YEAR 6 BOOK STUDY
Anne Fine
www.annefine.co.uk
When I was young, it never occurred to me that I might be a writer. I think I must have thought that books were born on the library shelves. But I was good at writing stories, and I had a good deal of practice.
My primary school teacher came in every Monday morning in a rather grumpy mood. He'd look at the work calendar on the wall, which told us that we should be doing maths, and put his head in his hands.
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Gordon Korman
www.gordonkorman.com
Gordon Korman was born October 23, 1963 in Montreal, Quebec in Canada. He wrote his first book, This Can't be Happening at Macdonald Hall when he was 12 years old for a coach who suddenly found himself teaching 7th grade English … he later took that episode and created a book out of it, as well, in the Sixth Grade Nickname Game, where Mr. Huge was based on that 7th grade teacher.
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Ann M. Martin
http://www.scholastic.com/annmartin
Hi, readers! Whenever I get a chance to meet with kids, one of the questions I am sure to be asked is, "Where do you get your ideas?" It's a hard question to answer because my ideas come from many different places. For example, I read a lot of magazines and newspapers so I know what's going on in the world. Also, my editors often have suggestions that I find interesting. And my own experiences as a teenage baby-sitter certainly gave me plenty of material for the BSC books. But my ideas come from other places, too. I'll share a few of them with you so you can see what I mean.
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Joan Aiken
Joan Aiken lived in a world of stories, and her greatest delight was sharing them. If you haven't yet dicovered her wonderful world, then there is treasure in store for you here. There are over a hundred books to choose from - myth, magic, fantasy and adventure - stories from the past and the future, stories to make you laugh and cry, and friends who will stay with you forever. Happy Reading!
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Elizabeth George Speare
Wikipedia
Elizabeth George Speare was an American writer who won many awards for her historical novels, including two Newbery Medals. She has been called one of America's 100 most popular writers for children and some of her work has become mandatory reading in many schools throughout the nation.[1][2] Indeed, because her books have sold so well she is also cited as one of the Educational Paperback Association's top 100 authors.
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Chris Grabenstein
Chris Grabenstein is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Island of Dr. Libris and Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library as well as the co-author (with James Patterson) of the #1 Bestselling series I Funny, House of Robots, and Treasure Hunters.
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Yin Chang Compestine
& Vinson Compestine
A leading national authority on Asian culture and cuisine, award-winning author, and former food editor for Martha Stewart's Whole Living magazine, Ying Chang Compestine is the multi-talented author of 20 books including fiction, picture books, and five cookbooks. She is the host of the popular TV cooking show New Ideas for Delicious Meals on Phoenix TV, and the spokeswoman for Nestle Maggi. Ying was also the spokesperson for Celestial Seasoning.
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Jan Pienkowski
http://www.janpienkowski.com/home.htm
Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration (twice), Jan is best known forHaunted House, his pop-ups and the MEG & MOG series, created with Helen Nicoll. His other work includes wonderfully evocative silhouette books such as Christmas andEaster, in the incomparable King James version. For the very young, he has written and illustrated the Nursery Books in bold and brilliant colours.
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Rebecca Stead
www.rebeccasteadbooks.com
I grew up in New York City, where I was lucky enough to attend the kind of elementary school where a person could sit in a windowsill, or even under a table, and read a book, and no one told you to come out and be serious (well, eventually someone did, but not right away).
It was at school that I began writing. Sometimes I invented stories, and other times I just wrote down things I overheard...
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Michael Morpurgo
www.michaelmorpurgo.com
Michael Morpurgo is, in his own words, “oldish, married with three children, and a grandfather six times over.” Born in 1943, he attended schools in London, Sussex and Canterbury (one at least of which was horrible enough to inspire him to describe it obliquely in The Butterfly Lion). He went on to London University to study English and French, followed by a step into the teaching profession and a job in a primary school in Kent. It was there that he discovered what he wanted to do.
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Cynthia Lord
www.cynthialord.com
My life as a writer began at age four with a song collaboration with my sister (I couldn’t write, so she did the actual writing). The song was called “Ding Dong the Cherries Sing,” and we forced anyone within a 12-mile radius to listen to us sing it, over and over and over.
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Eva Ibbotson
Wikipedia
Eva Ibbotson, born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her children's books. Some of her novels for adults have been successfully reissued for the young adult market in recent years.
For the historical novel Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan, 2001), she won the Smarties Prize in category 9–11 years, garnered unusual commendation as runner up for the Guardian Prize,[2] and made the Carnegie, Whitbread, and Blue Peter shortlists.
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Trenton Lee Stewart
www.mysteriousbenedictsociety.com
Trenton Lee Stewart (born 1970) is an American author best known for the Mysterious Benedict Society series. Stewart is a graduate of Hendrix College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives with his wife and two sons in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Dan Gutman
www.dangutman.com
I was born in New York City on October 19, 1955. When I was about a year old, my family moved to Newark, New Jersey, where I spent my childhood. It was pretty uneventful until June 1, 1968, when I came home from a Little League game and found that my dad had suddenly abandoned my mom, my sister Lucy, and me. It was pretty traumatic, as you can imagine, but we all survived.
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Kenneth Oppel
I was born in Port Alberni, a mill town on Vancouver Island, British Columbia but spent the bulk of my childhood in Victoria, B.C. and on the opposite coast, in Halifax, Nova Scotia...At around twelve I decided I wanted to be a writer (this came after deciding I wanted to be a scientist, and then an architect). I started out writing sci-fi epics (my Star Wars phase) then went on to swords and sorcery tales (my Dungeons and Dragons phase) and then, during the summer holiday when I was fourteen, started on a humorous story about a boy addicted to video games (written, of course, during my video game phase).
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Katherine Rundell
http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Katherine-Rundell/410789881
Katherine Rundell is the author of Rooftoppers, Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms (a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner), and The Wolf Wilder. She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels, and London, and is currently a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She begins each day with a cartwheel and believes that reading is almost exactly the same as cartwheeling: it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless. In her spare time, she enjoys walking on tightropes and trespassing on the rooftops of Oxford colleges.
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THE AUTHORS
Malorie Blackman
www.malorieblackman.co.uk
Before I was a writer, I had a number of jobs including Database Manager, Systems Programmer, Documentation Assistant (in other words, a glorified filing clerk) and I had a number of temporary summer jobs whilst I was doing my O and A Levels, including working as a telephonist/receptionist/typist, a Catering Assistant and Saturday jobs at Littlewoods and British Home Stores.
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