Hinton in sixth grade, which made them decide that they wanted to start writing for children.
[3][4] Their second novel and first young adult book, Mousetraps, tells the story of a teen dealing with homophobia and bullying after her childhood best friend who suddenly disappeared turns up again.
[8][9][10] Bluefish was a nominee for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award in 2013[11] and the California Young Reader Medal for Middle School/Junior High in 2015.
[14] Schmatz's fifth novel, Lizard Radio, is set in a world just slightly tilted from our own, where teens have to commit to a gender and "benders" are dealt with harshly.
[15] In the novel, a fifteen-year-old bender teen struggles in a culture that tries to define everyone by strict binaries.