With her nomination and win of the In the Margins Committee Top Ten Books for Teens award for her second published book, Ruby, Between the Cracks, Workman's young adult fiction books began to be recognized for their frank and insightful treatment of issues facing BIPOC youth and youth on the street or in restrictive custody. She is best known for her cozy mystery series Auntie Clem’s Bakery and Reg Rawlins, Psychic Investigator, and her P.I. In the early part of her career as an author, Workman focused on young adult literature, but for the latter part has written mostly mystery and suspense novels. She continued to write novels for her own enjoyment, but did not publish her debut novel, Looking Over Your Shoulder until 2013.

She wrote her first novel-length fiction at the age of twelve.

Workman’s Endless Change a try.Workman was born in Fort McMurray, Alberta in 1972 and moved to Calgary, Alberta at the age of seven. If you enjoy gritty contemporary young adult books like those by John Green and Stephen Chbosky, give P.D. Placed on the In the Margins Committee Recommended Reads, 2018 by Library Services for Youth in Custody.īy the author of Tattooed Teardrops, winner of the Top Fiction Award, In the Margins Committee, 2016. Her work is both an invitation to empathy and a cautionary tale.

Her books show us real kids facing scary real-life problems in the modern world. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In a genre dominated by kick-ass heroines in post-apocalyptic dystopian worlds, wizards and magical realism, Ms. But despite his questions, he just can’t help falling for her.ĭakota holds her secrets close, and Parker is worried that if he pushes too hard for answers, she’ll just run away. Others sensed it too and warned Parker not to get too close to Dakota. It wasn’t just the hollowness in her eyes or her traumatic past. How could he ignore the pain and fear in her dark eyes? Dakota was eager to go to school and she made friends quickly, eager to make up for a dismal childhood full of deprivation and abuse by enjoying every moment she could.īut there was something wrong with Dakota. Parker’s mother always said he jumped into things without thinking first, and that’s exactly what he did when he saw Dakota, cold and hungry, fending for herself on the city streets.

Tattooed Teardrops by P.D. Workman