Sarah Dale is an author, mom, daughter, step-mom, pack member, friend, dog-walker, cat-appreciator, library book balancer, word lover, thought thinker and picture-taker living in Lincoln, Nebraska, just generally trying to get things done.
In addition to the Zodiac Cusp Kids series, Sarah has authored the fantasy novel We Could Be Heroes, co-authored the suspense thriller Collision Course with Welsh author David Owain Hughes, and her short story, “Something Old, Something New, Something Cursed, Something Blue” is featured in the collection of horror short stories What Goes Around.
Sarah has also edited several novels for publication. Prior to working in publishing, she spent years working with teens at a busy public library, creating library programming, leading book clubs, and teaching writing workshops. Her article “Teens and Community in the Public Library: The Algebra of ‘Pack’” was published in Nebraska Libraries – Volume 4, No. 2 (May 2016). She is the recipient of the 1989 Victor Contoski award for Poetry Interpretation.
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The adventures of the Zodiac Cusp Kids are laid to rest in the raw, cold February of 1989. The Portal has been spilling out more goop and increasingly dangerous goons for the past two years, and it’s getting worse. On top of that, the kids are facing a mysterious and charismatic figure from David’s…
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It’s the summer of 1987. Angie’s summer intensive on the mysteries of Agatha Christie has her seeing clues everywhere she looks, and there are plenty of clues to be sorted through when one of the Witches in Lorrain’s coven is killed. Was it an accident that Shelly’s car crashed into Dead Man’s Run?…
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Two years have passed since Angie, David, and Jenny returned from their star-hopping adventure and learned the identity of the Guardian. Now sophomores in high school, the kids are trying to juggle saving their hometown while also having social lives, playing on sports teams, acting in plays, and…
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Just over a week has passed since Angie, David and Jenny said goodbye to Barb and Alesta, the German Shepherd pup. David and Jenny convince Jon and Angie to come to a dance at the neighborhood Rec Center and mysterious things begin to appear. Jenny’s prophecies guide them to a magical artifact that…
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It's a Friday afternoon in the spring of 1985 when two girls from Whitehall, the neighborhood group home for troubled kids, approach Angie at school. Crystal's little sister, Desiree, has disappeared. Her foster parents and the police think she is just another runaway. Crystal doesn't believe it,…
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The summer of 1983 is over. After weeks of healing from their first adventure and some specialized basic training with Mr. Rakow, Angie, Jenny, and David are feeling prepared for the horrors junior high will inevitably bring. The final weekend of vacation, a bizarre tornado tears through Lincoln,…
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It's 1983. Angie, Jenny, and David are watching MTV, riding bikes, and looking forward to their summer vacation before they start junior high school. Lincoln, Nebraska is a pretty quiet place to grow up, and when the kids take off at 5:00 am to deliver newspapers on Jenny’s route, they aren’t…
