Exciting news!
Linda Salisbury has written two new books
for boys and girls ages 8 and up!

The Bailey Fish Adventure series continues with Trouble in Contrary Woods (book 6), and you won’t want to miss Mudd Saves the Earth: Booger Glue, Cow Diapers, and other Good Ideas.

The series features Bailey Fish, 11, who lives in Virginia with her grandmother, Sugar, while her mother is working for a year or more in Costa Rica. She misses her mom, but life takes surprising turns when she meets her father and a half sister she didn’t know about, and the homeschooled, adopted Keswick boys move in next door. Their parents open a country inn. Some of the guests are fun and full of mystery, others are problems.

Bailey must also deal with Justin, who has a reputation as a neighborhood bully, and her friend, Emily, who wants her to cheat. There are mysteries to solve and adventures to be had.

What Bailey expects, is never quite what happens.

Books in the series are sequential, but can be read independently. Each containes embedded history, lots of action and contemporary issues that appeal to boys and girls.

Chat with Bailey Fish, Sugar and the author at http://BaileyFishAdventureBooks.blogspot.com/
or e-mail baileyfish@gmail.com

Chat with Bailey Fish, Sugar, and author Linda Salisbury at http://BaileyFishAdventureBooks.blogspot.com/

Linda Salisbury, a former newspaper columnist and editor is a freelance writer and a senior editor at Tabby House. Contact her for speaking engagements. She plans to write at least eight books in this series. And she’s the author of Mudd Saves the Earth, for ages 7 and up. Mudd is illustrated by cartoonist Joe Kohl.

The Bailey Fish series are illustrated by Christopher Grotke, and Carol Tornatore.

The Thief of Keswick Inn won the Florida Publishers Association President's Pick 2007 award in the FPA President's Book Award contest. Pictured are Florida Publishers Association President Frank Gromling, author Linda Salisbury, and Betsy Lampé, executive director of the FPA, in Fort Lauderdale on September 15, 2007.

The Mysterious Jamestown Suitcase is a bronze medal winner in the 2007 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards in the Pre-teen fiction category and was a finalist in the 2008 ForeWord magazine Book of the Year Contest.

No Sisters Sisters Club earned a silver finalist distinction in FPA’s 2008 Best Children’s Fiction category.

ForeWord magazine, March 2005: "This stimulating mystery (The Wild Women of Lake Anna) contains a novel historical twist that plays into the main character's dramatic need for acceptance as she draws upon her inner strength in some unexpected ways. . . . In keeping with the latest trend in fiction books, the author seeks to educate as well as entertain. . . . This well-crafted, fast-paced novel . . . will resonate with every reader who has ever longed for acceptance or struggled with survival in the throes of fear and uncertainty." Charisse Floyd

"Stolen artifacts pale next to the psychological wallop of this new installment (Book 4, The Mysterious Jamestown Suitcase) in the popular Bailey Fish Adventure series. . . Social issues add texture . . .showing Salisbury's in-depth awareness of the complexities of growing up." Elizabeth Breau, ForeWord magazine.

"The Wild Women of Lake Anna is a wonderful book for independent intermediate readers or as a teacher read-aloud. Readers will be enthralled with the very believable plot that mirrors their lives in so many ways. Each chapter leaves the reader hanging . . . eager to continue reading to see what next happens to Bailey Fish. This book provides many opportunities for teachers to integrate Social Studies curriculum, environmental issues as well as character education. This book is sure to engage even the most reluctant readers." Joann Winkler, Teacher of the Year, Charlotte County, Florida

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