Tracy Badua

Tracy Badua (she/her) (www.tracybadua.com) is the award-winning Filipino American author of middle grade and young adult novels Freddie vs. the Family Curse, This is Not a Personal Statement, The Takeout, We’re Never Getting Home, Thea and the Mischief Makers, and Ghoul Summer. She is also the co-author of The Cookie Crumbles and Their Just Desserts. According to her grandmother, Tracy inherited this love of the written word from her great-grandfather, a school teacher in the Philippines. To Tracy, this means writing is in her blood, and she continues this family tradition by telling stories with her own spin in an accessible, heartfelt way.

Tracy’s work has garnered such accolades as the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Sid Fleischman Humor Award, the Children’s Literature Council of Southern California Award, multiple selections as Junior Library Guild Gold Standards, and inclusion on state book lists across the United States.

A graduate of University of California, Los Angeles, and the George Washington University Law School, Tracy worked in federal housing policy in Washington, DC, before family and the promise of perpetually warm, sunny weather drew her back to Southern California. She now lives in San Diego, where she balances writing, family time, and bites of her secret candy stash.

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Books by Tracy Badua