Hello! Welcome to the official website
of Robyn Gioia (joy-ya).

Meet Robyn. She wears two hats. 

One as a teacher and one as a fiction writer. The teacher in her likes to, well, teach. She must do a pretty
good job at it because she’s won an award for it. And her controversial history book has been featured
in the national newspaper.

Down with turkey, up with pork!

When most Americans think of the first Thanksgiving, they think of the Pilgrims and the Indians in New England in 1621. But 56 years before they celebrated, Spanish explorer Pedro Menendez arrived on the coast of Florida and founded the first North American city, St. Augustine. On September 8, 1565, the Spanish and the native Timucua celebrated with a feast of Thanksgiving. The Spanish most likely offered cocido, a rich stew made with pork, and the Timucua may have brought wild turkey, venison, or even alligator, along with corn, beans, and squash. Learn about our real first Thanksgiving. Learn about Spain and Florida in the 1560s. And make your own cocido from a recipe provided in this important and groundbreaking book.

The fiction writer in her likes to visit different worlds and create life where there was none before. She's won several awards for her work, one being the Benjamin Franklin Silver Award for Best New Children’s Voice.

Eighth grade sleuth Campbell Olson wanted to be class president.
What she got was a dead rat, a clue, and a ghost from the past.

Coming Soon as an eBook!
Click to read the first chapter.