Books By Elle Strauss

Thanks for dropping by! This is where you'll find out everything you want to know about the Young Adult and Middle Grade books written by moi. I'm a married mom of four, and live in the beautiful Okanagan Valley, famous for beaches and vineyards. I'm fond of Lindt's sea salt dark chocolate and hiking in good weather. Check out my tabs for more info.

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Middle Grade

Middle Grade

Owen True is eleven and eleven twelfths and has been “exiled” to the small crazy town of Hayward, WA, aka Haywire, while his mother is on her honeymoon. All he has to whittle away the time is the company of Gramps, his black lab Daisy, and his Haywire friends, Mason and Mikala Sweet. They don’t look so hot this year, in fact the whole town has gone to pot since the mill shut down.

Owen has his first encounter with a real life homeless man who ends up needing Owen’s help in more ways than one. But how does a rich city kid help the small town’s suffering citizens?

And what is Owen to make of the fog train and its scary, otherworldy occupants that appears out of thin air on the old tracks behind Gramps’ house? Do they have the answer Owen is looking for?

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Mature YA/Adult as LEE Strauss

Mature YA/Adult as LEE Strauss

Seventeen year old Zoe Vanderveen is a GAP—a genetically altered person. She lives in the security of a walled city on prime water-front property along side other equally beautiful people with extended life spans.

Her brother Liam is missing.

Noah Brody is a natural who lives on the outside. He leads protests against the GAPs and detests the widening chasm they’ve created between those who have and those who don’t. He doesn’t like girls like Zoe and he has good reason not to like her specifically.

Zoe’s carefree life takes a traumatic turn. She’s in trouble and it turns out that Noah, the last guy on earth she should trust, is the only one who can help her.


Emil Radke is a dedicated Hitler Youth member. He’s loyal to the Fuehrer before family, a champion for the cause and fan of the famous Luftwaffe.

Then one day they take the Jews away, including his childhood friend, Anne. Still, there must be a good reason, right? It must be for the good of a great and glorious Germany.

When his friends Moritz and Johann discover a shortwave radio, everything changes. Now they listen to BBC broadcasts, news reports that tell both sides. Now they know the truth. The boys band together to write out the BBC news and covertly distribute flyers throughout their city. An act of high treason that could have them arrested or...worse.

But when Germany’s losses become immense, even their greatest resistance can’t prevent them from being sent to the eastern front.

Will Emil survive the battle? And will he ever see his family again?

Coming Winter 2012

JARS OF CLAY

Inspired by the real life of the Catholic saint, Perpetua, JARS OF CLAY, follows the life of HELENA, the daughter of a wealthy land owner and the forbidden relationship she forms with LUCIUS, a servant boy.




When Helena faces an unsavory arranged marriage, Lucius flees to Rome where he is arrested and sent to Gladiator school. Helena’s subsequent conversion to Christianity ultimately lands her in the arena where she meets up with Lucius one last time.
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