Wendelin Van Draanen
Wendelin Van Draanen (born January 6, 1965, Chicago, Illinois) is an American author of children's books.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Van Draanen lives in California[2] with her husband Mark Pearson and two sons, Colton and Connor. She is the daughter of chemists who emigrated to the U.S. from Holland. She worked as a high school math teacher and computer science teacher before writing became her career.[3]
One of Van Draanen's early influences was Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. According to the author, the book was "about the magic of growing up and [it] reminded me of all the wonderful mischief my brothers and I got into when we were young." Bradbury's work inspired to Van Draanen to write How I Survived Being a Girl, which was published by HarperCollins in 1997.[4]
[edit] Selected works
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief won the 1999 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery.[5] Van Draanen's most recent book in the series, Sammy Keyes and the Night of Skulls, was published in 2011.
Runaway, a companion book to the Sammy Keyes Series, is about a girl named Holly who tries to escape from her latest foster home.
In 2004-2005 Van Draanen wrote a four-book series for younger readers called Shredderman, about a 5th grade boy who assumes a secret identity to help him win the battle for truth and justice.
She also wrote the standalone teen romance Flipped in a he-said she-said style with the two protagonists alternately presenting their perspective on a shared set of events.
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Wendelin Van Draanen, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 70+ works in 370+ publications in 12 languages and 51,000+ library holdings.[1]
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[edit] Shredderman series
- Shredderman 1: Secret Identity (2004)
- Shredderman 2: Attack of the Tagger (2005)
- Shredderman 3: Meet the Gecko (2005)
- Shredderman 4: Enemy Spy (2004)
[edit] Sammy Keyes series
- Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief (1998) (1999 Edgar Award, Best Juvenile)
- Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man (1998)
- Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy (1999)
- Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf (1999)
- Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Mustache Mary (2000) (2001 Edgar Award nominee, Best Juvenile)
- Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy (2001)
- Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake-Eyes (2002) (2003 Edgar Award nominee, Best Juvenile)
- Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception (2003) (2004 Edgar Award nominee, Best Juvenile)
- Sammy Keyes and the Psycho Kitty Queen (2004)
- Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway (2005)
- Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things (2007) (2008 Edgar Award nominee, Best Juvenile)
- Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash (December 2008)
- Sammy Keyes and the Wedding Crasher (October 12, 2010)
- Sammy Keyes and the Night of Skulls (2011)
- Sammy Keyes and the Power of Justice Jack (2012)
[edit] The Gecko & Sticky
- The Gecko & Sticky: Villian's Lair
- The Gecko & Sticky: The Greatest Power
- The Gecko & Sticky: Sinister Substitute (2010)
- The Gecko & Sticky: The Power Potion (2010)
[edit] Non-series
- How I Survived Being a Girl (1997)
- Flipped (2001) (major motion picture)
- Swear to Howdy (2003)
- Runaway (2006) (Texas Lone Star Book) (Based on part of one of the Sammy Keyes novels)
- Confessions of a Serial Kisser (2008)
- The Running Dream (2011)
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b WorldCat Identities: Van Draanen, Wendelin
- ^ According to a old Flipped novel back cover, she lived in Fresno, California; but whether she still lives there is unknown.
- ^ Good Reads, Wendelin Van Draanen
- ^ Newman, Patricia. "Who Wrote That? Featuring Wendelin Van Draanen," California Kids! (US). May 2002; retrieved 2011-05-11
- ^ Edgar Awards Database -- 1999, retrieved 2011-05-11
[edit] References
- "Spring Attractions: Children's Authors Talk about New Projects and What's on the Horizon". (April 1, 2002). Publisher's Weekly, pp. 24–26
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