Amelia's back. This time she's taken her notebook on the road for a summer-time family trip to the Grand Canyon, Death Valley, and Yosemite National Park. Cooped up in the car with her obnoxious sister, Cleo, Amelia has plenty to write about--from the not-so-mysterious Mysterious Place to old-fashioned gas pumps to meeting a boy named Mako. Full-color illustrations.
Marissa Moss has been telling stories and drawing pictures to go with them for as long as she can remember. She sent her first book to publishers when she was nine, but it wasn't very good and it never got published. She didn't try again until she was a grown-up, but since then she hasn't stopped.
The idea for the first Amelia's Notebook came from the notebook Moss kept when she was a kid. Amelia is a lot like her and the things that happen to Amelia really happened to Marissa (mostly).
Along with Amelia, Moss has created many characters and is especially drawn to history. Historical books allows her to imagine what it's like to be alive in a different place at a completely different time. And then there are the Max Disaster books which allow her to play with scientific experiments, inventions, and comic strips.
