Fourteen-year-old Mattie wrings her hands. "That boy is as unstoppable as a hound chasing a rabbit! How on earth can I get him to behave?"Mattie, a housemaid for one of the city's most influential families, is certain she'll be fired if she can't make ten-year-old stable boy, Timmy, stop pulling pranks. She makes it her mission to curb Timmy's behavior in order to save both their jobs. Although it's not easy for her, the stakes are too high for her not to try. Her family depends on her earnings to help make ends meet.Timmy's pranks turn dangerous. He gets caught up in a burglary, resulting in him being seriously injured. As Mattie helps take care of him, she learns about acceptance, patience, and faith.Taming the Prankster is historical fiction set in Northern New York in 1895.

Suzanne Rothenberger spends so much time daydreaming about the 1800s, she suspects that she was born in the wrong century. Because of this interest in the past, Suzanne recently began researching and writing historical fiction about the everyday lives of northern New Yorkers living in the nineteenth century. When her mind wanders back to the present age, she spends time with family and friends. Suzanne enjoys volunteering at her church, reading, traveling, snowshoeing, kayaking, and pestering her husband and their cat.Before entering the retirement stage of her life, Suzanne was a middle-grade teacher for ten years and a food program director at a child development center for nineteen years. Not only is she a wife, but she is also the proud mother of two reasonably well-adjusted adult children and three way-above-average grandsons.