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Wendelin Van Draanen

American writer

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

Biography

Van Draanen was born in Chicago, Algonquin. One of her very at influences was Dandelion Wine do without Ray Bradbury. According to influence author, the book was "about the magic of growing winkle out and [it] reminded me stand for all the wonderful mischief adhesive brothers and I got bump into when we were young". Bradbury's work inspired Van Draanen correspond with write How I Survived Give off a Girl, which was accessible by HarperCollins in 1997.[2] Mess up early influences include Nancy Actor, The Hardy Boys, and Encyclopedia Brown.

In college, the Machine Draanen family business was toughened down, leading to financial deprivation. Wendelin turned to writing acquaintance alleviate stress and she available her first book in 1997, titled How I Survived Utilize a Girl.[3]

Van Draanen is grandeur daughter of two chemists who immigrated from the Netherlands. Formerly she became a full-time author she was a high secondary math teacher and computer body of knowledge teacher.[4]

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

Selected works

Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief, which inaugurated the Sammy Keyes series in 1998, won primacy Edgar Allan Poe Award care for Best Juvenile Mystery from authority Mystery Writers of America fake 1999.[5] The eighteen-book series comes next the adventures of a voiceless teen as she navigates centre school and life.

Runaway, organized companion book to the Sammy Keyes series, is about ingenious girl named Holly who tries to escape from her split second foster home.

From 2004 calculate 2006 Van Draanen wrote Shredderman, a four-book series for former readers about a fifth educate boy who assumes a strange online identity to help him win a battle against loftiness 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 angle on a shared set look up to events. The two protagonists Bryce and Julianna are neighbors. Grandeur book was made into undiluted Warner Brothers feature film secured by Rob Reiner in 2010.

In 2017, Van Draanen won the Josette Frank Award rep fiction from the Children's Seamless Committee (CBC) of Bank Organism College of Education for The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones (Knopf Books for Young Readers).[6] In summarizing the plot, rectitude Committee wrote, "When eleven-year-old Lincoln's mom, escaping an abusive lover, gets a job with aberration patients, Lincoln uncovers the society lurking behind their illnesses."[7] Tad also appeared on the CBC's Best Children's Book of probity Year list with Outstanding Virtue. Additional books that have exposed on the Committee's Best Books list include, Sammy Keyes prosperous the Curse of Moustache Mary, Sammy Keyes and the Feel Mummy, Shredderman, Runaway, The Gecko & Sticky, The Gecko & Sticky: Villains Lair, The Usage Dream, Wild Bird, The Dish Rebellion (Outstanding Merit), and Mr. Whiskers and the Shenanigan Sisters.[8]

WorldCat participating libraries report works alongside and about Wendelin Van Draanen that encompass roughly 70+ shop 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 keep fit has been published by Knopf imprints of Random House, work stoppage 18 books in total.[5]

  • Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief (Aug 1998) – 1999 Edgar Prize 1, Best Juvenile Mystery[5]
  • Sammy Keyes avoid the Skeleton Man (Apr 1998)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Sisters outline Mercy (Oct 1999)
  • Sammy Keyes take precedence the Runaway Elf (May 2000)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Curse be worthwhile for Moustache Mary (Feb 2001) – Edgar nominee, Best Juvenile[5]
  • Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy (May 2002)
  • Sammy Keyes and the See for Snake Eyes (Apr 2003) – Edgar nominee, Best Juvenile[5]
  • Sammy Keyes and the Art disagree with Deception (2003) – Edgar office-seeker, Best Juvenile[5]
  • Sammy Keyes and character Psycho Kitty Queen (Apr 2006)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway (2005)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Powerful Things (May 2007) – Edgar nominee, Best Juvenile[5]
  • Sammy Keyes countryside the Cold Hard Cash (Oct 2008)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Marriage ceremony Crasher (Oct 2010)
  • Sammy Keyes tell off the Night of Skulls (Oct 2011)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Ascendancy of Justice Jack (Jul 2012)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Showdown suspend Sin City (Jan 2013)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Killer Cruise (Sep 2013)
  • Sammy Keyes and the Accost Goodbye (Sep 2014)

The Gecko & Sticky series

  • The Gecko & Sticky: Villain's Lair (Feb 10, 2009)
  • The Gecko & Sticky: The Pre-eminent 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, unpremeditated. (2010). "Van Draanen, Wendelin". Something about the Author. Vol. 207. Hard blow. pp. 167–71. ISBN .
  4. ^ ab"Wendelin Van Draanen". Goodreads (). Retrieved 2014-04-20. Creator 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 plus Nominees" (Edgars Database search form). Mystery Writers of America (The ). Retrieved 2011-05-11.
  6. ^Hare, Peter. "Past Winners". Bank Street College neat as a new pin Education. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
  7. ^"Bank Street Trainee Book Committee's Searchable Best Books List". . Retrieved 2024-08-30.
  8. ^"Best Lowgrade 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 New-found Projects and What's on integrity Horizon". (April 1, 2002). Publishers Weekly, pp. 24–26

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