Sarah Aronson is the author of Head Case, her first young adult novel.

She earned a BA from Rutgers College, an MSPT from Arcadia College, and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College in July 2006. Her thesis was entitled: Lights! Camera! Action! Cinematic Technique in Novel Writing. She has worked as an aerobics instructor, physical therapist for people with traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, and religious school principal. She is currently a senior sales associate for Jewish Lights and SkyLight Paths Publishing.

She has received a work-in progress grant as well as an honorable mention for a young adult work in progress from SCBWI.

Along with Cindy Faughnan, Sarah organizes the Northern New England SCBWI Novel Writing Retreat at Vermont College every spring.

Sarah was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her interests include theater, film, music of all genres, coffee, chocolate, bike riding and hiking. She has seen the Sex Pistols perform. She makes a very hot and spicy seafood soup and collects electric menorahs, the kitschier the better.

Sarah currently lives in Hanover, NH, with her family.

Head Case
cover by Laurent Linn
Roaring Brook, 2007
ISBN: 978-1-59643-214-7

One mistake. One bad night. One too many drinks.

Frank Marder is a head, paralyzed from the neck down, and it’s his fault. He was drinking. He was driving. Now Frank can’t walk, he can’t move, he can’t feel his skin. He needs someone to feed him, to wash him, to move his body.

But if you ask most of the people who are posting on www.quadkingonthenet, he hasn’t been adequately punished. Two people are dead because of him. Frank should go to jail. Only “Anonymous” disagrees.

When you’re a head, do you ever feel like a whole person again? Will Frank ever get to forgive himself?