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Working in homeless shelters while researching what later turned into award-winning children’s books brought author/ex-New York editor/filmmaker Cristina Salat a new appreciation of family...and what it takes to create healthy ones. Her writing, published by Bantam Books, Harper Collins, Prentice Hall, Dell Yearling, Sidewalk Revolution Press, Children’s Television Workshop, Charlesbridge, Masquerade Books, Green Flame Omnimedia & many more, includes the novels: THE SKIN OF WATER: Defending The Dreamcatchers (one first nation young woman’s quest from the mesas of New Mexico to the streets of San Francisco seeking a life different than the one that seems destined to be her fate), ESOTERICA and PARADISE FOUND which are sequels to the award-winning LIVING IN SECRET (＂courageous, thought-provoking＂ Publisher’s Weekly). It also includes illustrated children’s books such as STEP-WHALES, PEANUT’S EMERGENCY, WITZEL’S WISH, and the forthcoming JADE THE MAGNIFICENT; compilations like HOME IS WHERE YOU’RE HAPPY and COMMUNITY: THE COMPLETE MISSING MANUAL; plus the Slims (＂potency in a precise package celebrating THE Moment in Time!＂): SUMMER FRIENDS, AFTER TITANIC, AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, MAGIC IN HAWAII, RABONCHONE, TIME OF THE BEAR, JENNY: A TALE OF TWO REALITIES, HAWAII: HEAVEN OR HELL?, GOING HOME, HUNGRY WOLF & THE THREE CAPABLE FEMMES, WITCH WORK, and WHO WILL LEAD?