Danielle

Louise

DeFauw

 

A dedicated writer of middle grade and young adult books filled with healing, hope, and heart.

About Danielle

 

Danielle L. DeFauw, Ph.D., is Professor of Reading and Language Arts in the College of Education, Health, and Human Services at the University of Michigan – Dearborn. Her sincerest passion is writing middle grade and young adult novels filled with hope about tough topics. She loves the power of story in all its forms and is committed to write the kinds of books she empowers teachers to use to support their elementary and secondary students’ literacy development. 

Danielle’s book, Engaging Teachers, Students, and Families in K–6 Writing Instruction: Developing Effective Flipped Writing Pedagogies, published by Routledge in 2020, details her K-6 writing methods course designed to support preservice teachers’ development of their teacher-writer voices and use of authentic writing instruction to support students’ writing development. Co-chair of the University’s former Young Authors’ Festival, she has published over 30 articles, namely two published by the International Literacy Association exploring motivational factors inherent in year-long author visits and writing contests. In 2022, she published an article exploring student-directed interviews with Chris Crowe, YA author of Mississippi Trial, 1955. Currently, she is co-researching the Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature to explore the award’s impact on the quality of children’s literature since 2009.

Although she has experienced success with academic writing, she will never give up on her childhood dream of becoming a children’s book author. Danielle cannot wait to use her literacy expertise within author visit opportunities to motivate children to write their stories.

Works in Progress

VICTORY STUMBLES

Grief-stricken, thirteen-year-old Sarah must abandon her dog to obey her alcoholic father, but she leaves the dog with the grandfather-like neighbor Dad blames for Mom’s death

ZERO’S HERO

Lonely, thirteen-year-old Patrick—blamed for his parents’ divorce and abandoned by his grandparents—feels powerless to protect his unloving mom from her new police officer boyfriend.

 

YOU NEVER KNOW

THE LAST TIME

Fourteen-year-old Evelyn learns to pilot hot air balloons with her grandfather and discovers in the air that he has undiagnosed Alzheimer’s Disease.

SCRAP WISHES

Sixteen-year-old Evelyn finds her biological father to fulfill her grandfather’s dying wish, but Dad’s life is too full for one more kid, especially the one he ignored.

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