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Wendelin Van Draanen

Författare till Flipped

55 verk 13,001 medlemmar 393 recensioner 6 favoritmärkta

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Wendelin Van Draanen was born on January 6, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of chemists who emigrated from Holland. She worked as a math teacher and then as a computer science teacher before becoming an author. Wendelin Van Draanen began her writing career with a screenplay and soon visa mer switched to adult novels and then children's books. She is best known for her Sammy Keyes series of novels, which she started writing in 1997, featuring a teenage detective named Samantha Keyes. Her popular Sammy Keyes series had been nominated four times for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children's Mystery and won with "Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief". Her Shredderman series also yielded a Christopher Medal for Secret Identity. She has also written several novels such as: How I Survived Being a Girl and Flipped. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Verk av Wendelin Van Draanen

Flipped (2001) 4,004 exemplar
The Running Dream (2011) 1,136 exemplar
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief (1998) 1,072 exemplar
Shredderman: Secret Identity (2004) 692 exemplar
Runaway (2006) 390 exemplar
Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf (1999) 375 exemplar
How I Survived Being a Girl (1997) 319 exemplar
Sammie och taveltjuven (2003) 314 exemplar
Wild Bird (2017) 278 exemplar
Swear to Howdy (2003) 255 exemplar
Shredderman: Enemy Spy (2005) 178 exemplar
Shredderman: Meet the Gecko (2005) 171 exemplar
Confessions of a Serial Kisser (2008) 162 exemplar
Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things (2007) 154 exemplar
Shredderman 23 exemplar
Flipped [2010 film] (2010) — Writer — 22 exemplar
The Peach Rebellion (2022) 21 exemplar
Gravity Is Bringing Me Down (2024) 11 exemplar
The Peach Rebellion (2023) 6 exemplar
Flipped 1 exemplar
Sammy Keyes 1 exemplar
SWER TO HOWDY 1 exemplar

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Wren gets taken in the middle of the night to a juvenile boot camp in the desert. When she's grabbed she's angry, drunk, and her parents are kind of at the end of their ropes. Over the eight weeks she's in the program, she transforms physically and emotionally.
Her change begins to transform her relationship with herself and the relationship with the rest of her family.
There is action in the outdoor survival things she learns. But a lot of the change is intra and interpersonal.
Compelling.
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½
 
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ewyatt | 10 andra recensioner | Mar 25, 2024 |
plot was good and it was ok when character was interacting with adults. Felt it fell apart a bit when she was interacting with her peers, dialogue not believable
 
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cspiwak | 9 andra recensioner | Mar 6, 2024 |
Great young adult fiction. Great recommendation for female athletes!
 
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mjphillips | 65 andra recensioner | Feb 23, 2024 |

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Verk
55
Medlemmar
13,001
Popularitet
#1,797
Betyg
4.0
Recensioner
393
ISBN
558
Språk
6
Favoritmärkt
6

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