2024 Book Excellence Award for Women’s Fiction 

2024 Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner

2024 Rubery Book Award Finalist

Momentum: Montessori, A Life in Motion

Elizabeth Slade’s Books

  • Finding Ground: Building Strong Elementary Programs

    This book helps elementary educators and caregivers find their ground to walk on, or, in other words, to feel confident to create Montessori learning environments and experiences in service of all learners.

  • Momentum: Montessori, a Life in Motion

    Taking its bones from a real diary written by Dr. Maria Montessori in 1913 chronicling her first voyage to America, Momentum is a fictionalized retelling of that same voyage.

  • Montessori in Action: Building Resilient Montessori Schools

    The first of its kind, this book offers readers a collection of modern and concrete ways to build an equitable and resilient Montessori program.

  • Rest Stops

    Told through the unvarnished voices of its characters, Rest Stops is a young adult fiction book about finding and claiming home, redefining family, and every person’s quest for identity.

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  • "I honestly have read nothing like Momentum in the literature around Maria Montessori."

    — Mariana Bissonnette, author of Babies Build Toddlers

  • “Simply brilliant--no, complexly brilliant. I have never read a more absorbing, unflinching, intense embodiment of biographical fiction.”

    — Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab’s Wife

  • "Rest Stops is a truly wonderful story that is sprinkled with surprises throughout. I didn't want to put it down. "

    EAC

  • "Montessori in Action: Building Resilient Montessori Schools is a powerful call to action that challenges us to embrace an expansive vision of whole-school Montessori."

    Cassi Mackey

About Elizabeth Slade

In addition to writing, Elizabeth serves as the Executive Director of Public Montessori in Action International, an organization committed to ensuring fully-implemented Montessori education for children, families, and educators of the global majority.