Books by Susan Gabriel
Seeking Sara Summers
A Novel
Sara Summers Stanton has raised three children and works as a high school teacher at the same school she attended growing up. Her 25 year marriage is showing cracks in the facade and now she’s dealing with breast cancer.
In a rare moment of taking care of herself instead of everyone else, Sara takes a sabbatical and goes on the trip to Italy she has always dreamed of taking. This search for a more authentic life leads to. . . read more.
The Secret Sense of Wildflower
A Young Adult Novel, represented by East/West Literary Agency
In the honored tradition of Southern Gothic, Susan Gabriel seamlessly blends the culture, the pathos, and the humor of the American south in The Secret Sense of Wildflower, her debut middle-grade historical novel. With prose as lush and colorful as the American South, The Secret Sense of Wildflower is powerful and . . . read more.
How Early Riser Overthrew The Confederacy And Saved Paris France
A Middle Grade Novel, represented by East/West Literary Agency
If you’re not intrigued by the title of this middle grade novel, you soon will be by the introduction of the main character, a 12-year-old girl whose two best friends are a somewhat prissy Nancy Drew fan and an African American boy who wants to be the next Sidney Poitier. These three characters are finely drawn in a way that makes the reader want to actually meet them—perfectly normal preteens until they start planning an act of civil disobedience that . . .
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Quentin And The Cave Boy
A Middle Grade Novel, represented by East/West Literary Agency
The Stone Age meets the TEENage in this comedic "Encino Man" set in middle school. Quentin Moss is an average 13-year-old boy with an anything-but-average problem: the cave boy he dreamed about last night has shown up, alive and smelly, in his bedroom. As past and present collide with comic . . . read more.