She uses her writing to raise awareness of this inhumane practice, with the goal of ending the slaughter of America's horses and burros through transport to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico. When she's not reading or writing, you'll find Emily caring for her horses, dogs and family on a ranch in rural Arizona, where the desert's tranquil beauty and rich wildlife often enter into her poetry and writing.Įmily's other passion is saving equines from slaughter.

IF YOU FIND ME has been translated and published in Canada, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Korea, Taiwan, Italy, Brazil, Hungary, Turkey, Vietnam, and Braille. IF YOU FIND ME was also a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Books of 2013 in the Best Debut Author and Best Young Adult Fiction categories, and was a finalist for the German Children's Literature Prize 2015, and a finalist for the German Buxeholder Bulle Award 2015. IF YOU FIND ME has also been nominated and included in numerous state awards/high school master reading lists, amongst those in: IF YOU FIND ME, a Carnegie Medal 2014 longlister and a Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2014 finalist, is also a YALSA BFYA selection of 2014, has earned starred reviews from Booklist, Kirkus, and School Library Journal, was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice for June 2013, an Irish Times Editors’ Pick for 2013, an Editor’s Pick for UK’s The Bookseller 2013, a Booklist Youth Editors' Choice for 2013, and a Booklist Top Ten Pick of 2014. Her novel, IF YOU FIND ME, released globally to high praise and critical acclaim through St. There's never a time she's without a book. a dark past that hides many a secret, including the reason Jenessa hasn't spoken a word in over a year.Emily is a writer, a poet, and a lover of books. Now, Carey must face the truth of why her mother abducted her ten years ago, while haunted by a past that won't let her go. Suddenly, the girls are taken from the woods and thrust into a bright and perplexing new world of high school, clothes and boys.

Until that one fateful day their mother disappears for good, and two strangers arrive. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey's younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember.

If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch