, illustrated by Stephanie Laberis)

Early Reader/Chapter Books
Frank and the Bad Surprise (Levine Querido)
Frank and the Masked Cat (Levine Querido)
Frank and the Big Mistake (forthcoming, Levine Querido)
Thunder Nelson’s Impossumble Dream (Algonquin)

Middle Grade Novels
To Catch a Thief (Scholastic)
At the Edge of Lost (Scholastic)

MG/YA Nonfiction
Finding Bigfoot (Feiwel & Friends)
Shark Week (Feiwel & Friends)
Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary (Feiwel & Friends)
Unpresidented: a biography of Donald Trump (Feiwel & Friends)
Future Tense: How We Made Artificial Intelligence—and How It Will Change Everything (Feiwel & Friends)

Young Adult Novels
Devine Intervention (Scholastic)
The Game of Love and Death (Scholastic)
Into the Bloodred Woods (Scholastic)

Short Stories
The Booster Machine (forthcoming anthology from Dutton)

Adult titles

It Could Happen to You (Andrews McMeel Universal)
Things That Make Us [Sic] (St. Martins)