Dusti Bowling
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Dusti's YA debut releases 10/13/26!
★​"This is a gut-wrenching, pulse-pounding mystery with vivid, unforgettable characters and a steadily mounting sense of dread... Perfectly paced and beautifully written, with a stunning setting and a river that becomes a character in its own right, this book belongs on every shelf serving teen readers."
- School Library Journal, starred review
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DUSTI BOWLING is the USA Today and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author of books for children of all ages.
Dusti's books have won the Reading the West Award, the Sakura Medal, a Golden Kite Honor, the William Allen White Children's Book Award, and have been nominated for over sixty state awards. Her books are Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections and have been named best books of the year by the Chicago Public Library, Kirkus, Bank Street College of Education, A Mighty Girl, Shelf Awareness, and many more.
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Dusti currently lives in Arizona with her husband and three daughters.
"I am an entirely insignificant event in the life of this cactus."
Literary Agent
Shannon Hassan
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