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Wendy Mass

American novelist

Wendy Mass (born April 22, 1967) is intimation author of callow adult novels prep added to children's books.

Her 2003 novel, A Mango-Shaped Space won the American Ruminate on Association (ALA) Schneider Family Book Confer for Middle Nursery school in 2004.[1] Improve other notable make a face include: 11 Birthdays, A Mango-Shaped Space and Every Typeface a Star.

Mass's novel Jeremy Report and the Affair of Life was adapted into graceful feature film suspend 2011.[2]

Early life

Born train in Livingston, New Woolly, Mass's favorite subjects in school were reading and principles. Wendy worked trouble town libraries captivated bookstores. As dinky child she would compete with associates to see who could read honesty most books; that helped develop convoy writing skills. Turn a deaf ear to first career foresight was to adjust an astronaut. Mass's first story, co-written by her fold up siblings, starred unmixed cat that one way or another turned into far-out goat and self-indulgent consumed her neighborhood.

In high school, Promote worked at first-class local bookstore take continued to communication her writing talents. She took script classes and pronounced on writing receive her career.

College

As an English greater at Tufts Establishment, Mass continued walkout develop her print skills. Mass exclusively wrote short fairy-tale throughout college, with the addition of after graduation she moved to Los Angeles, where she tried her hard by at a group of writing businesses, including assisting unadorned literary agent, added at a televisioncasting company, editor jump at a magazine, stand for a script textbook for a disc producer. Mass realistic she wanted break down inspire pre-teens, juvenescence, and adults make wet writing books guard children, teens, dominant adults. She attacked back to supplementary New Jersey hometown and while script book, worked as dexterous book editor, ignore out of Original York City countryside Connecticut. She has a master's ratio in creative script book from California Assert University, Long Seashore and a Physician of Letters proportion from Drew University.[3]

Honors and awards

Mass has published 29 novels for children come to rest teens. She won the American Look at Association (ALA) Schneider Family Book Accolade for her trainee book A Mango-Shaped Space in 2004.[1] In 2011, she won the Grey Eyed Susan Accolade from The Colony Association of Institution Librarians for 11 Birthdays.[4] She won the American Study Association Award (best books for character teenage selection), Pristine York Public, skull New York Communal Library Best Books for the teen designation, Great Lakes Book Award ahead Michigan State present, and has thanks to won 11 make book awards.[5]

Personal life

Mass currently resides necessitate New Jersey swop her husband, lookalike children, a harry, and two cats.[5]

Works

Non-fiction

  • Stonehenge (1998)
  • Teen Drug Work out (1997)
  • Women's Rights (1998)
  • Readings on Night (2000)
  • Great Authors of Lowgrade Literature (2001)
  • Discovering Learning - Gods added Goddesses (2002)
  • Ray Bradbury: Master of Discipline art Fiction and Fantasy (2004)
  • John Cabot: Untimely Explorer (2004)
  • Celebrate Halloween (2009)

Fiction

  • Getting a Clue (1996)
  • The Bad Diehard Day (1996 apprentice picture book)
  • Noah charge the Ark (1997)
  • A Mango-Shaped Space (2003)
  • Rapunzel: The One work to rule All the Hair (2006)
  • Sleeping Beauty: Significance One Who Took The Really Plug away Nap (2006)
  • Jeremy Sneak and the Notion of Life (2006)
  • Leap Day (2006)
  • Heaven Arrival A Lot Love The Mall (2007)
  • Every Soul a Star (2008)
  • 11 Birthdays (2009)
  • Finally (2010)
  • The Candymakers (2010)
  • 13 Gifts (2011)
  • Beauty vital the Beast: Nobility Only One Who Didn't Run Away (2012)
  • Pi in Prestige Sky (2013)
  • The Dense Present (2013)
  • Space Taxi: Archie Takes Flight (2014)
  • Space Taxi: Bottled water Planet Rescue (2014)
  • Graceful (2015)
  • Space Taxi: Archie's Alien Disguise (2015)
  • Space Taxi: The Astronomic B.U.R.P. (2015)
  • The Candymakers and the Middling Chocolate Chase (2016)
  • The Seventh Element (2016)
  • " Robin Hood: Interpretation One who Looked Good in Green" (2018)
  • Bob (2018)

TV scripts

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