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Ginger Reno

Children's Book Author

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Welcome to My Writing World

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Orange Sand

 “Wren's caring heart and single-minded determination to find her mom show the frustration and anger felt by too many young people and their families over our country’s national crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW).”

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—TRACI SORELL, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF INDIAN NO MORE AND MASCOT

Orange Sand

"Find Her is a compelling novel written with sensitivity by gifted Cherokee writer Ginger Reno. In this contemporary story of Wren and her family in Cherokee Nation, Reno addresses the injustice of so many missing and murdered indigenous relatives and the heartbreak and hope that comes with not knowing. Find a place on your shelves for Find Her."

—ANDREA L. ROGERS, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR

OF MAN MADE MONSTERS

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Find Her

Middle Grade Novel

In dreams, Wren can see her again: her eyes, her hair, her smile. She can even hear her laugh. A sound Wren hasn’t heard in years. Her mother. Missing.

Some days, it seems like Wren and her grandmother are the only people still looking. Even more frustrating, Wren’s overprotective father won’t talk about it. Wren refuses to give up, though. And an opportunity to find lost pets seems like a real way to hone her detective skills. Until one of the missing pets is found hurt . . . bad.

With help from an unlikely source, Wren vows to find out who is behind this cruel act. If she can do this, maybe she can do the same for her mother’s case.

Find Her explores the crisis of missing Indigenous women from the perspective of a sensitive young Cherokee girl who yearns to find her mother, while also navigating a chilling town mystery, the complexities of family, and new friendship.

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Holiday House

The Haunted States of America

Short Story - Anthology

Fifty two different stories. Fifty two different Authors. Endless fright for all ages.

Every state has an urban legend that evokes fear and curiosity in equal parts, and we've chronicled all of these logic-defying horrors here in the Haunted States of America anthology.

Jo Creekmore and her dad have started a new life in Oklahoma - only his new job is caretaker for Timber Ridge Cemetery. A place where happenings are so creepy, the towns people call it Haunted Hollow. Is the legend true? Or just made-up stories told by her new classmates to scare her? She's about to find out...

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Macmillan

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Spirit Shadow

Picture Book

A trip to an actual replica of a Native American village in Oklahoma helps Willa—a young girl raised in a white world—realize the shadowy presence she’s always felt is the spirit of her ancestors, beckoning her to remember she is Cherokee.

Scheduled release date: Spring 2026

Holiday House

Illustrated by: Mary Lupton

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Many Ways of Being Native

Picture Book

Through dreamlike visions, a red-tailed hawk shows a young Native boy and girl that being Native isn’t about looking a certain way. On their journey, Hawk encourages them to dream big—showing there’s no limit to what the Native spirit can achieve.

Scheduled release date: Fall 2026

Charlesbridge

Illustrated by: Stay tuned!

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Ginger Reno has always been a writer – it just took a while for her to figure that out. (Her first clue should have been her family always calling her “the wordy one.”) An enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, her desire to learn about Cherokee history and culture has naturally spilled over into her writing. FIND HER, her debut novel, is part of that journey. Ginger lives in northeast Oklahoma within the Cherokee Nation and likes to spend as much time as possible on her lakefront porch with her two favorite people—her husband and their twelve-year-old German shepherd.

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