Her innovative summer writing program for children earned her the Lucile Micheels Pannell Award.Īfter selling her interest in the bookstore, Anne began teaching in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. A former elementary school teacher and then bookseller, she co-owned Toad Hall Children's Bookstore in Austin, Texas. She’s acting suspiciously, pulling disappearing acts, and worst of all, can’t seem to answer any questions about where she was or what she was doing.īut much like UFOs, extraterrestrial visitations, and sending people to space, the impossible has been known to happen.īorn and raised in Hawaii, with a few years in California sandwiched in between, Anne Bustard moved to Texas to attend college and stayed. The only problem is that there is a lot of evidence against her, and Mimi herself isn’t helping things.

MJ is desperate to show the town that this Crook is not a thief. But right before the kick-off party, a meteorite goes missing-and MJ’s beloved grandmother Mimi, who is the vice president of the Totter Unidentified Flying Object Organization, is the prime suspect. The whole town is gearing up for the First Annual Come on Down Day-in just one week, they are hoping to host any and all space aliens who would like to visit Earth. It’s 1964, the Space Race is well underway, and eleven-year-old Magnolia Jean Crook and the other residents of Totter, Texas, are over the moon about UFOs. From the author of Blue Skies comes a lively middle grade novel set in 1960s Texas about a young, alien-loving girl trying to clear her grandmother’s good name in this mystery that has humor, hijinks, and heart in equal measure.

T Is for Texas by Anne Bustard