Laura Resau

Indigo Notebook

1 - The Indigo Notebook (Oct-2009)
2 - The Ruby Notebook (Sep-2010)
3 - The Jade Notebook (Feb-2012)

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  What the Moon Saw
  

  • Sep-2006
  • / General Fiction
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  An intimate, award winning story of immigrants and their families, the borders they cross, and the ties that bind us all together.Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna's name means "clear moon" in Spanish. But lately, her life has felt anything but clear. A ...

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  Red Glass
  

  • Sep-2007
  • / General Fiction
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  ONE NIGHT SOPHIE and her parents are called to a hospital where Pedro, 6-year-old Mexican boy, is recovering from dehydration. Crossing the border into Arizona with a group of Mexicans and a coyote, or guide, Pedro and his parents faced such harsh co...

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  The Indigo Notebook
  

  • Oct-2009
  • / General Fiction
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  Indigo Notebook - 1
  

  Zeeta's life with her free-spirited mother, Layla, is anything but normal. Every year Layla picks another country she wants to live in. This summer they're in Ecuador, and Zeeta is determined to convince her mother to settle down. Zeeta makes friends...

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  Star in the Forest
  

  • Mar-2010
  • / General Fiction
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  Zitlally's family is undocumented, and her father has just been arrested for speeding and deported back to Mexico. As her family waits for him to return--they've paid a coyote to guide him back across the border--they receive news that he and the coy...

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  The Ruby Notebook
  

  • Sep-2010
  • / General Fiction
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  Indigo Notebook - 2
  

  Sixteen-year-old Zeeta and her flighty English-teaching mom, Layla, have traveled the world together, settling in a different country every year, making a whole new set of friends and adopting new customs. This year, they've chosen to live in Aix-en-...

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  The Queen of Water
  

  • Mar-2011
  • / General Fiction
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  Born in an Andean village in Ecuador, Virginia lives with her large family in a small, earthen-walled dwelling. In her village of indígenas, it is not uncommon to work in the fields all day, even as a child, or to be called a longa tonta -- stupid I...

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  The Jade Notebook
  

  • Feb-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  Indigo Notebook - 3
  

  Down-to-earth Zeeta and her flighty mom, Layla, have spent years traveling the globe and soaking up everything each new culture has to offer. Now they've settled in the beachside town of Mazunte, Mexico, where Zeeta's true love, Wendell, has an inter...

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  The Lightning Queen
  

  • Nov-2015
  • / General Fiction
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  Nothing exciting happens on the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico. There's no electricity, no plumbing, no cars, just day after day of pasturing goats. And now, without his sister and mother, eleven-year-old Teo's life feels even more b...

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  Tree of Dreams
  

  • Mar-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  Dear Coco and Leo, I miss you! We all miss you! The whole forest misses you! I hear their thanks and wishes in my dreams. I hope you do, too. Prepare for a journey into a world filled with what so many crave -- the sweet savoring of a chocolate d...

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  Virch
  

  • Jun-2024
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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  Mind-bending, fast-paced YA sci-fi with heart.In the year 2154, virtual reality is an enticing escape... but just for the privileged. For others, like sixteen-year-old Liv, reality means living by a contaminated bay that's sickened her little sister ...

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  The Alchemy of Flowers
  

  • Aug-2025
  • / Women's Fiction
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  A woman takes a job at a secretive French garden to avoid reminders of children; there she meets a mysterious girl needing help. This debut adult novel blends the charm of The Secret Garden and magic realism of Where the Forest Meets the Stars."Here ...

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Award-Winning Books by Laura Resau

The Indigo Notebook
2010 Colorado Book Award -- Young Adult Literature
Red Glass
2008 Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature -- Children/Young Adult
What the Moon Saw
2007 Colorado Book Award -- Young Adult Literature