Children’s books

For the last decade, I’ve been writing books for children. Here are descriptions of some of the stories I’ve written. I hope to announce their publication one day soon.


collage of gold nugget, photo kids in cave, torn map with octopus image

Claire Holcomb
and The Secret of Weaverville

by Emily Miles Terry
Middle grade fantasy, in process

When Claire Holcomb and her family move to Weaverville for her father’s cartography work, Claire is determined to help her father put the tiny town on the map—something no other cartographer has been able to accomplish. But Claire never expected that the reason Weaverville hasn’t been mapped is because a dreamkeeper is trapped in the town’s abandoned gold mine and a secret society of Celestial Cartographers have battled to keep Weaverville off the map for centuries to hide the dreamkeeper. Claire must figure out a way to stop her father from completing his map and free the dreamkeeper once and for all to prevent the death of dreams everywhere.


collage of torn storybook page, photo of Little Mermaid statue, and California postcard

Tove Hansen Saves the
Little Mermaid

by Emily Miles Terry
Historical middle grade fiction, in process

Tove Hansen is a spunky Danish American girl living in Southern California in 1955 obsessed with Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales and winning at stickball. But when someone steals the head of the iconic Little Mermaid statue in Denmark, Tove embarks on a wild journey and learns that truth and memories are just as important as fairy tales and made up stories.


Sarah pilots the Panama Canal

collage of Panama Canal images, canal map, and photo of first female pilot

by Emily Miles Terry
Picture book, in process

The true story of the first female boat pilot in the Panama Canal.