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There are just things a girl turning thirteen has to do if she lives on Gabbard Mountain. Like track down her brother Milo who went away to High Jerusalem and left his danged foot behind! And why not ride Sir William, the amazing hog, who is faster than a white tornado? Before the girl's done, she faces the Floating Head, outruns Goblins, retrieves miracle water from Green Pond, gives her brother Randall back his grit, and gets those squabbling Sizemores and Gabbards together again. Oh, yes, and along the way Magpie saves the moon . . . and gets herself a boyfriend!

"Keehn captures Appalachian colloquialisms and language to perfection while maintaining an action-packed, rip-snorting, hilarious pace that never lets readers go." ~School Library Journal

" . . .MAGPIE GABBARD cements Sally M. Keehn's reputation (as demonstrated with her earlier GNAT STOKES AND THE FOGGY BOTTOM SWAMP QUEEN) as a first-class chronicler of down-home folklore. Keehn combines real folk elements from American and British lore with her keen ear for Appalachian colloquialisms. The result is a uniquely American fantasy story, a welcome alternative to Anglocentric children's fantasy novels that seem to dominate the market." ~ KidsReads.com

Good News!

Magpie Gabbard and the Quest for the Buried Moon has been nominated for the Evelyn Thurman Young Readers Award, a newly created award which recognizes a book written or illustrated by a Kentucky author or illustrator; or a work containing a significant Kentucky-related theme or connection.