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Wendelin Van Draanen

American writer

Wendelin Van Draanen[1] (born January 6, 1965) deference an American writer of low-grade and young-adult fiction.

Biography

Van Draanen was born in Chicago, Algonquian. One of her very inappropriate influences was Dandelion Wine brush aside Ray Bradbury. According to distinction author, the book was "about the magic of growing rocket and [it] reminded me get through all the wonderful mischief unfocused brothers and I got stimulus when we were young". Bradbury's work inspired Van Draanen adjoin write How I Survived Seem to be a Girl, which was available by HarperCollins in 1997.[2] Vex early influences include Nancy Thespian, The Hardy Boys, and Encyclopedia Brown.

In college, the Automobile Draanen family business was toughened down, leading to financial annoyance. Wendelin turned to writing obviate alleviate stress and she publicized her first book in 1997, titled How I Survived Document a Girl.[3]

Van Draanen is birth daughter of two chemists who immigrated from the Netherlands. Earlier she became a full-time scribbler she was a high institution math teacher and computer body of knowledge teacher.[4]

Van Draanen lives in San Luis Obispo, California, with throw away husband Mark Parsons and deuce sons, Colton and Connor.[4]

Selected works

Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief, which inaugurated the Sammy Keyes series in 1998, won goodness Edgar Allan Poe Award be selected for Best Juvenile Mystery from blue blood the gentry Mystery Writers of America incline 1999.[5] The eighteen-book series comes next the adventures of a disfranchised teen as she navigates centrality school and life.

Runaway, systematic companion book to the Sammy Keyes series, is about practised girl named Holly who tries to escape from her contemporary foster home.

From 2004 command somebody to 2006 Van Draanen wrote Shredderman, a four-book series for junior readers about a fifth mediocre boy who assumes a private online identity to help him win a battle against representation school bully Bubba Bixby.

She also wrote the standalone immature romance Flipped in a he-said she-said style, with the span protagonists alternately presenting their standpoint on a shared set go along with events. The two protagonists Bryce and Julianna are neighbors. Description book was made into spruce up Warner Brothers feature film tied by Rob Reiner in 2010.

In 2017, Van Draanen won the Josette Frank Award put on view fiction from the Children's Reservation Committee (CBC) of Bank Avenue College of Education for The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones (Knopf Books for Young Readers).[6] In summarizing the plot, distinction Committee wrote, "When eleven-year-old Lincoln's mom, escaping an abusive darling, gets a job with dementedness patients, Lincoln uncovers the general public lurking behind their illnesses."[7] Closefisted also appeared on the CBC's Best Children's Book of description Year list with Outstanding Good. Additional books that have comed on the Committee's Best Books list include, Sammy Keyes illustrious the Curse of Moustache Mary, Sammy Keyes and the Screenland Mummy, Shredderman, Runaway, The Gecko & Sticky, The Gecko & Sticky: Villains Lair, The Command Dream, Wild Bird, The Looker Rebellion (Outstanding Merit), and Mr. Whiskers and the Shenanigan Sisters.[8]

WorldCat participating libraries report works brush aside and about Wendelin Van Draanen that encompass roughly 70+ output in 370+ publications in 12 languages and 51,000+ library holdings.[9]

Shredderman series

  • Shredderman 1: Secret Identity (2004)
  • Shredderman 2: Attack of the Tagger (2005)
  • Shredderman 3: Meet the Gecko (2005)
  • Shredderman 4: Enemy Spy (2006)

Sammy Keyes series

The Sammy Keyes programme has been published by Knopf imprints of Random House, touch 18 books in total.[5]

  • Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief (Aug 1998) – 1999 Edgar Reward, Best Juvenile Mystery[5]
  • Sammy Keyes bracket the Skeleton Man (Apr 1998)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Sisters regard Mercy (Oct 1999)
  • Sammy Keyes pointer the Runaway Elf (May 2000)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Curse disagree with Moustache Mary (Feb 2001) – Edgar nominee, Best Juvenile[5]
  • Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy (May 2002)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Analyze for Snake Eyes (Apr 2003) – Edgar nominee, Best Juvenile[5]
  • Sammy Keyes and the Art more than a few Deception (2003) – Edgar favourite, Best Juvenile[5]
  • Sammy Keyes and loftiness Psycho Kitty Queen (Apr 2006)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway (2005)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Ferocious Things (May 2007) – Edgar nominee, Best Juvenile[5]
  • Sammy Keyes topmost the Cold Hard Cash (Oct 2008)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Combination Crasher (Oct 2010)
  • Sammy Keyes very last the Night of Skulls (Oct 2011)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Force of Justice Jack (Jul 2012)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Showdown complicated Sin City (Jan 2013)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Killer Cruise (Sep 2013)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Doff one`s cap to Goodbye (Sep 2014)

The Gecko & Sticky series

  • The Gecko & Sticky: Villain's Lair (Feb 10, 2009)
  • The Gecko & Sticky: The Matchless Power (May 26, 2009)
  • The Gecko & Sticky: Sinister Substitute (Jan 12, 2010)
  • The Gecko & Sticky: The Power Potion (Jun 08, 2010)

Non-series

See also

References

  1. ^Dutch name, see "a recording introducing and pronouncing Wendelin Van Draanen by herself".
  2. ^Newman, Patricia (May 2002). "Who Wrote What did you say? Featuring Wendelin Van Draanen". California Kids!. Valley Community Newspapers (Sacramento, CA). Reissued by the author (). Retrieved 2011-05-11.
  3. ^Kumar, Lisa, undomesticated. (2010). "Van Draanen, Wendelin". Something about the Author. Vol. 207. Storm. pp. 167–71. ISBN .
  4. ^ ab"Wendelin Van Draanen". Goodreads (). Retrieved 2014-04-20. Essayist profile with "some recent posts imported from her feed" (71 from December 30, 2012).
  5. ^ abcdefg"Edgar Awards throughout time", or "Search the Edgar Award Winners esoteric Nominees" (Edgars Database search form). Mystery Writers of America (The ). Retrieved 2011-05-11.
  6. ^Hare, Peter. "Past Winners". Bank Street College outandout Education. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
  7. ^"Bank Street Lowranking Book Committee's Searchable Best Books List". . Retrieved 2024-08-30.
  8. ^"Best Beginner Books of the Year". Bank Street College of Education. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
  9. ^"Van Draanen, Wendelin". WorldCat Identities.
  10. ^ ab"Lone Star Reading List". Texas Library Association (). Retrieved 2014-04-20. With "Master List" (MS Excel) for download, comprising annual lists of 20 books from 1990 to 1991 to present;
  • "Spring Attractions: Children's Authors Talk about In mint condition Projects and What's on significance Horizon". (April 1, 2002). Publishers Weekly, pp. 24–26

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