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Take a peek into the heart and soul of an ordinary man, who sees the world through a poet’s eyes and captures with words the essence of humanity, love and loss, joy and sorrow, and of nature, peace and fury, cruelty and beauty.

In Wyoming Poet Laureate’s newest collection, take a journey of the heart, the joys and sorrows of life, its challenges and triumphs.

Strange, eerie screams made the hair rise on the back of Chad’s neck. He knew better than to let the taunts and teasing get to him, but they did.

Sequel to Secret of the Black Widow. Ever since Chad and Aubrey overhear a rumor about a wooden chest and stolen gold, their imaginations have gone wild. 

Middle grade fiction adventure, 2nd place 2019 CIPA Evvy Award.

Strange how a single sound, like a snap, can change your life.

When 14-year-old Jace befriends a lone boy, his dream vacation turns into a nightmare.

Overshadowed by the death of his brother, Tony encounters the western way of life when his parents move from the East Coast to Wyoming. Starting at a new school as a sixth grader isn’t easy when your controlling mother is fearful of everything. 

A middle grade fiction humor book.

Stretching the truth causes problems for twelve-year-old Melvin Allen Burger, known to his friends as Booger, when he tries to earn money to replace his wrecked bike.

A middle grade fiction adventure.

Thirteen-year-old Ricky Atwell is going to tour the southwestern United States for eight weeks with the West Wind Summer Traveling Camp.

Illustrated by Zachary Pullen (winner of the 2010-2011 Wyoming State Historical Society Award for best juvenile fiction.) It represented the state of Wyoming at the 2010 National Book Festival in Washington D.C.

Follow along on a colorful journey through the Hawaiian Islands learning about the people and things that live there.
A riddle board book (Best Read for Wyoming 2013)
A children’s poetry collection (recipient of the 2010 Diamonds Book List Children’s Choice Award)
A humorous children’s poetry (Best Read for Wyoming 2018). This humorous collection of children’s poetry will have parents and children reading it over and over.
A sequel to the collection, Is it True?
Part of a national series of state alphabet books published by Sleeping Bear Press
A Sleeping Bear plant alphabet book.
(part of Sleeping Bear’s Count Across America series) a 2006-2007 Western Writers Spur Award nominee
Mr. Gagliano has captured the whimsical spirit of each vegetable character with his artistic style and poetic flare along with his own illustrations.

A small booklet of humorous poems for children

Poems about the awesome power and beauty of the Western prairie, and a tribute of its people

A collection of 77 poems encapsulating all things from the “Sunrise to Sunset”

“You’ll Be Good for Him”, a story On Attitude and Perspective, is about a handicapped boy who struggles to walk normally.

Everyone thinks seventeen-year-old Michael Biamonte is a real clown, and in 1958 who would have suspected what was really wrong, but behind the funny facade Mike’s life is out of control.

Joel has been waiting three years for his grandfather, who lives in New York State, to visit Wyoming, but Grandpa Benaducci seems lost without Grandma.

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