Books by André Swartley
Welcome to Moon Bog, where the light is always wrong, and the witch can sing anyone to sleep.
This collection of poems, plays, and illustrations explores the porous boundaries between nature, culture, folklore, and dreams.
You'll get lost in Moon Bog, but whether you stay that way is up to you.
The Ballad of Moon Bog
The Wretched Afterlife
of Odetta Koop
Grover Solomon Yoder is afraid of everything. Yet when his parents decide to sell the house where he grew up, he returns home to banish the spirit of Odetta Koop, who tormented him throughout his childhood. But Odetta won't go easily. Grover Solomon will only have a chance against her if he can reconnect with his oldest friend, Leon Martin, and find the courage to confront his own past.
Leon Martin and the
Fantasy Girl
Leon Martin is leaving home for the first time and trying to leave behind his obsession with video games as well. That's when a character from his favorite game shows up in real life. And she needs help.
Leon Martin and the Fantasy Girl was a First Place Category Winner in the 2013 Dante Rossetti Awards for Young Adult fiction.
Imogene Cornell’s comfortable and predictable life plunges into chaos when a stranger tells her that she has the power to prevent an impending global war. But she is not the only person the stranger has visited. Soon Imogene, along with three other women and one very unusual artist, finds herself at the center of a worldwide peace movement, and she could never have predicted that peacemaking would be so dangerous.
Americanus Rex was a finalist in the Fiction category of the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Americanus Rex
Cliff's life has been a series of losses. By the time he is eighteen, he has lost his ability to speak, his home, and both of his parents. The only constants in his life are his hair stylist, his bizarre and awful cousin, and his tyrannous aunt.
Flowing seamlessly between gut-wrenching and hilarious, The Island of Misfit Toys is an unapologetically human story of three individuals seeking the same redemption.
The Island of Misfit Toys was a finalist for the 2006 Best Books of Indiana.