[1][2][3][4] Her newest book is Speed of Life, which received starred reviews in Kirkus,[5] Publishers Weekly,[6] School Library Journal, and Booklist.

[11] Weston's first book, Girltalk: All the Stuff Your Sister Never Told You, (HarperCollins 1985), came out in four editions and was translated into many languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, Vietnamese, Romanian, Bulgarian, Indonesian, Latvian, and Polish.

[12] Her first novel, The Diary of Melanie Martin, (Knopf 2000), was translated into Italian and Czech, and became a four-book series set in Italy, Holland, Spain, and New York.

[13] Weston speaks at schools and been a guest on many national television shows, including The View, Today, Oprah, and CNN Español.

Her father, William Weston, was a writer, director, and producer of documentaries including The Soviet Woman and the Peabody-winning television show The Last Word.