New Series + TV Option?

I've been a busy little elf, but today must be Christmas day because one of the projects I've been working on in Santa's workshop can finally be revealed! A new series is coming your way this summer, and the rights for it have already been optioned by Lion Forge. :-)

This series, created by Anna McCleery and written by me, is like Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, but with total Magic Treehouse vibes. You are going to love every kid in these books, including the ones you're supposed to hate. And who wouldn't investigate a mysterious mailbox in the woods?

Official back cover text below. I can't wait for you to get your hands on this.

A school election. A mysterious mailbox. And a letter from . . . Cleopatra?

Middle school is so weird. That’s the thought running through Nina Warren-West’s head in her first weeks at Ada Lovelace Middle School. Little does she know, it’s about to get even weirder. 

Nina is determined to help her best friend Maya win the race for 6th grade representative. But when she uses her robotics skills to spy on Maya’s opponent, the girls wind up in detention. There, they are asked to write a letter to a woman from history. Nina pours her heart out to Cleopatra, and instead of throwing the letter away so her parents don’t find it, she slips it into a battered old mailbox she and Maya find in the woods. It was all just a game . . . until a giant scroll arrives at Nina’s house, signed by Cleopatra herself!

Do the girls really have a pen pal from 2,000 years ago? Will their friend Zoe ever speak to them again? Why is their science teacher acting so oddly? And what on Earth is a time taco?