Wendelin Van Draanen

Autor/a de Flipped

56 obres 13,447 Membres 399 Ressenyes 6 preferits

Sobre l'autor

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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys

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Sammy Keyes

Shredderman

The Gecko and Sticky

Obres de Wendelin Van Draanen

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Flipped (2001) 4,004 exemplars

The Running Dream (2011) 1,136 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief (1998) 1,072 exemplars

Shredderman: Secret Identity (2004) 692 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy (1999) 662 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man (1998) 534 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Moustache Mary (2000) 495 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy (2001) 446 exemplars

Runaway (2006) 390 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf (1999) 375 exemplars

How I Survived Being a Girl (1997) 319 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception (2003) 314 exemplars

Shredderman: Attack of the Tagger (2004) 283 exemplars

Wild Bird (2017) 278 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes (2002) 256 exemplars

Swear to Howdy (2003) 255 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway (2005) 209 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Psycho Kitty Queen (2004) 196 exemplars

Shredderman: Enemy Spy (2005) 178 exemplars

Shredderman: Meet the Gecko (2005) 171 exemplars

Confessions of a Serial Kisser (2008) 162 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things (2007) 154 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash (2008) 124 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Wedding Crasher (2010) 93 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Power of Justice Jack (2012) 67 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Night of Skulls (2011) 65 exemplars

The Gecko and Sticky: Villain's Lair (2009) 63 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Showdown in Sin City (2013) 55 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Kiss Goodbye (2014) 54 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Killer Cruise (2013) 52 exemplars

The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones (2016) 48 exemplars

The Gecko and Sticky: The Greatest Power (2009) 44 exemplars

The Gecko and Sticky: Sinister Substitute (2009) 36 exemplars

Hope in the Mail: Reflections on Writing and Life (2020) 32 exemplars

Shredderman 23 exemplars

Flipped [2010 film] (2010) — Writer — 22 exemplars

The Gecko and Sticky: The Power Potion (2010) 22 exemplars

The Peach Rebellion (2022) 21 exemplars

Gravity Is Bringing Me Down (2024) 11 exemplars

Mr. Whiskers and the Shenanigan Sisters (2023) 10 exemplars

The Peach Rebellion (2023) 6 exemplars

The peach rebellion 2 exemplars

Sammy und das Elfenkind. ( Ab 10 J.). 2 exemplars

Sammy und der Schatz der bärtigen Mary. 2 exemplars

The Peach Rebellion 1 exemplars

Sammy und das Elfenkind. 1 exemplars

Sammy Keyes Mystery Casebook 1 exemplars

Flipped 1 exemplars

[(The Running Dream)] [Author: Wendelin Van Draanen] published on (March, 2012) (2012) 1 exemplars

SARA KAY T01 : L'ÉNIGME DE LA CHAMBRE 423 (2007) 1 exemplars

Les mystères de santa marina tome 2 (2007) 1 exemplars

Sammy Keyes and the Boyz in the Band 1 exemplars

Shredderman Hardcover Set of Books 1 - 4, 1 - Secret Identity, 2 - Attack of the Tagger, 3 - Meet the Gecko and 4 -… (2005) 1 exemplars

Sammy Keyes 1 exemplars

Sara Kay et la croix d'ivoire (2005) 1 exemplars

SWER TO HOWDY 1 exemplars

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Data de naixement: 01-06
Gènere: female
Nacionalitat: USA
Llocs de residència: Chicago, Illinois, USA (born)
San Luis Obispo, California, USA
Professions: high school computer science teacher
Relacions: Parsons, Mark (husband)
Colton (son)
Connor (son)
Van Draanen, Peter (father, deceased)
Van Draanen, Mark (brother, deceased)
Van Draanen, Sybrichje Marie Agneta van der Meijden (aka 'Mieske') (mother) (mostra-les totes 7)
Nanine (sister)

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Wild Bird de Wendelin Van Draanen

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.… (més)

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ewyatt | Hi ha 10 ressenyes més | Mar 25, 2024 |

Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man de Wendelin Van Draanen

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 | Hi ha 9 ressenyes més | Mar 6, 2024 |