My Fave Authors!
Jennifer Brown
Two-time winner of the Erma Bombeck Global Humor Award (2005 & 2006), Jennifer's weekly humor column appeared in The Kansas City Star for over four years, until she gave it up to be a full-time young adult novelist. Jennifer's debut novel, HATE LIST received three starred reviews and was selected as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a VOYA "Perfect Ten," and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. HATE LIST also won the Michigan Library Association's Thumbs Up! Award, and received spots on the Texas Library Association's Taysha's high school reading list as well as the Missouri Library Association's Missouri Gateway Awards list, and has been nominated for the Oklahoma Sequoyah Award. Jennifer's second novel, BITTER END, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and is scheduled to be released in May 2011. Jennifer writes and lives in the Kansas City, Missouri area, with her husband and three children.
BOOKS:
Hate List
Bitter End
Perfect Escape (publication July 10th 2012)
Thousand Words (publication 2013)
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BOOKS:
Hate List
Bitter End
Perfect Escape (publication July 10th 2012)
Thousand Words (publication 2013)
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Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot (born Meggin Patricia Cabot on February 1, 1967 in Bloomingdale, Indiana, USA is an American author of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults and used to write under several pen names, but now writes exclusively under her real name, Meg Cabot. She has written and published over fifty books, and is best known for The Princess Diaries, later made by Walt Disney Pictures into two feature films of the same name. Meg's books have been the recipients of numerous awards, including the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, the American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, the Tennessee Volunteer State TASL Book Award, the Book Sense Pick, the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, the IRA/CBC Young Adult Choice - as well as many others (see awards section for specific book wins) She has had numerous #1 New York Times bestsellers.Cabot has more than fifteen million copies of her books—children's, young adult, and adult—in print worldwide. (source: Wikipedia)
BOOKS:
The Princess Diaries series (18 books, 10 primary)
All-American Girl series (2 books, 2 primary)
The Mediator series (6 books, 6 primary)
1-800-Where-R-You series (5 books, 5 primary)
Heather Wells series (4 books, 4 primary, Size 12 And Ready To Rock publication July 10th, 2012)
Queen of Babble series (3 books, 3 primary)
Insatiable series (2 books, 2 primary)
Abandon series (3 books, 3 primary, Underworld publication in 2012, 3rd book publication 2013)
Airhead series (3 books, 3 primary)
Boy series ( 3 books, 3 primary)
Avalon High
Jinx
Teen Idol
How To Be Popular
Pants on Fire
She Went All The Way
Nicola and the Viscount
Victoria and the Rogue
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Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and attended UNC-Chapel Hill, graduating with highest honors in Creative Writing. She is the author of several novels, including Someone Like You, Just Listen and Along for the Ride. A motion picture based on her first two books, entitled How to Deal, was released in 2003. Her tenth novel,What Happened to Goodbye, will be published in May 2011. She lives in North Carolina.
BOOKS:
That Summer
Someone Like You
Keeping the Moon
Dreamland
This Lullaby
The Truth About Forever
Just Listen
Lock and Key
Along for the ride
What happened To Goodbye
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BOOKS:
That Summer
Someone Like You
Keeping the Moon
Dreamland
This Lullaby
The Truth About Forever
Just Listen
Lock and Key
Along for the ride
What happened To Goodbye
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Ellen Hopkins
Ellen Hopkins (born March 26, 1955) is a novelist who has published several New York Times bestselling novels that are popular among the teenage and young adult audience. Hopkins began her writing career with nonfiction books for children, including Air Devils and Orcas: High Seas Supermen. She has written 56 such non-fiction books.Hopkins had a daughter who became addicted to crystal meth, or "crank." In 2002, her struggle inspired Hopkins to begin writing her debut novel, Crank, meant to express the horrible influences of drug abuse and addiction. Hopkins has since written several verse novels on teenage struggles, including Burned, Impulse, Identical, Tricks, and Fallout. Glass is the sequel to Crank, and Fallout, the third and final book in the series, was released on September 14, 2010. Perfect is scheduled to be released September 13, 2011, and is a companion novel to Impulse. Hopkins also plans on releasing a sequel to Burned, Smoke, in 2013. (Source: Wikipedia)
BOOKS:
Crank
Glass
Fallout
Impulse
Perfect
Burned
Smoke (publication in 2013)
Identical
Tricks
A New Dawn
Triangles
Tilt (Publication in 2012)
Collateral (Publication Fall, 2012)
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BOOKS:
Crank
Glass
Fallout
Impulse
Perfect
Burned
Smoke (publication in 2013)
Identical
Tricks
A New Dawn
Triangles
Tilt (Publication in 2012)
Collateral (Publication Fall, 2012)
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James Patterson
In the past three years, James Patterson has sold more books than any
other author (according to Bookscan), and in total, James's books have
sold an estimated 220 million copies worldwide. Since 2006, one out of
every seventeen hardcover fiction books sold was a Patterson title. He
is the first author to have #1 new titles simultaneously on The New York Times
adult and children's bestsellers lists and is the only author to have
five new hardcover novels debut at #1 on the list in one year—a
record-breaking feat he's accomplished every year since 2005. To date,
James Patterson has had nineteen consecutive #1 New York Times bestselling novels, and holds the New York Times record for most Hardcover Fiction bestselling titles by a single author (63 total), which is also a Guinness World Record.
BOOKS:
Alex Cross series (18 books, 18 primary, Kill Alex Cross publication in Sept. 2011)
Maximum Ride series ( 9 books, 8 primary,Nevermore publication in 2012 )
Women's Murder Club series (12 book, 11 primary, 11th hour publication in 2012)
When The Wind Blows series( 2 books, 2 primary)
Michael Bennett series ( 5 books, 5 primary, I, Michael Bennett publication July 9th 2012)
Witch & Wizard series (3 books, 3 primary)
Daniel X series (4 books, 4 primary)
Jack Morgan series ( 2 books, 2 primary)
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Sundays At Tiffany's
The Beach House
Sam's Letters to Jennifer
Honeymoon
The Quickie
Beach Road
Lifeguard
Judge & Jury
Cradle and All
Sail
Hide and Seek
The Jester
You've Been Warned
Guilty Wives
Confessions of a Murder Suspect (publication September 24th 2012)
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BOOKS:
Alex Cross series (18 books, 18 primary, Kill Alex Cross publication in Sept. 2011)
Maximum Ride series ( 9 books, 8 primary,Nevermore publication in 2012 )
Women's Murder Club series (12 book, 11 primary, 11th hour publication in 2012)
When The Wind Blows series( 2 books, 2 primary)
Michael Bennett series ( 5 books, 5 primary, I, Michael Bennett publication July 9th 2012)
Witch & Wizard series (3 books, 3 primary)
Daniel X series (4 books, 4 primary)
Jack Morgan series ( 2 books, 2 primary)
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Sundays At Tiffany's
The Beach House
Sam's Letters to Jennifer
Honeymoon
The Quickie
Beach Road
Lifeguard
Judge & Jury
Cradle and All
Sail
Hide and Seek
The Jester
You've Been Warned
Guilty Wives
Confessions of a Murder Suspect (publication September 24th 2012)
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Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan is an American author from Texas famous for his Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. He attended The University of Texas at Austin in 1986, where he double-majored in English and History He also wrote the Kane Chronicles and, most recently, The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus). He also wrote the Tres Navarre series for adults and helped to edit Demigods and Monsters, a collection of essays on the topic of his Percy Jackson series. He also wrote book one of the 39 Clues (The Maze of Bones) and co-wrote book eleven (Vespers Rising) published by Scholastic Corporation.
Books:
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series (5 books, 5 primary)
Heroes of Olympus series ( 5 books, 5 primary, The Mark Of Athena publication October 2nd 2012, 4th book publication 2013, 5th book publication 2014 )
The Kane Chronicles series (3 books, 3 primary, 3rd book publication in 2012)
Tres Navarre (7 books, 7 primary)
Maze of Bones
The Demigod Files
Vespers Rising
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Books:
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series (5 books, 5 primary)
Heroes of Olympus series ( 5 books, 5 primary, The Mark Of Athena publication October 2nd 2012, 4th book publication 2013, 5th book publication 2014 )
The Kane Chronicles series (3 books, 3 primary, 3rd book publication in 2012)
Tres Navarre (7 books, 7 primary)
Maze of Bones
The Demigod Files
Vespers Rising
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Veronica Roth
Veronica Roth is only 23, so her bio will be short. She’s from a Chicago suburb. She studied creative writing at Northwestern University, and wrote DIVERGENT, her YA dystopian thriller, while she was supposed to be doing homework. This was a decidedly good choice that will unfortunately make it difficult for her to someday lecture her future children on how important it is to get your homework done. (source: Goodreads.com)
BOOKS:
Divergent
Insurgent (publication in 2012)
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BOOKS:
Divergent
Insurgent (publication in 2012)
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