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Gayle Forman is an American author of young adult and children’s novels. She is best known for her novel If I Stay, which is being adapted to film and will star Chloe Grace Moretz. Gayle’s career began writing articles for Seventeen Magazine and then went on to become a freelance journalist for several magazines like […]
Redwall is a series of children’s fantasy novels by English author Brian Jacques. The series is about the battle between good and evil, where the good animal characters include the mice, badgers, voles, hares, moles and squirrels battling the rats, weasels, ferrets, snakes and stoats. The series is very realistic, which includes characters being killed […]
Brian Jacques (1939-2011) was an English author of children’s fantasy novels. He is best known for his Redwall series. Brian grew up in Liverpool, where as a boy, his father read him the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Despite his French-looking last name (which is actually pronounced […]
J.R. Rain is an American author of mystery, paranormal romance, adventure, young adult and children’s novels. He writes the Vampire for Hire/Samantha Moon series, Jim Knighthorse series and several others – often collaborating with other authors. J.R. became interested in writing as a kid when he started reading Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks. While researching […]
Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot is a series of children’s novels by American author Dav Pilkey. Ricky is a mouse who, along with his robot, saves the world from a different villain every book. Ricky Ricotta lived a lonely mouse in Squeakyville, where he was bullied during school. A mad scientist named Dr. Stinky McNasty made […]
Captain Underpants is a series of children’s novels by American author Dav Pilkey. The series follows two best friends, George Beard and Harold Hutchins. Together, they create a comic book character named Captain Underpants. They end up convincing their principal (Mr. Krupp) that he is Captain Underpants, and he becomes the real-life Captain Underpants. He […]
The Unicorns of Balinor is a children’s fantasy series by American author Mary Stanton. The series follows a group of kids (along with a horse and a collie) who fall into the “Gap,” sending them to a world called Balinor – the magical home of unicorns.
Mary Stanton is an American author of children’s fantasy novels and mystery novels. She started out working as a copywriter for Xerox and for her own company, until she sold her business and left in order to write on a full-time basis. Under her real name, she writes the Unicorns of Balinor series and the […]
The 39 Clues is a multi-author series of children’s adventure novels. Among the authors of the series are Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Jude Watson, Patrick Carman, Linda Sue Park, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Roland Smith, David Baldacci, Jeff Hirsch and Natalie Standiford. The series follows the brother-sister team of Amy and Dan Cahill, who […]
Seekers is a children’s fantasy series written under the pen name of Erin Hunter by Tui Sutherland and Cherith Baldry and is edited by Victoria Holmes. The books follow a polar bear named Kallik, a black bear named Lusa, a shapeshifting grizzly named Ujurak and another grizzly named Toklo. Together, the bears journey for somewhere […]