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By Christian McKay Heidicker
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018. 298 pgs.

Phoebe, fifteen, the daughter of a famous mother and unearthly father, suddenly begins experiencing radical changes as she enters one scene after another from 1950s and 60s science fiction movies.

By Christian McKay Heidicker
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016. 314 pgs.

Sixteen-year-old Jaxon is being committed to video game rehab ten minutes after meeting a girl. A living, breathing girl named Serena, who not only laughed at his jokes but actually kinda sorta seemed excited when she agreed to go out with him. Jason's first date. Ever. In rehab, Jaxon can't blast his way through galaxies to reach her. He can't slash through armies to kiss her sweet lips. Instead, he has four days to earn one million points by learning real-life skills. And he'll do whatever it takes; lie, cheat, steal, even learn how to cross-stitch; in order to make it to his date. If all else fails, Jaxon will have to bare his soul to the other teens in treatment, confront his mother's absence, and maybe admit that it's more than video games that stand in the way of a real connection.

By Christian McKay Heidicker
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2020. 335 pgs.

Wally Cooper and Arthur Benton, who resorted to thievery to pay off family debts, unwittingly find themselves at the center of a battle between the Fae and the mages tasked with protecting humanity.

By Christian McKay Heidicker
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2021. 330 pgs.

Twelve-year-old reformed thieves Arthur and Wally's determination to succeed as Novitiates of the Wardens of Weirdwood pits them against the Order of Eldar and the ghosts they released for their own gain.

By Christian McKay Heidicker
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2019. 341 pgs.

A collection of six connected stories that follows a group of fox kits as they fight to survive in an unforgiving wilderness                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    



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