About the Author

Award-winning author Emily Pohl-Weary's most recent novel is Strange Times at Western High, in which 16-year-old zine-publishing sleuth Natalie Fuentes teams up with a computer hacker and a graffiti artist to solve a crime that's stumping her new high school.

Pohl-Weary's previous books include the novel A Girl Like Sugar, featuring a young woman who's haunted by her dead rock star boyfriend; a collection of poetry (Iron-on Constellations); an acclaimed anthology about female superheroes (Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers and Freaks); and a biography about her gender-bending, sci-fi writing grandmother's life (Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril).

She publishes the funky art/lit hybrid Kiss Machine, is currently writing a girl pirate comic, and working on the second Natalie Fuentes mystery: Rich Boys Rule the World.

About the Book
Trouble sticks to 16-year-old Natalie Fuentes like glue to paper. As the new kid at Western High, thereís nothing sheíd like better than to avoid making waves and instead focus on My Very Secret Life, her self-published zine. But when the schoolís reclusive caretaker is brutally attacked, Natalie is the only person who seems willing to investigate.

Armed with the clues found in her zineís clippings, pictures, and notes, and with the help of the caretakerís socially awkward son, Natalie searches for answers. Soon they are stirring up secrets others want kept, including the schoolís most infamous cool girl clique. When the trail leads to the police-shy leader of a local graffiti gang, Natalie must use all her streetwise wiles to crack the case.