Janelle Meraz Hooper

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2002
  • Latest Book:
    November 2014
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Full Series List in Order

The Turtle Trilogy

1 - A Three-Turtle Summer (Sep-2002)
2 - As Brown as I Want: The Indianhead Diaries (Sep-2003)
3 - Custer and His Naked Ladies (Oct-2007)

Book List in Order: 9 titles

  • A Three-Turtle Summer

    The Turtle Trilogy - 1

    A Three-Turtle SummerBy Janelle Meraz HooperFort Sill, Oklahoma, 1949...Grace and her five-year-old daughter Glory are living through A Three?Turtle Summer-a summer so hot that the turtles are dying. It's also the summer that Grace's mother and siste...

  • As Brown as I Want: The Indianhead Diaries

    The Turtle Trilogy - 2

    The summer of 1952, Lawton, Oklahoma...Eight-year-old Glory has a father who's taken out a $50,000 accidental death insurance policy on her--now he's spending the summer trying to collect.

    In his first attempt, he throws Glory to the snakes, but a...

  • Free Pecan Pie and Other Chick Stories

    Free Pecan Pie and Other Chick StoriesWhat's a chick story? It's a story with no drugs, bombs, or spies who have numbers instead of names. And clean. It's gotta be clean. Spend some time with Free Pecan Pie, and its other stories and shorts like Elvi...

  • Custer and His Naked Ladies

    The Turtle Trilogy - 3

    Custer and His Naked Ladies by Janelle Meraz Hooper When her husband unexpectedly dumps her, Glory boards an Oklahoma-bound plane at the Sea-Tac Airport. On her way to the ticket counter, she takes the framed photo of her husband out of her gym bag a...

  • Bears in the Hibiscus

    Mary, in her late thirties, is starting over with her daughter, Kate. Unimpressed with the single men she has met, she is resisting the dating scene. She tells her friend, Roxanne, she doesn't need a man. What she needs is fiscal stability. When her ...

  • Boogie, Boots & Cherry Pie

    When Mike, the great guy that Lily meets at her company’s St. Patrick’s Day party takes her home he discovers she lives on the third floor of The Zoo, a well known apartment building that caters to tenants who have exotic pets. Unfortunately, one...

  • Old Joe's Pink Cadillac

    Before Old Joe’s best friend left for Vietnam he dropped his pink 1959 Cadillac Coupe de Ville off at Joe’s for safekeeping. The old car was in bad shape and when his friend didn’t come back Joe made it his mission to restore her. Most night...

  • The Slum Resort

    …Henry arrived at the ramshackle trailer park in the middle of the night, thinking no one would notice he was being dropped off by a limousine. They noticed. The other tenants, all connected by recycled CBs, were awakened by the sound of an expensi...

  • Boogie, Boots, & Cherry Pie

    Boogie, Boots, & Cherry Pie Janelle Meraz Hooper When the great guy that Lily meets at her company’s St. Patrick’s Day party takes her home he discovers she lives at The Zoo, an apartment building that caters to tenants who have exotic pets. Unfo...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Janelle Meraz Hooper has published 9 books.

Janelle Meraz Hooper does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Boogie, Boots, & Cherry Pie, was published in November 2014.

The first book by Janelle Meraz Hooper, A Three-Turtle Summer, was published in September 2002.

Yes. Janelle Meraz Hooper has 1 series.
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