Welcome to The Steeping Leaf on the web! Annie, Genna, and Zoe hope you'll enjoy the site. To order The Teashop Girls online, please visit your local Indie Bound bookstore, Powell's Books, or Amazon.com. 

To read an excerpt, click here. 

For some wonderful Teashop Girls tea party activities, click here.

Dear Reader,

Being in middle school can be pretty rough. Everything about everyone is changing so fast. And there are so many things to worry about all at once: school, family, crushes, jobs, and last but definitely not least, friends.

Annie, Genna, and Zoe have been best friends forever. But with eighth grade ending, the girls are beginning to grow up and grow apart. When Annie takes a job at her grandmother's teashop, things begin to look up. In between whipping up chai lattes for customers, tasting new teas, and attempting to catch the attention of her barista boy crush, Annie is finally beginning to feel as sophisticated as her best friends. But an eviction notice spells trouble for the Steeping Leaf. Annie's ready with her multistep Save the Leaf Action Plan, but will it be enough? Can Annie rally her friends to save the Leaf before the teashop and the Teashop Girls are history?

EVENTS QUICK REFERENCE! (for details, click on the Events Calendar page)

Library author visit, Palmyra Public library, WI 1:30pm 07.07.09

Summer Reading Program author afternoon, West Bend Public Library, 2pm 07.17.09

Library author visit, Port Washington Public Library, WI 07.30.09

Summer author visit, Oconto Falls, WI 07.31.09

Good girls author discussion panel, Mt. Mary college, Milwaukee 11.04.09

Laura Schaefer author night, 6:30pm, Middleton Public Library, 11.16.09

Tea with the author event, George Watts tea house, Milwaukee WI 11.09