Ellen Klages Books in Order

Ellen Klages traces the history of Harbin Hot Springs from its Indigenous past through colonization to its development as a New Age retreat. Her account draws on research conducted while living in the intentional community.

Children explore science through a year of activities drawn from the Exploratorium museum. Monthly projects, a secret-code wheel, and a Moon-O-Matic encourage hands-on discovery, with a flexible format that lets families begin at any time.

In 1943, eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan joins her father at the secret Los Alamos research project. Amid wartime secrecy and scientific work, she navigates life in an unfamiliar community and a developing friendship with another girl.

These stories follow children and adults as ordinary lives open onto unsettling or magical possibilities. Family relationships, childhood wonder, time travel, and unexpected transformations expose both the comfort and the strangeness hidden within familiar places.

Living with the Gordon family in postwar New Mexico, Dewey Kerrigan faces questions about belonging and her scientific interests. While the adults disagree over rockets and atomic weapons, Dewey and Suze navigate changing expectations of girls.

In 1940 San Francisco, six women's lives intersect across the city's artistic, queer, and unconventional communities. Their search for connection brings love and danger into a world where magic, science, and art overlap.

Excluded from Little League because she is a girl, gifted pitcher Katy Gordon decides to challenge the rules. In 1957, she researches forgotten women baseball players to prove that girls have a place in the game.

Four generations of an African American family form enduring ties to Florida’s mysterious Wakulla Springs. Their lives unfold alongside movie-making, local legends, and the restrictions of Jim Crow, as an extraordinary landscape holds both human history and uncanny possibilities.

Children, lonely women, and unexpected friends encounter magic in places ranging from a penny arcade to Mars. These stories explore forbidden love, rebellious imaginations, and everyday choices that open doors into worlds stranger than their inhabitants expect.