Children's Books by Linda Salisbury

Linda Salisbury has written book 7 in the Bailey Fish Adventure series.
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The award-winning series features Bailey Fish, 11, who lives with her environmentalist grandmother, Sugar, while her mother is working for a year or more in Costa Rica. Bailey misses her mom, and her former home in Florida, but life takes surprising and wonderful turns near Lake Anna, Virginia. Her new friends, Noah and Fred Keswick (both 12), live on the farm next door, which their parents have fixed up as a country inn. The boys are adopted and homeschooled, and the Keswicks become family for Sparrow, a foster child.

Guests bring their own mysteries, troubles and adventures. What Bailey expects, is never quite what happens!

Books in the series are sequential, but can be read independently. Each contains embedded history, lots of action, and contemporary issues that appeal to boys and girls. Books also contain discussion questions, Web sites, book resources, glossary and photographs and maps.

Linda Salisbury, a former newspaper columnist and editor is a freelance writer and a senior editor at Tabby House. Contact her for speaking engagements. In addition to the Bailey Fish Adventure series, she is also the author of Mudd Saves the Earth, for ages 7 and up. Mudd is illustrated by cartoonist Joe Kohl.

Linda Salisbury recieves a gold medal for Best Children's Fiction for "The Mysterious Jamestown Suitcase," and a silver for "Ghost of the Chicken Coop Theater" in theFlorida Publishers Association 2009 President's Book Award Contest, judged by librarians. (Left) Betsy Lampe, FPA executive director, (center) Salisbury, and(right), Chris Angermann, FPA president.

2007 Forida Publishers Association Award

The Thief of Keswick Inn won the Florida Publishers Association President's Pick 2007 award in the FPA President's Book Award contest. Pictured are Florida Publishers Association President Frank Gromling, author Linda Salisbury, and Betsy Lampé, executive director of the FPA, in Fort Lauderdale on September 15, 2007.

The Mysterious Jamestown Suitcase is a bronze medal winner in the 2007 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards in the Pre-teen fiction category and was a finalist in the 2008 ForeWord magazine Book of the Year Contest.

Trouble in Contrary Woods was named a finalist in the 2010 Eric Hoffer Awards for excellence in independent publishing.

No Sisters Sisters Club earned a silver finalist distinction in FPA’s 2008 Best Children’s Fiction category.

ForeWord magazine, March 2005: "This stimulating mystery (The Wild Women of Lake Anna) contains a novel historical twist that plays into the main character's dramatic need for acceptance as she draws upon her inner strength in some unexpected ways. ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year

. . . In keeping with the latest trend in fiction books, the author seeks to educate as well as entertain. . . . This well-crafted, fast-paced novel . . . will resonate with every reader who has ever longed for acceptance or struggled with survival in the throes of fear and uncertainty." Charisse Floyd

"Stolen artifacts pale next to the psychological wallop of this new installment (Book 4, The Mysterious Jamestown Suitcase) in the popular Bailey Fish Adventure series. . . Social issues add texture . . .showing Salisbury's in-depth awareness of the complexities of growing up." Elizabeth Breau, ForeWord magazine.

"The Wild Women of Lake Anna is a wonderful book for independent intermediate readers or as a teacher read-aloud. Readers will be enthralled with the very believable plot that mirrors their lives in so many ways. Each chapter leaves the reader hanging . . . eager to continue reading to see what next happens to Bailey Fish. This book provides many opportunities for teachers to integrate Social Studies curriculum, environmental issues as well as character education. This book is sure to engage even the most reluctant readers." Joann Winkler, Teacher of the Year, Charlotte County, Florida

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