List of Young Adult Writers
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Joan Abelove: Go and Come Back, Saying It Out Loud, Lost and Found
Hailey Abbott: The Secrets of Boys, Summer Boys series, The Bridesmaid, Getting Lost With Boys,
The Perfect Boy, Waking Up To Boys, Forbidden Boy, The Other Boy
Richard Adams: Watership Down, Shardik, The Plague Dogs
Alexandra Adornetto: Halo, Hades, Heaven
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Eight Cousins
Lloyd Alexander: The Prydain Chronicles, Westmark, The Kestrel, The Beggar Queen
Isabel Allende: The Adventures of Eagle and Jaguar series: City of the Beasts, Kingdom of the
Golden Dragon, and Forest of the Pygmies
David Almond: Kit's Wilderness, Heaven Eyes, Clay
Elaine M. Alphin: Counterfeit Son
Julia Alvarez: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Yo!, Before We Were Free
Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak, Fever 1793, Catalyst, Prom, Twisted
M. T. Anderson: Feed
V.C. Andrews: Flowers in the Attic, among others
Kim Antieau: Mercy, Unbound
Allen Appel: Twice Upon a Time
Jules Archer: The Plot to Seize the White House, The Incredible Sixties, Treason in America:
Disloyalty Versus Dissent, and other volumes of non-fiction U.S. history
Jay Asher: Thirteen Reasons Why, The Future of Us
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: In the Forests of the Night, Demon in My View, Shattered Mirror,
Midnight Predator, Persistence of Memory, the Kiesha'ra series
Avi: Nothing But the Truth, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Crispin: The Cross of Lead
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Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting
David-Matthew Barnes: Mesmerized, Swimming to Chicago
T. A. Barron: The Ancient One
John Barrowman and Carole Barrowman: Hollow Earth
Lois Thompson Bartholomew: The White Dove
Cat Bauer: Harley's Ninth, Harley, Like a Person
Joan Bauer: Rules of the Road, Squashed, Stand Tall, Hope Was Here
Michael Gerard Bauer: The Running Man, Don't Call Me Ishmael
Margaret Bechard: Hanging onto Max, Star Hatchling, Spacer and Rat, If it Doesn't Kill You
David Belbin: Love Lessons, Festival, Denial, The Last Virgin, Dead Guilty
Clare Bell: Ratha's Creature, Clan Ground, Ratha and Thistle-chaser, Ratha's Challenge, Ratha's
Courage, Tomorrow's Sphinx
Steve Berman: Vintage, a Ghost Story
Franny Billingsley: The Folk Keeper, Chime
Holly Black: The Spiderwick Chronicles, Tithe, Valiant, Ironside
Malorie Blackman: Noughts and Crosses series
Francesca Lia Block: Weetzie Bat, Witch Baby, Baby Be-Bop, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys
Judy Blume: Forever, Tiger Eyes, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Frank Bonham: Durango Street
James Bow: The Unwritten Girl
Tim Bowler: River Boy, Apocalypse, Starseeker
Robin Brande: Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature, Fat Cat
Ann Brashares: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Liz Braswell: The Nine Lives of Chloe King series
Libba Bray: A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing
Heather Brewer: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series
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Kate Brian: The Virginity Club, Private series
Rae Bridgman: The Serpent's Spell, Amber Ambrosia, Fish & Sphinx
Lauren Brooke: Heartland series, Chestnut Hill series
Kevin Brooks: Candy, Martyn Pig, The Road of the Dead
Alyssa Brugman: Walking Naked
Annie Bryant: Beacon Street Girls series
Eve Bunting: A Sudden Silence
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden, A Little Princess
Niki Burnham: Royally Jacked, Sticky Fingers
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Meg Cabot: The Mediator, 1-800-Where-R-U, The Princess Diaries, All-American Girl, Jinx
Rachel Caine: The Morganville Vampires series
Deb Caletti: The Nature of Jade, The Secret Life of Prince Charming, The Six Rules of Maybe
Peter Cameron: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
W. Bruce Cameron: A Dog's Purpose
Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game
Patrick Carman: Dark Eden
Isobelle Carmody: Obernewtyn Chronicles, Legendsong Saga
Ally Carter: The Gallagher Girls, Heist Society
Cathy Cassidy: Indigo Blue, Scarlett, Gingersnaps
P. C. Cast: House of Night series
Brian Caswell: A Cage of Butterflies, Only the Heart, Double Exposure
Michael Chabon (primarily an author of adult fiction): Summerland
Aidan Chambers: Dance on My Grave, Postcards from No Man's Land
Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Alice Childress: A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich
Mark Childress: One Mississippi, Crazy In Alabama
John Christopher: Prince in Waiting trilogy, Tripods trilogy
Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices
Terri Clark: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Sleepless
Beverly Cleary: Ramona and Beezus, Ramona the Pest, Fifteen
Brock Cole: The Goats
Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl, The Wish List, Half Moon Investigations, The Supernaturalist, And
Another Thing..., Airman
Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier: My Brother Sam Is Dead
Suzanne Collins: The Underland Chronicles, The Hunger Games Trilogy
Ellen Conford: We Interrupt this Semester for an Important Bulletin
Pam Conrad: My Daniel
Caroline B. Cooney: The Face on the Milk Carton, Both Sides of Time, Twenty Pageants Later,
Driver's Ed
Susan Cooper: The Dark is Rising series
Robert Cormier: The Chocolate War, After the First Death, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Fade, I
Am the Cheese, Tenderness, We All Fall Down
Bruce Coville: Aliens Ate My Homework, Space Brat, My Teacher Is an Alien
John Coy: Crackback, Box Out
Sharon Creech: Walk Two Moons, Bloomability, The Wanderer, Chasing Redbird, Absolutely
Normal Chaos, Ruby Holler
Linda Crew: Children of the River
Chris Crutcher: Ironman, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Whale Talk, The Sledding Hill
Jane Louise Curry: The Watchers, A Stolen Life, The Black Canary
Christopher Paul Curtis: The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, Bud, Not Buddy
Karen Cushman: Catherine, Called Birdy
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Anita Daher: Spider's Song
Roald Dahl: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, The Great Automatic
Grammatizator
Linden Dalecki: Kid B
Maureen Daly: Seventeenth Summer
Paula Danziger: The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, The Divorce Express
Terry Davis: Vision Quest, Mysterious Ways, If Rock & Roll Were a Machine
Pamela Dean: Tam Lin, The Secret Country trilogy, The Dubious Hills
Sarah Dessen: Dreamland, Keeping the Moon, The Truth About Forever
Carl Deuker: Heart of a Champion, Runner, Gym Candy
Graham Diamond The Thief of Kalimar, Lady of the Haven
Kate Dicamillo: Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux
Peter Dickinson: The Dancing Bear, Tulku, Eva, AK, The Ropemaker
Berlie Doherty: Dear Nobody, The Snake-Stone, Granny Was a Buffer Girl
Tom Dolby: The Sixth Form
Siobhan Dowd: A Swift Pure Cry, Bog Child
Ann Downer: The Spellkey, The Glass Salamander, The Books of the Keepers
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the Sherlock Holmes stories, written initially for adults
Diane Duane: Young Wizards series
Tessa Duder: Alex Quartet
Lois Duncan: I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin, Summer of Fear
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Jennifer Echols: Forget You, Going Too Far, Love Story, The Boys Next Door, Endless Summer, The
One That I Want, Such A Rush
Chris Edwards: Bull Rider
Simone Elkeles: Perfect Chemistry, Rules of Attraction
Elizabeth Eulberg: The Lonely Hearts Club, Prom & Prejudice, Take a Bow
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Nancy Yi Fan: Swordbird
Nancy Farmer: The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, The House of the Scorpion, The Sea of Trolls
Catherine Fisher: The Book of the Crow, The Oracle Prophecies Trilogy, Darkhenge, Corbenic,
Incarceron
Becca Fitzpatrick: Hush, Hush, Crescendo, Silence
Sharon G. Flake: The Skin I'm In, Money Hungry
Paul Fleischman: Whirligig, A Fate Totally Worse than Death
Alex Flinn: Breathing Underwater, Beastly, Cloaked
Dennis Foon: The Longlight Legacy, Double or Nothing
Antonia Forest: Peter's Room, Thuggery Affair, The Attic Term
Paula Fox: One-Eyed Cat, The Slave Dancer
E.R. Frank: Life Is Funny, America, Wrecked, Friction
Mariah Fredericks: In the Cards: Love, Crunch Time, The True Meaning of Cleavage, Head Games,
The Smart Girl's Guide to Tarot, Fatal Distraction
Benedict & Nancy Freedman: Mrs. Mike
Barbara C. Freeman: The Other Face, A Haunting Air, Snow in the Maze
Cornelia Funke: Inkheart, The Thief Lord, Dragon Rider
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Claudia Gabel: In or Out series, Romeo and Juliet and Vampires
Neil Gaiman: Coraline, The Graveyard Book
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Jack Gantos: Joey Pigza stories, Hole in My Life (autobiography of his youth)
Nancy Garden: Annie on My Mind, The Year They Burned the Books
Alan Garner: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Elidor, The Owl Service, Red Shift
Jean Craighead George: Julie of the Wolves, My Side of the Mountain, Julie
Gail Giles: Shattering Glass
Morris Gleitzman: Two Weeks With the Queen, Puppy Fat, Worry Warts
Anna Godbersen: The Luxe Novels: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor
Parke Godwin: The Tower of Beowulf
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
John Green: Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns
Bette Greene: Summer of My German Soldier
Suresh & Jyoti Guptara: Conspiracy of Calaspia (Insanity Saga)
Rosa Guy: The Friends, The Disappearance
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PJ Haarsma: The Softwire series
Margaret Peterson Haddix: Among the Hidden, Found
Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Shannon Hale: Princess Academy
Barbara Hall: Dixie Storms, House across the Cove, Tempo Change
Lisi Harrison: The Clique
Sonya Hartnett: The Silver Donkey
Pete Hautman: Godless, Invisible
Louise Hawes: The Vanishing Point, Waiting for Christopher, Rosey in the Present Tense
Robert A. Heinlein (primarily an author of science fiction): Red Planet
Claire Hennessy: Dear Diary
Karen Hesse: Out of the Dust, Witness (novels in verse)
Carl Hiaasen: Hoot, Flush, Scat
Charlie Higson: Young Bond
S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Tex, That Was Then, This Is Now
Amanda Hocking: My Blood Approves Series, Switched Trilogy
Anthony Horowitz: Alex Rider
Alice Hoffman: Green Angel
Nina Kiriki Hoffman (primarily an author of science fiction): A Stir of Bones, Spirits That Walk in
Shadow
Jennifer Holm: Our Only May Amelia, Boston Jane
Cathy Hopkins: Mates, Dates series, Cinnamon Girl series
Erin Hunter: The Warriors series, the New Prophecy series, The Power of Three
Mollie Hunter: The Stronghold, A Stranger Came Ashore, Cat, Herself
Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Brian Jacques: Redwall series
A. M. Jenkins: Damage, Repossessed, Night Road
Angela Johnson: Toning the Sweep, Heaven, The First Part Last
Maureen Johnson: 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Girl at Sea, Suite Scarlett, Devilish, The Name of the
Star
Carrie Jones: Need, Captivate, Entice
Diana Wynne Jones: Chrestomanci series, Dalemark Quartet, Fire and Hemlock, Power of Three,
Dark Lord of Derkholm, Year of the Griffin, The Merlin Conspiracy, Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in
the Air, House of Many Ways
Graham Joyce: TWOC, Do the Creepy Thing, Three Ways to Snog an Alien
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Lauren Kate : Fallen, Torment, Passion
Marilyn Kaye: Gifted series
Brian Keaney: Jacob's Ladder, The Haunting of Nathaniel Wolfe, The Private Life of Georgia Brown
Harold Keith: Rifles for Watie
M. E. Kerr: Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack, Little Little, Night Kites, Deliver Us from Evie, Fell,
Gentlehands
Stephen King (primarily an author of adult horror fiction): Carrie, Christine, Cujo
David Klass: Danger Zone, You Don't Know Me
Annette Curtis Klause: The Silver Kiss, Blood and Chocolate
E. L. Konigsburg: Silent to the Bone, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place, The Mysterious Edge of the
Heroic World
Gordon Korman: Bruno and Boots series beginning with This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald
Hall, Island series, Jake, Reinvented, No More Dead Dogs, The 39 Clues: One False Note & The
Emperor's Code
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Lori Lansens: The Girls: A Novel
Justine Larbalestier: Magic or Madness, How to Ditch Your Fairy, Liar
Kathryn Lasky: Blood Secret, Beyond the Burning Time, True North
Iain Lawrence: Lord of the Nutcracker Men
Michael Lawrence: Aldous Lexicon or Withern Rise trilogy
Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness
Madeleine L'Engle: The Time Quartet, Polly O'Keefe series, Austin family series
Tanith Lee: The Castle of Dark, The Claidi Journals, Piratica
Billie Letts: Where The Heart Is
Gail Carson Levine: The Wish, Ella Enchanted, Fairest, Dave at Night, The Two Princesses of
Bamarre
David Levithan: Boy Meets Boy, The Realm of Possibility
C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia
Robert Lipsyte: The Contender, The Brave, The Chief, One Fat Summer
E. Lockhart: The Boyfriend List, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything, Dramarama, The
Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Wendy Loggia: Ever After: A Cinderella Story (novelization)
Lois Lowry: The Giver, The Silent Boy, Number the Stars, Gathering Blue
Louisa Luna: Brave New Girl
Barry Lyga: The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Boy Toy
Frances Lynn: Crushed
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Anne McCaffrey: Dragonriders of Pern series and other fantasy titles
Patricia McCormick: Cut, My Brother's Keeper
Lurlene McDaniel: One Last Wish, Hit and Run, Don't Die, My Love, Till Death Do Us Part
Robin McKinley: Beauty, The Hero and the Crown, Spindle's End, Rose Daughter
Carolyn Mackler: The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Vegan Virgin Valentine, Love
and Other Four Letter Words
Wanita May: Rae of Hope
Lisa McMann: Wake, Fade, Gone
Adeline Yen Mah: Falling Leaves: The Memoirs of A Unwanted Chinese Daughter, Chinese
Cinderella, Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society
Margaret Mahy: Alchemy, The Changeover
Sarra Manning: Let's Get Lost, Fashionistas series, Diary of a Crush series, Pretty Things, Guitar
Girl
Keith Mansfield: Johnny Mackintosh series
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Melina Marchetta: Looking For Alibrandi, Saving Francesca, (On the) Jellicoe Road, Finnikin of the
Rock
Jan Mark: The Eclipse of the Century, Useful Idiots, Riding Tycho, Voyager
Melissa Marr: Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, Fragile Eternity
John Marsden: Tomorrow series
Bobbie Ann Mason: In Country
Sue Mayfield: Drowning Anna
Norma Fox Mazer and Harry Mazer: Heartbeat
Richelle Mead: Vampire Academy, Frostbite, Shadow Kiss, Blood Promise, Spirit Bound, Bloodlines,
The Golden Lily
O. R. Melling: The Hunter's Moon
Melinda Metz: Roswell High, Fingerprints
Stephenie Meyer: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, The Short Second Life of Bree
Tanner, The Host
Ben Mikaelsen: Petey, Touching Spirit Bear
Gloria D. Miklowitz: After the Bomb
Sarah Mlynowski: Bras and Broomsticks
James Moloney: The Book of Lies, Master of the Books
Perry Moore: Hero
Jaclyn Moriarty: The Year of Secret Assignments, Feeling Sorry for Celia, The Murder of Bindy
Mackenzie
Jess Mowry: Way Past Cool, Babylon Boyz
Robert Muchamore: CHERUB series
Walter Dean Myers: Fallen Angels, Hoops, Monster, The Mouse Rap, Outside Shot, Scorpions,
Slam, Bad Boy (autobiography of his youth), Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary
Lauren Myracle: ttyl, ttfn, l8r, g8r, Rhymes with Witches
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Beverley Naidoo: Chain of Fire, No Turning Back, Web of Lies
Donna Jo Napoli: Daughter of Venice, Bound, Sirena
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: Ice, Shiloh
William Nicholson: Wind on Fire trilogy
Joan Lowery Nixon: The Other Side of Dark, The Name of the Game Was Murder
Andre Norton (primarily an author of science fiction): The Stars are Ours!, Star Gate, The Beast
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Joyce Carol Oates (primarily an author of adult fiction): Big Mouth & Ugly Girl, Sexy
Tyne O'Connell: The Calypso Chronicles, True Love, The Sphinx and Other Unsolvable Riddles
Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Zibby Oneal: The Language of Goldfish, A Formal Feeling, In Summer Light
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Christopher Paolini: Inheritance Cycle
Linda Sue Park: A Single Shard, When My Name Was Keoko, The 39 Clues: Storm Warning
Francine Pascal: Sweet Valley High, Fearless series, The Ruling Class
Katherine Paterson: Jacob Have I Loved, Lyddie
James Patterson: Maximum Ride series, Witch and Wizard series, Daniel X series
Gary Paulsen: Hatchet, Canyons, The Island, The River, Brian's Winter, Nightjohn, Sarny, Soldier's
Heart, Dogsong
Jackson Pearce: As You Wish, Sisters Red
Richard Peck: Are You in the House Alone?, Father Figure, The Last Safe Place on Earth, A Long
Way from Chicago, Princess Ashley, A Year Down Yonder
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Robert Newton Peck: Clunie, A Day No Pigs Would Die, Extra Innings
Mal Peet: The Penalty, Keeper, Exposure, Tamar, Life: An Exploded Diagram
Julie Anne Peters: Keeping You a Secret, Define Normal
Stefan Petrucha: TimeTripper
Stella Pevsner: And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine, Cute is a Four-Letter Word
Susan Beth Pfeffer: Life As We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone
Rodman Philbrick: Freak the Mighty, The Fire Pony
Joan Phipson: Dinko, A Tide Flowing, The Watcher in the Garden, Bianca
Christopher Pike: The Season of Passage, Chain Letter and other thrillers
Tamora Pierce: The Song of the Lioness, The Immortals, Protector of the Small, Trickster's Choice,
Trickster's Queen, Provost's Dog, Circle of Magic, The Circle Opens
Daniel Pinkwater: The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
Susan Price: The Sterkarm Handshake, A Sterkarm Kiss, Odin's Voice, Odin's Queen
Connie Porter: Imani All Mine
Francine Prose (primarily an author of adult fiction): After
Anne Provoost: Falling, My Aunt is a Pilot Whale, In the Shadow of the Ark
Philip Pullman: The Ruby in the Smoke, The Broken Bridge, The White Mercedes, The Tin Princess,
His Dark Materials trilogy
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Janette Rallison: It's a Mall World After All, Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List, Life,
Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws
Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game, Figgs & Phantoms
Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows
Carolyn Reeder: Shades of Gray
Celia Rees: Witch Child, Sorceress, The Wish House, The Vanished, The Cunning Man, Pirates!
David Rees: Storm Surge, Quintin's Man, In the Tent, Risks
Sarah Rees Brennan: The Demon's Lexicon, The Demon's Covenant
Philip Reeve: Mortal Engines Quartet, Larklight, Starcross, Here Lies Arthur
Morton Rhue: The Wave, Asphalt Tribe
Ann Rinaldi: A Break with Charity, The Last Silk Dress, Numbering All the Bones, Wolf by the Ears
Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, The Red
Pyramid, The Lost Hero
Thomas Rockwell: How To Eat Fried Worms, How to Fight a Girl
Ginny Rorby: Dolphin Sky, Hurt Go Happy
Malcolm Rose: Traces series, The Death Gene, Plague, Transplant, The Tourtured Wood
Liz Rosenberg: Heart and Soul, 17: A Novel in Prose Poems
Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now, Just in Case, What I Was
J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter series, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Quidditch through the Ages,
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Lois Ruby: Shanghai Shadows
Cynthia Rylant: Missing May
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Louis Sachar: Holes, Small Steps
Françoise Sagan: Bonjour Tristesse
J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey
Graham Salisbury: Shark Bait, Island Boyz, Lord of the Deep, Under the Blood Red Sun, Jungle
Dogs, Eyes of the Emperor
Alex Sánchez: Rainbow Boys, So Hard to Say, Getting It, The God Box
Kurtis Scaletta: Mudville, Mamba Point, The Tanglewood Terror
Ellen Schreiber: Vampire Kisses series
Elizabeth Scott: Bloom, Perfect You, Stealing Heaven, Living Dead Girl, Something Maybe, Love
You Hate You Miss You
Kieran Scott: I Was A Non-Blonde Cheerleader, Geek Magnet
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Lisa See: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Marcus Sedgwick: The Book of Dead Days, The Dark Flight Down, Blood Red, Snow White, My
Swordhand is Singing
Darren Shan: The Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak) series, The Demonata series, The City
series
Dyan Sheldon: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Sara Shepard: Pretty Little Liars series
Gena Showalter: Intertwined
Mark Shulman: Scrawl, Secret Hiding Places
Neal Shusterman: The Dark Side of Nowhere, Downsiders, The Schwa Was Here, Full Tilt
Marilyn Singer: The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth, Horsemaster
William Sleator (primarily high concept sci-fi): House of Stairs, Singularity, The Boy Who Reversed
Himself, Interstellar Pig
L. J. Smith: The Vampire Diaries, Night World, The Forbidden Game, The Secret Circle, Dark
Visions
Sonya Sones: What My Mother Doesn't Know, What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know
Gary Soto: The Afterlife, Baseball in April and other Stories, Living Up the Street
Ivan Southall: Josh, Ash Road, Hills End, To the Wild Sky, Bread and Honey, Fly West, the Simon
Black series.
Beatrice Sparks (publishing as 'Anonymous'): Go Ask Alice, Jay's Journal
Nicholas Sparks: The Notebook, The Last Song, Dear John, A Walk To Remember
Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Eleanor Spence: The October Child, A Candle for St. Antony
Jerry Spinelli: There's a Girl in My Hammerlock, Crash, Stargirl
Nancy Springer: I am Mordred, I am Morgan le Fay, Blood Trail, Dussie
R. L. Stine: The Fear Street series
Shelly Stoehr: Tomorrow Wendy, Crosses
Laurie Faria Stolarz: Blue is for Nightmares, Project 17
Jonathan Stroud: The Bartimaeus Trilogy, The Leap
Rosemary Sutcliff: The Eagle of the Ninth, Warrior Scarlet, The Mark of the Horse Lord
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Janet Tashjian: The Gospel According to Larry, Vote for Larry
Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Land
Jean Thesman: Appointment with a Stranger, Cattail Moon, Calling the Swan, A Sea So Far
Joyce Carol Thomas: Marked by Fire
Rob Thomas: Rats Saw God
Kate Thompson: Annan Water, The Beguilers, The New Policeman
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
Sharon Tregenza: Tarantula Tide
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Eleanor Updale: Montmorency Series
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Vivian Vande Velde: Heir Apparent, User Unfriendly, Never Trust a Dead Man, A Coming Evil,
Dragon's Bait, A Well-Timed Enchantment
Cynthia Voigt: Homecoming, Dicey's Song, Come a Stranger, A Solitary Blue, Sons from Afar, Izzy,
Willy-Nilly, Bad Girls
Cecily von Ziegesar: The Gossip Girl series, The It Girl series
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Judy Waite: Shopaholic, Forbidden
Melissa Walker: Violet on the Runway, Violet by Design, Violet in Private, Lovestruck Summer
Jeannette Walls: The Glass Castle, Half-Broke Horses
James Watson: Talking in Whispers, Ticket to Prague, Justice of the Dagger, Fair Game: The Steps
of Odessa; plays for schools, Banned!, Tom Paine, This Was Your Life, Gotcha!, Wars-R-Us.Co
Catherine Webb: Mirror Dreams, Mirror Wakes, Timekeepers, Waywalkers
Jean Webster: Daddy-Long-Legs, Dear Enemy
Rosemary Wells: Through the Hidden Door
Nancy Werlin: Are You Alone on Purpose, The Killer's Cousin, Locked Inside, Black Mirror, Double
Helix, The Rules of Survival
Scott Westerfeld: Midnighters trilogy, Peeps, The Last Days, Uglies series
Elie Wiesel: Night
Terry Lee Wilde: The Vampire...In My Dreams, Deidre's Secret
Lili Wilkinson: Scatterheart
Ellen Wittlinger: Heart on My Sleeve, Hard Love, What's in A Name
Virginia Euwer Wolff: True Believer, Making Lemonade
Christopher Wooding: Broken Sky, The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, Storm Thief, Poison,
Kerosene, End Game
Jacqueline Woodson: Miracle's Boys
Patricia C. Wrede: Enchanted Forest Chronicles
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Gene Luen Yang: American Born Chinese
Laurence Yep: Liar Liar, The Lost Garden
Jane Yolen: The Pit Dragon Trilogy, Briar Rose, The Devil's Arithmetic
David Yoo: Girls for Breakfast, Stop Me if You've Heard This One Before
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Allen Zadoff: Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have, My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies
Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Timothy Zhan: Dragonback series
Paul Zindel: The Pigman, The Pigman's Legacy, I Never Loved Your Mind, My Darling, My
Hamburger, The Pigman and Me (autobiography of his youth)
Markus Zusak: The Book Thief
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