Award-winning Author.
Social-Emotional Learning Expert.
Humanities adjunct.
The Secret Song of Shelby Rey
NEW! From SparkPress/Simon & Schuster
A story of love, music, addiction, and self-discovery. For fans of Gayle Forman and Sarah Dessen, a musically gifted teen in 2008 Los Angeles gets caught up in the tumultuous world of a narcissistic rock star and his brilliant but herion-addicted bandmate.
A Song for the Road
“Creativity, Victory, Heart, Discipline-four words that mean so much to the main character and a common thread that the author weaves throughout. This is an entertaining tale about love and family and how it looks a little different for everyone.”
—The Eric Hoffer Book Awards
Dream Up Now: The Teen Journal for Creative Self-Discovery
Readers explore emotions, create art, and envision life’s possibilities. Dream Up Now offers a safe space for creative self-expression of all emotions, both positive and negative. Readers move from dark (negative) to light (positive) emotions. For example:
- From tired to fired up
- From confused to confident
- From jealous to appreciative
- From loss to peace
My Life Journal - for kids 8-12
Encourage readers’ hands, hearts, and minds with this fun and motivating journal that promotes social-emotional learning. The My Life Journal inspires kids to grow in self-awareness, name their feelings, make friends, give a good apology, cultivate gratitude, and feel confident!
SEL Solutions
Social-emotional Learning activities and creative writing worksheets that are multicultural, wholistic and solution-focused perspectives designed by Rayne!
Humanities Adjunct
Rebecca Lacko is an author, adjunct, and doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham. Her work explores how literary narrative shapes emotional and ethical formation in adult life. Her research brings together philosophy of education, aesthetics, adult learning, and literary studies, with particular interest in the formative power of story.