Carolyn Meyer

Thanks for clicking here! I've written more than fifty books for teens and young readers, and now I want to meet you in virtual person. If you'd like to know more about the pages in my site:

-- Check out My Books, and find out something about My Life.

-- Look over my shoulder at my Writer's Journal as I work on my latest project (sometimes more than one).


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-- Book Report due? Miss Frankenberry is here to help!


-- Confidential to Teachers: this page is for you. Be sure to read the letter from Anna. It's why we do what we do.

WHAT I'M READING NOW:

RECENTLY READ:The Night Circusby Erin Morgenstern; How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman; The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot;Freedom by Jonathan Franzen - Huge, fat novel; Franzen really knows how to play out a scene; The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver - Fascinating historical reading; The Room by Emma Donoghue - how did she maintain the voice of a 5-year-old narrator?; The Help by Kathryn Stockett - 3 people came up to me in the airport and asked "Isn't that a great book!" Just saw the movie; good, but the book was better; The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - OMG!; Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool - Newbery winner; War by Sebastian Junger - engrossing and horrifying; Wrecker by Summer Wood - fine novel about a challenging kid, beautifully written; Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff - terrific biography; The March by E. L. Doctorow - Civil War story, great storytelling

ON THE PILE:
Searching for Chipeta by Vickie Leigh Krudwig - story of a Ute Indian
The Lady in the Palazzo by Marlena de Blasi - because of the recipes