KEPLER'S DREAM

A young girl makes her fractured family whole again with the heip of a very special book.

When eleven-year-old Ella's mother has to be hospitalized to undergo a dangerous cancer treatment, Ella spends the summer at "Broken Family Camp" with her eccentric grandmother, whom she's never met. The situation is hardly ideal for either of them. Ella is scared her mother may die, but her grandmother seems to care more about her library full of books than she does about her very own granddaughter. But when a rare and beloved book, Kepler's Dream of the Moon, is stolen from her grandmother's amazing library, Ella and her new friend Rosie make up their minds to find it. Finding the beautiful book her grandmother loves so much could even be the key to healing Ella's broken family. An affecting and beautifully written story of family, forgiveness and the wonder of the stars, Kepler's Dream is a sparkling and memorable debut.

Juliet Bell grew up a California kid like Ella, who always loved stories in all shapes and sizes. She enjoys riding, and looking at the stars, and did have an amazing grandmother who kept a hundred peacocks at a place pretty similar to the House of Mud. As family and friends will tell you, Juliet has a close personal connection to the writer Sylvia Brownrigg, who has published five books for adults, but her children especially are hoping Juliet will write more stories for young people. Her next one may be about a boy and an adventure on the river, since her son likes to fish. Juliet lives in Berkeley, California with her husband and their children, and a big curly-haired brown dog. She loves getting letters from her readers, and helping kids learn how to write their stories down, too—whether under their own names, or a name they've made up.