My new book is out today. ❤️

Thanks for celebrating with me!

Hi friend,

Today’s not an official letter—it’s just a note to let you know that my latest middle grade novel hits shelves today.

If you didn’t know I wrote fiction for HarperCollins, I don't blame you. I don’t tangle my lanes very often. I frequently bemoan the fact that I didn’t use different names for all of my writing projects from the beginning, but c’est la vie—there’s nothing to be done about it now. I feel itchy letting my brands collide. They feel like two separate worlds.

And yet, they’re not.

Because while my books aren’t faith-based, they are about God. They’re about courage, and grief, and redemption. They’re about digging deep inside yourself to find a truth bigger than yourself. I write as a way of making sense of the world, and to give kids companions on the rocky, terrifying, beautiful journey of life on earth.

Anyway. I think you or a middle grader in your life might enjoy Take It From the Top. Grab it wherever books are sold, or check it out from your local library. If you do, please let me know! It’s also available on audio wherever audiobooks are purchased.

Eowyn Becker has waited all year to attend her sixth summer at Lamplighter Lake Summer Camp. Here, she’s not in the shadow of her Broadway-star older brother; she’s a stellar performer in her own right. Here, the pain of her mom’s death can’t reach her, and she gets to reunite with her best friend, Jules Marrigan—the only person in the world who understands her.

But when she gets to camp, everything seems wrong. The best-friend reunion Eowyn had been dreaming of doesn’t go as planned. Jules will barely even look at Eowyn, let alone talk to her, and Eowyn has no idea why.

Well, maybe she does…

There are two sides to every story, and if you want to understand this one, you’ll need to hear both. Told in a series of alternating chapters that dip back to past summers, the girls’ story will soon reveal how Eowyn and Jules went from being best friends to fierce foils. Can they mend ways before the curtains close on what was supposed to be the best summer of their lives?

In Him Through Her,

Claire