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! Books that didn’t have really cool sites of their own have been linked to Barnes & Noble pages that include reviews and summaries.

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 List and authors whose works were selected for this project by Mrs. Scott and myself.

Understand? Great, grand, wonderful!

Happy clicking!

-Mrs. N

2010 KBA 6-8 Master List Books

• Leslie Connor - author of Waiting for Normal
• Wick Downing - author of The 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 The 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

7th-8th Grade Project Books (chosen especially for you)

• Peter Abrahams – author of Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery
• Laurie Halse Anderson – author of Chains: Seeds of America
• M. T. Anderson - author of Thirsty
• Nora Raleigh Baskin – author of Anything but Typical
• Joan Bauer – author of Peeled
• Sigmund Brouwer – author of Absolute Pressure
• Jennifer Bryant – author of Kaleidoscope Eyes
• Elizabeth Bunce – author of A Curse as Dark as Gold
• Ann E. Burg – author of All the Broken Pieces: A Novel in Verse
• Orson Scott Card – author of Ender’s Game
• Kristin Cashore – author of Graceling
• Suzanne Collins – author of The Hunger Games
• Ann Dee Ellis – author of This is What I Did
• Allegra Goodman – author of The Other Side of the Island
• Alan Gratz – author of The Brooklyn Nine: A Novel in Nine Innings
• Margaret Peterson Haddix – author of Running Out of Time
• Brendan Halpin – author of How Ya Like Me Now
• V. M. Jones – author of Out of Reach
• Kim Kane – author of Pip, the Story of Olive
• Jacquline Kelly – author of The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
• Gordon Korman – author of No More Dead Dogs
• E. Lockhart – author of The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
• Dene Low – author of The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival: Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone
• Carolyn Mackler – author of The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things
• Rafe Martin – author of Birdwing
• Carolyn Meyer – author of The True Adventures of Charley Darwin
• Walter Dean Myers – author of Sunrise Over Fallujah
• Donna Jo Napoli – author of Alligator Bayou
• Mary Pearson – author of The Adoration of Jenna Fox
• Susan Beth Pfeffer – author of Life as We Knew It and The Dead and the Gone
• Ellen Potter – author of Slob
• Terry Pratchett – author of Nation
• Jeff Rud – author of Paralyzed
• Lisa Schroeder – author of I Heart You, You Haunt Me
• Neal Shusterman – author of Antsy Does Time and Unwind
• Andrew Smith – author of Ghost Medicine
• Suzanne Supplee – author of Artichoke’s Heart
• Mark Twain – author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Jenny Valentine – author of Me, the Missing, and the Dead
• Daniel Waters – author of Generation Dead and Kiss of Life
• Will Weaver – author of Super Stock Rookie
• Nancy Werlin – author of Impossible
• Kate Wild – author of Fight Game
• Laurence Yep – author of Dragon Road
• Sara Zarr – author of Sweethearts
• Various Authors – Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales