Janet Tashjian

Janet Tashjian
Born	Providence, Rhode Island
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	American
Genre	Young adult literature
Website
www.janettashjian.com

Janet Tashjian is an American novelist living in Los Angeles. Her middle grade and young adult fiction is published by Henry Holt and Company. Her novels often incorporate different formats and play with the line between fiction and non-fiction. She is the mother of Jake Tashjian, who provided illustrations for eight of her novels.

Books

Stand-alone fiction

• 1997: Tru Confessions (which was adapted for a 2002 Disney Channel Original Movie: Tru Confessions)
• 1999: Multiple Choice
• 1999: Felicity: Summer
• 2003: Fault Line
• 2012: For What It's Worth

Larry series

• 2001: The Gospel According to Larry
• 2004: Vote for Larry
• 2008: Larry and the Meaning of Life

My Life series

• 2010: My Life As a Book
• 2011: My Life as a lonly boy
• 2013: My Life as a Cartoonist
• 2014: My Life as a Joke
• 2015: My Life as a Gamer
• 2017: My Life as a Ninja
• 2018: My Life as a Youtuber
• 2019: My Life as a Meme
• 2020: My Life as a Coder

Einstein the Class Hamster series

• 2013: Einstein the Class Hamster
• 2014: Einstein the Class Hamster and the Very Real Game Show
• 2015: Einstein the Class Hamster Saves the Library

Sticker Girl series

• 2016: Sticker Girl
• 2017: Sticker Girl Rules the School
• 2018: Sticker Girl and the Cupcake Challenge

Marty Frye, Private Eye series

• 2017: Marty Frye, Private Eye
• 2017: Marty Frye, Private Eye: The Case of the Stolen Poodle
• 2018: Marty Frye, Private Eye: The Case of the Busted Video Games

Adaptations

Tashjian's works have been translated into several languages. Her novel Tru Confessions was adapted into a Disney television movie starring Clara Bryant and Shia LaBeouf.

External links

• Official site
• Author biography at Macmillan Books