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Hi! I write fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults. I am also a compulsive walker, a chicklet wrangler and a lover of cheese and cheap chocolate. Thanks for dropping by!

News!

REAL MERMAIDS DON’T WEAR TOE RINGS is a

2011 Crystal Kite Member Choice Award Finalist

From Publisher’s Marketplace:

CHILDRENS: MIDDLE GRADE
REAL MERMAIDS DON’T WEAR TOE RINGS author Hélène Boudreau’s next two books in the Real Mermaids series, about a plus-sized, aquaphobic teenager with mermaid tendencies, again to Rebecca Frazer at Jabberwocky, by Lauren MacLeod at The Strothman Agency (World English).

AUDIO RIGHTS:
Helene Boudreau’s REAL MERMAIDS DON’T WEAR TOE RINGS, to Brad Rose at Dreamscape Media, by Anne Landa at Sourcebooks.

CHILDREN’S: MIDDLE GRADE
Helene Boudreau’s REAL MERMAIDS DON’T WEAR TOE RINGS, about an aquaphobic mer-girl trying to balance the drama of two-legged teenage life with her quest to rescue her mermaid mother from really scary mer-dudes, to Rebecca Frazer at Jabberwocky, for publication in Fall 2010, by Lauren MacLeod at The Strothman Agency (World).

CHILDREN’S: PICTURE BOOK
Helene Boudreau’s I DARE YOU NOT TO YAWN, an anti-bedtime story testing the theory of whether yawns are contagious, to Mary Lee Donovan at Candlewick, by Lauren MacLeod at The Strothman Agency (World).

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