Book Bytes

I thought that this page would be a good place to gather some links to websites for or about the authors of your project books. If I couldn’t find an official site for the author, then I linked to an official biography or a Wikipedia article. Also, as I was searching for info on the authors, I noticed that some books had pretty cool online content and decided to include that, too!

Feel free to use these for information and inspiration when it comes to writing your comments and creating your book videos. I’ll probably ask at least ONE question over the next few weeks that requires you to look at some of this material.

These will be divided into two sections – authors whose work was on the 2010 Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master Lists and authors whose works were selected for this project by Mrs. Scott and myself.

Understand? Great, grand, wonderful!

Happy clicking!

-Mrs. N

2010 KBA 3-5 Master List Books (for 5th Graders)

• Avi – author of Iron Thunder
• Eric Berlin – author of The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
• Peggy Gifford – author of Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little
• Heather Henson – author of That Book Woman
• Gordon Korman – author of Swindle
• Lois Lowry – author of The Willoughbys
• Ann M. Martin – author of The Runaway Dolls
• Kristin Wolden Nitz – author of Saving the Griffin
• Dorothy Patent – author of When the Wolves Returned: Restoring Nature’s Balance in Yellowstone
• Jack Prelutsky – author of My Dog May Be a Genius
• Patricia Reilly Giff – author of Eleven
• Sharon Robinson – author of Slam Dunk!
• Ann Shelby – author of The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales

2010 KBA 6-8 Master List Books (for 6th Graders)

• Leslie Connor – author of Waiting for Normal
• Wick Downing – author of Trials of Kate Hope
• Neil Gaiman – author of The Graveyard Book
• M. H. Herlong – author of The Great Wide Sea
• Carl Hiaasen – author of SCAT
• Ingrid Law – author of Savvy
• Wendy Mass – author of Every Soul a Star
• Walter Dean Myers – author of Game
• Sally Nichols – author of Ways to Live Forever
• Rodman Philbrick – author of Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
• Gary D. Schmidt – author of Trouble
• Jon Scieszka – author of Knucklehead
• Annie Wedekind -author of  A Horse of Her Own

5th-6th Grade Project Books (chosen especially for you)

• Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling – editors of Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales
• Tony Abbot – author of The Postcard
• Joan Aiken – author of The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories
• M. T. Anderson – author of Whales on Stilts
• Katherine Applegate - author of Home of the Brave
• Avi – author of Hard Gold: The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859
• Lauren Baratz-Logsted – author of Annie’s Adventures (Book #1 – The Sisters
• Eric Berlin – author of The Potato Chip Puzzles (Book #2 – The Puzzling World of Winston Breen)
• Edward Bloor – author of Story Time
• Elise Broach – author of Masterpiece
• Simon Cheshire – author of The Curse of the Ancient Mask and Other Case Files (Saxby Smart)
• Andrew Clements – author of Extra Credit
• Eoin Colfer – author of Artemis Fowl (series)
• Suzanne Collins – author of Gregor the Overlander (series)
• Priscilla Cummings – author of Red Kayak
• Joseph Delaney – author of Revenge of the Witch (Book #1 – The Last Apprentice)
• Ann D. Ellis – author of Everything is Fine
• Louise Fitzhugh – author of Harriet the Spy
• Vivian French – author of The Robe of Skulls
• Jessica Day George – author of Dragon Slippers
• Margaret Peterson Haddix – author of Found
• Mary Downing Hahn – author of Deep, Dark and Dangerous: A Ghost Story
• Katherine Hannigan – author of Ida B. : And Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster and (Possibly) Save the World
• Carl Hiassen – author of Hoot
• Polly Horvath – author of My One Hundred Adventures
• Brian Jacques – author of Redwall
• Rosa Jordan – author of The Goatnappers
• Derek Landy – author of Skulduggery Pleasant
• C. S. Lewis – author of The Magician’s Nephew
• Lois Lowry – author of Gossamer
• Mike Lupica – author of The Big Field
• Wendy Mass – author of 11 Birthdays
• Babara Mitchelhill – author of The Mystery of the Missing Mutts (Damian Drooth: Super Sleuth)
• Rita Murphy – author of Bird
• Scott O’Dell – author of Island of the Blue Dolphins
• James Patterson – author of The Dangerous Days of Daniel X (series)
• Richard Peck – author of A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
• Stephanie True Peters – author of Football Double Threat
• Rodman Philbrick – author of Freak the Mighty
• Daniel Pinkwater – author of The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and Saved Civilization
• James Preller – author of Six Innings: A Game in the Life
• Adam Rex – author of The True Meaning of Smekday
• Rick Riordan – author of The Lightning Thief (Book #1 – Percy Jackson and the Olympians)
• John H. Ritter – author of The Deperado Who Stole Baseball
• Brandon Sanderson – author of Alcatraz and the Evil Librarians
• Neal Shusterman – author of Everlost
• Lauren Tarshis – author of Emma Jean Lazarus Fell in Love
• Wendelin Van Draanen – author of Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy
• Vivian Vande Velde – author of Stolen
• Ruth White – author of Way Down Deep
• Suzanne Williams – author of Bull Rider
• Jacqueline Woodson – author of Peace, Locomotion