Marissa Moss

Marissa Moss has written more than 70 children’s books. She is the bestselling author/illustrator of the Amelia’s Notebook series and illustrator of The Eye That Never Sleeps, America’s Tea Parties, Barbed Wire Baseball, and Nurse, Soldier, Spy. Her awards include two California Book Awards, a Eureka! Nonfiction Children’s Book Award Honor, an NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, an ALA Notable, and the Cowan Writers’ Prize. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Marissa Moss's Titles

Spying on Spies How Elizebeth Smith Friedman Broke the Nazis' Secret Codes

Spying on Spies

Bestselling and award-winning author-illustrator Marissa Moss tells the gripping story of America's first female cryptanalyst, Elizebeth Smith...


Woman Who Split the Atom The Life of Lise Meitner

The Woman Who Split the Atom

Woman Who Split the Atom


Eye That Never Sleeps How Detective Pinkerton Saved President Lincoln

The Eye That Never Sleeps

This wonderfully illustrated children’s biography of the great nineteenth-century detective “evokes a mysterious and exciting old-fashioned...


America's Tea Parties Not One but Four! Boston, Charleston, New York, Philadelphia

America's Tea Parties

This account written for children is “a very fine piece of historical reclamation that broadens our understanding of the road to revolution.”...


Barbed Wire Baseball How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII

Barbed Wire Baseball

"Moss is a skilled author of historical narrative nonfiction for young readers; her tale is both well researched and well told. But it's the...


Soldier's Secret The Incredible True Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero

A Soldier's Secret

Historical fiction at its best, this novel by bestselling author Marissa Moss tells the story of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who masqueraded as a man...


Nurse, Soldier, Spy The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero

Nurse, Soldier, Spy

A thrilling picture book biography of Civil War soldier Sarah Emma Edmonds, from award-winning creators Marissa Moss and John Hendrix When Frank...


Pharaoh's Secret

The Pharaoh's Secret

Filled with intrigue, surprises, and the author's original illustrations, this novel skillfully weaves history with a personal story full of...