Gigi Amateau

Macadoo of the Maury River

Hardcover | 192 pages | Candlewick | Juvenile Fiction - Animals - Horses; Juvenile Fiction - Family; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Friendship
978-0-7636-3766-8 (0-7636-3766-1)

August 6, 2013 | $18.00



A sequel to Chancey of the Maury River, this heart-tugging story focuses on Macadoo — the gentle giant of the Maury River Stables.

When Macadoo is just a colt, he challenges his father — a huge Belgian stallion — in order to protect his dam. From that moment on, Mac knows that...

Come August, Come Freedom

Hardcover | 240 pages | Candlewick | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Prejudice & Racism; Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - African American; Juvenile Fiction - Historical - United States - 19th Century
978-0-7636-4792-6 (0-7636-4792-6)

September 11, 2012 | $20.00



An 1800 insurrection planned by a literate slave known as "Prosser’s Gabriel" inspires a historical novel following one extraordinary man’s life.

In a time of post-Revolutionary fervor in Richmond, Virginia, an imposing twenty-four-year-old slave named Gabriel, known for his courage and intellect, plotted a rebellion involving thousands of African- American freedom seekers...

Chancey of the Maury River

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Candlewick | Juvenile Fiction - Animals - Horses; Juvenile Fiction - Lifestyles (Farm Life)
978-0-7636-4523-6 (0-7636-4523-0)

March 9, 2010 | $9.00



"The sentimental horse story is revived to magnificent effect in this moving novel. . . . Winds to a stirring finish." — THE HORN BOOK

On the night that Chancey is born, a "fire star" gallops across the sky, a signal that a great horse has entered the world. But it will...

A Certain Strain of Peculiar

Hardcover | 272 pages | Candlewick | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Adolescence; Juvenile Fiction - Girls & Women; Juvenile Fiction - Nature & the Natural World
978-0-7636-3009-6 (0-7636-3009-8)

April 28, 2009 | $18.50



This is the last time Mary Harold will have a panic attack at school when kids call her "the grossest girl." If Mom won’t move back to Alabama, her thirteen-year-old daughter will just have to drive herself 691 miles to Grandma Ayma’s farmhouse — and a whole new life. With Ayma’s...

Claiming Georgia Tate

Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Candlewick | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Physical & Emotional Abuse; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations
978-0-7636-3311-0 (0-7636-3311-9)

April 10, 2007 | $9.99



"It’s rare and exciting to discover a talented new writer like Gigi Amateau." — Judy Blume

Twelve-year-old Georgia Tate wishes she could stay home in Mississippi forever with her preacher granddaddy and her best friend Ginger. After losing her nana to a heart attack, she desperately wishes she could tell her granddaddy...

Claiming Georgia Tate

Hardcover | 208 pages | Candlewick | Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Physical & Emotional Abuse; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations
978-0-7636-2339-5 (0-7636-2339-3)

May 24, 2005 | $22.99



When her beloved grandmother dies, a young girl's minister grandfather unwittingly sends her to live with an abusive father in this rich, wrenchingly honest southern novel infused with humor and heart.

Twelve-year-old Georgia Tate wishes she could stay home forever with her no-nonsense nana, her preacher granddaddy, and her sassy friend Ginger...