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A "Top 20 YA/Teen Book of 2026 (So Far)" as voted on by Amazon editors

THE ROACH KING OF RALEIGH

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A Junior Library Guild Selection!!

"Stocker offers a gritty portrayal of a teenager navigating financial insecurity, family tumult, and bullying—and the unlikely solution he cooks up to alleviate his worries. Unflinching prose fittingly highlights Quill’s willingness to be vulnerable as he grapples with unresolved issues in his familial relationships, culminating in a moving and believable interrogation of one teen’s changing outlook and his growing ability to trust others." 

-Publisher's Weekly

Cover art by Michelle Carlos

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Available wherever books are sold, including:

Carmichael's Books
(Louisville's indie)

Amazon

Quail Ridge Books
(NC indie bookstore)

Cover art by Ellen Duda

Praise for
STRONGER AT THE SEAMS

""The writing is descriptive and lyrical in style. This must-read book for teens with chronic illness has universal themes for all readers about the importance of self-advocacy, family, and friendship." 

-School Library Journal

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Narrated by Kate Rudd, winner of Odyssey and Audie Awards for John Green's THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

Twyla is playing in a field hockey tournament, preparing to start high school, and dreaming of making varsity when the nausea begins. At first, she blames dehydration. But once school starts, her symptoms worse. A lot.

        When Twyla asks her dad about her late mother’s medical history, he shuts down the conversation. Then her best friends become weirdly cagey after she gets sick, ghosting her outside of school and whispering when she’s around. She definitely doesn’t want to tell her neighbor and lab parter what’s going on, as he’s suddenly giving her butterflies. But worst of all, doctors won’t listen—they’re convinced it’s a minor digestive issue or stress. Frustrated but determined, Twyla sets off to find answers on her own.

        When Twyla discovers a potential diagnosis in her mom’s records, she feels a twinge of hope. Maybe she can find her own reasons. But can she do it before everything in her life shatters…including Twyla herself?

"I wrote Stronger at the Seams as a form of therapy, but it is also my love letter to everyone who has ever felt broken. It is a coming-of-age story about family, undying love, hardship-but humor during hardship-and learning to advocate for yourself. With hardship comes scars. But our scars are the seams in our life where we have pieced ourselves back together again. And there is strength and beauty in that."

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