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 * //Everybody is a Star - Let your light shine!//**

Welcome to my wiki. I am a high school librarian who wants to find books that teens like to read.
Your comments and suggestions are appreciated. //Speak// by Laurie Anderson //Romiette and Julio// by Sharon Draper //Tears of a Tiger// by Sharon Draper //Eragon// by Christopher Paolini //Harry Potter// series by J. K. Rowling //Monster// by Walter Dean Myers //Stormbreaker// by Anthony Horowitz //Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging// by Louise Rennison Any book by Lurlene McDaniel //Midnight Predator// and other books by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes //Pendragon// series by DJ MacHale //Magic Kingdom// series by Terry Brooks //Sabriel// and other books by Garth Nix The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
 * Popular High School Books**
 * Popular High School Books**
 * Popular Authors selected by High School Students and information about their lives:**

Maya Angelou got into writing in New York City, where she was part of a circle of writers who regularly shared their work with one another. In 1954 she went on a national tour in the musical //Porgy and Bess//. A year after that she taught modern dance in Rome and in Tel Aviv, Israel. All throughout the 1950s, she was featured in several successful off-Broadway plays and sang in various nightclubs. She made her Broadway debut in 1973. Maya also has appeared in //Roots// for which she won a Golden Eagle Award for Best Supporting Actress. Maya is also a Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake forest in North Carolina. Her book //I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings// was a National Book Award nominee in 1970 and her 1972 collection of poetry, //Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie,// was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
 * Maya Angelou**

Charles Dickens was born February 7th 1812. Charles Dickens in 1834 became a political journalist performing preliminary debates all across Britain. His work on this was published in newspapers. In April of 1836 he married his wife Catherine Hogart. She was editor of Evening Chronicles. They lived in Bloomsbury where they had ten children. Also in 1836 he took a job editing and produced several books like Oliver’s Twist and Master Humphrey’s Clock. In 1843 he wrote one of his most popular books A Christmas Carol (which is my favorite). Between 1844-1870 Charles Dickens wrote nine other books. Most of Dickens work was his opinion.
 * Charles Dickens**

Anne was a young girl who lived during the time of Hitler. Anne and the Frank family were Jews. They had to go into hiding from Hitler and his men. They lived up in the attic of Otto her father’s store. Many family friends who were not in hiding brought them the supplies they needed to survive. This was a very dangerous task for those people but they risked it for the Franks. Later though, the Franks were taken and sent to concentration camps. When they left, Margot, one of the people that was helping them came up and found Anne’s diary that she had written while in hiding. Margot kept the diary. When only Otto returned from the concentration camp Margot gave Mr. Frank his daughter’s diary. He at first did not want to publish it, but with more thought he decided to publish his daughter’s diary, //Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.//
 * Anne Frank:**

Stephen King had a rough childhood. His father walked out on their family when King was only two years old. His wife pushed him into getting __Carrie__ published after digging it out of the trash and reading it. However, it wasn’t until the second release of __Carrie__ (resembling the movie) that it became popular. He has a total of thirty-nine works under his belt; three of the books are part of The Dark Tower Trilogy.
 * Stephen King**

Joan Lowry Nixon has been called the “grande dame,” or great lady, of young adult mysteries. Nixon always knew she wanted to write. She had her first publication at the age of ten—a poem in a children’s magazine. During WWII she used her literary talent to write letters to servicemen. Nixon graduated from the University of Southern California with a major in journalism, but when she sought a job she had to compete with returning war correspondents, so Nixon took a job as a substitute elementary school teacher. She married Hershell “Nick” Nixon and had four children. When Nixon began to think about writing for children, her oldest daughters, Kathy and Maureen, told her that she had to write a mystery about them. The result was __The Mystery of Hurricane Castle__ and the main characters were Kathy and Maureen Nickson. Her first work aimed at the young adult audience was __The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore.__ It won the 1980 Edgar Allen Poe Best Juvenile Mystery Award. Nixon is the only writer ever to have won four Edgars.
 * Joan Lowry Nixon**

My favorite of Nixon’s books is __The Other Side of Dark__. It is the story of Stacy McAdams, who has been in a semi-comatose state for four years after being shot in the head at age thirteen. During her coma, she was strangely able to move around while being totally unaware of her surroundings. Of course, during those four years Stacy has acquired some curves she didn’t have before, and she feels like she is in the wrong body. She learns that the man who shot her also murdered her mother. Stacy realizes that she saw his face just as he lifted the gun to shoot her, and she is the only witness. When she lets the fact that she knows what the killer looks like slip to the media, Stacy becomes the target of the killer for the second time. And this time, he means to kill her.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s best friend was author C.S. Lewis. They met every Tuesday and Thursday to share beer and conversation and to critique each other's work. "The Inklings," was the name they called their group of writers. It included J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Lewis's brother, Warnie. His best work and my favorite books of all time, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, were some of the works that they critiqued. Tolkien volunteered for the British Army during WWI and was made a Second Lieutenant. After the war he helped work on the Oxford English Dictionary. Tolkien was a professor at Merton College after that. The Silmarillion, the prequel to the Hobbit, was not finished when he died and his son Christopher completed it.
 * J.R.R. Tolkien**