Children’s & Middle Grade
Nora The Teenage Norad
Nora: The Teenage NORAD –Interconnected contemporary projects tracing a girl, a frog, and a creative empire built out of childhood love, resilience, and imagination. Nora is Mares (Also was Katherine), now a high school student secretly writing for the school newspaper, holding up a mirror to students who misjudge their peers and revealing the stories beneath the surface. She and Joel ( Also was Jose and Eruwick)—the boy who once caught her a frog when she was nine—share a deep soulship. After a painful misunderstanding pulls them apart, they reunite years later when Joel creates a monumental animated character named “Gabner.” Their reconnection is tender, complicated, and slow, as they untangle the past and decide what their shared future might be.
M.B. Meloy
M.B. Meloy is a California author, multi-genre writer, and former teacher whose novels and children’s books blend history, spiritual realism, and near-future imagination. Trained under a Buddhist monk in her late teens, she folds contemplative practice and questions of universal energy into her stories. Her works include Eyes on Salinas, The Crossing: The Chronicles of Another World, The Incredible Tales of Loretto the Great, Gabner: The Frog King, Nora: The Teenage NORAD, Pale Codes, and 8 Children.






