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Wendelin Van Draanen

American writer

Wendelin Van Draanen[1] (born January 6, ) is an American writer of children's and young-adult fiction.

Biography

Van Draanen was born in Chicago, Illinois. One of her very 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 Van Draanen to write How I Survived Being a Girl, which was published by HarperCollins in [2] Other early influences include Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, and Encyclopedia Brown.

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In college, the Van Draanen family business was burned down, leading to financial hardship. Wendelin turned to writing to alleviate stress and she published her first book in , titled How I Survived Being a Girl.[3]

Van Draanen is the daughter of two chemists who immigrated from the Netherlands.

Before she became a full-time writer she was a high school math teacher and computer science teacher.[4]

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

Selected works

Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief, which inaugurated the Sammy Keyes series in , won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America in [5] The eighteen-book series follows the adventures of a disenfranchised teen as she navigates middle school and life.

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

From to Van Draanen wrote Shredderman, a four-book series for younger readers about a fifth grade boy who assumes a secret online identity to help him win a battle against the school bully Bubba Bixby.

Wendelin van draanen biography books I loved the characters and felt like I gained some insight into that period of history. Going Home is a sparkling, funny, bighearted story of family and what happens when three men take charge of a toddler following an unexpected loss. I just visited my mom every day at the care facility where she spent the …more I didn't notice the seed for The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones being planted. As such, it is likely a brief snapshot in time.

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. The two protagonists Bryce and Julianna are neighbors. The book was made into a Warner Brothers feature film directed by Rob Reiner in

In , Van Draanen won the Josette Frank Award for fiction from the Children's Book Committee (CBC) of Bank Street College of Education for The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones (Knopf Books for Young Readers).[6] In summarizing the plot, the Committee wrote, "When eleven-year-old Lincoln's mom, escaping an abusive boyfriend, gets a job with dementia patients, Lincoln uncovers the humanity lurking behind their illnesses."[7] It also appeared on the CBC's Best Children's Book of the Year list with Outstanding Merit.

Additional books that have appeared on the Committee's Best Books list include, Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Moustache Mary, Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy, Shredderman, Runaway, The Gecko & Sticky, The Gecko & Sticky: Villains Lair, The Running Dream, Wild Bird, The Peach Rebellion (Outstanding Merit), and Mr.

Whiskers and the Shenanigan Sisters.[8]

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

Shredderman series

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

Sammy Keyes series

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

  • Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief (Aug ) – Edgar Award, Best Juvenile Mystery[5]
  • Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man (Apr )
  • Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy (Oct )
  • Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf (May )
  • Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Moustache Mary (Feb ) – Edgar nominee, Best Juvenile[5]
  • Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy (May )
  • Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes (Apr ) – Edgar nominee, Best Juvenile[5]
  • Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception () – Edgar nominee, Best Juvenile[5]
  • Sammy Keyes and the Psycho Kitty Queen (Apr )
  • Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway ()
  • Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things (May ) – Edgar nominee, Best Juvenile[5]
  • Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash (Oct )
  • Sammy Keyes and the Wedding Crasher (Oct )
  • Sammy Keyes and the Night of Skulls (Oct )
  • Sammy Keyes and the Power of Justice Jack (Jul )
  • Sammy Keyes and the Showdown in Sin City (Jan )
  • Sammy Keyes and the Killer Cruise (Sep )
  • Sammy Keyes and the Kiss Goodbye (Sep )

The Gecko & Sticky series

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

Non-series

See also

References

  1. ^Dutch name, see "a recording introducing and pronouncing Wendelin Van Draanen by herself".
  2. ^Newman, Patricia (May ).

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    6. Featuring Wendelin Van Draanen". California Kids!. Valley Community Newspapers (Sacramento, CA). Reissued by the writer (). Retrieved

  6. ^Kumar, Lisa, ed.

    Wendelin van draanen biography books free And since the best epiphanies come about through experience, I hoped that showing characters experience an evolution from seeing only the surface to seeing what lies beneath it might be a way to encourage thought on what love really is. See all Wendelin Van Draanen's quotes ». Return to Book Page. That's what my characters do--one day they'll just start talking.

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    Goodreads (). Retrieved Author profile with "some recent posts imported from her feed" (71 from December 30, ).

  8. ^ abcdefg"Edgar Awards throughout time", or "Search the Edgar Award Winners and Nominees" (Edgars Database search form).

    Mystery Writers of America (The ). Retrieved

  9. ^Hare, Peter.

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    "Past Winners". Bank Street College of Education. Retrieved

  10. ^"Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Searchable Best Books List". . Retrieved
  11. ^"Best Children's Books of the Year". Bank Street College of Education.

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  17. ^"Van Draanen, Wendelin". WorldCat Identities.
  18. ^ ab"Lone Star Reading List". Texas Library Association (). Retrieved With "Master List" (MS Excel) for download, comprising annual lists of 20 books from to to present;
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