Nancy Stewart
Award Winning Author
New Release
Me And The
Missouri Moon
Scarlet has never had a best friend until she meets Cricket, a new girl in town. But she hides a dark secret that could ruin their friendship. When Scarlet learns about Maya Angelou, the poet who overcame trauma and oppression, she begins to find courage and inspiration. Will she tell Cricket the truth and risk losing her friendship? Or will she keep silent and live with the guilt? Discover how Scarlet finds her voice in this story of friendship and forgiveness.
About Nancy Stewart
Nancy is the bestselling and award winning author of the four Bella and Britt Series books for children. One Pelican at a Time and Nancy were featured in the PBS Tampa special, GulfWatch after the Deepwater Horizon Spill of 2010 and about which Pelican was written.
Katrina and Winter: Partners in Courage, is the authorized biography of Katrina Simpkins, the young girl who formed a special bond with Winter, the Dolphin.
Beulah Land is Nancy's award winning Young Adult novel, published in 2017. It earned an Indies Honorable Award, which stated in part, "Nancy Stewart has produced a tough, courageous novel that belongs on the shelf next to young-adult survival stories like Hatchet and Bridge to Terabithia."
MG novel, Me and the Missouri Moon will be launched June 9, 2024 (Monarch Press).
Best Seller
Beulah Land
Seventeen-year-old Vi Sinclair’s roots run deep in the Missouri Ozarks, where, in some areas, it can still be plenty dangerous to be a girl who likes girls. Her greatest wish is to become a veterinarian like her boss, Claire Campbell. Fitting in at school wouldn’t be so bad, either. Only one obstacle stands in the way: She may not live long enough to see her wishes fulfilled.With help from her only friend, Junior, Vi unravels a mystery that puts her in conflict with a vicious tormentor, a dog fight syndicate, and her own mother. Vi’s experience galvanizes her strength and veracity as she overcomes the paradox of mountain life, in which, even today, customs and mores seem timeless, and where a person can wake up dead simply because of being who she is.
Stewart has created a memorable and spunky main character in the young, redheaded Scarlet Burnes. A former grade school teacher, the author strikes a great balance between the joyous story of Scarlet and Cricket discovering their friendship and the more serious subjects of bullying, lying, and covering up a crime. Stewart’s pacing is pitch perfect as the book switches back and forth between the two girls acting like young kids and the horrendous crime at the center of the story. Young readers will most likely revel in the drama, rooting for Scarlet and Cricket all along the way. A tale of friendship that is funny, dramatic, and teaches the best kinds of lessons.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Praise & Reviews
Nancy Stewart writes from the heart about a young woman of true grit in Beulah Land. Violette Sinclair, shaped by the culture of the Ozarks where she struggles to create her own selfhood, will not be limited by circumstance and definition by others. Stewart tells Violette's story with grace, vigor, and charm. Violette Sinclair wins through, and so does Nancy Stewart in creating this powerful tale of a young woman's personal 'favored land of Beulah.
Gerald Duff
Author of Playing Custer and Nashville Burning
*****... Beulah Land is a brave, refreshing novel that offers a message of hope... [It is an accurate portrayal of what it's like to grow up in a place where your very existence is challenged, as well as a reminder that the willingness to push on wins the day, every time.
Beulah Land is a much needed story of queer resistance and courage in the face of bigotry and intolerance.
Forward Reviews