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, and taught at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she served as co-chair of the Writing for Children Young Adults department. 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 (Little, Brown, illustrated by Julia Kuo)
The Gift of Dust (Knopf, forthcoming, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal)
Darwin’s Orchids (Knopf, forthcoming, illustrated by Eliza Wheeler)
Otis Knows (Beach Lane Books, forthcoming, illustrated by Steph Labors)

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)
Untitled MG (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)

Adult titles

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