Wendelin Van Draanen
Autor de Flipped
Sobre El 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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Wendelin Van Draanen
Shredderman 23 copias
The peach rebellion 2 copias
Sammy und das Elfenkind. 1 copia
The Peach Rebellion 1 copia
Sammy Keyes Mystery Casebook 1 copia
Flipped 1 copia
Shredderman Hardcover Set of Books 1 - 4, 1 - Secret Identity, 2 - Attack of the Tagger, 3 - Meet the Gecko and 4 -… (2005) 1 copia
Sammy Keyes 1 copia
SWER TO HOWDY 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 01-06
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Chicago, Illinois, USA (born)
San Luis Obispo, California, USA - Ocupaciones
- high school computer science teacher
- Relaciones
- 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) (mostrar todos 7)
Nanine (sister)
Miembros
Reseñas
Gravity Is Bringing Me Down por Wendelin Van Draanen
Leda is having a tough day - gravity is tripping her up and bringing her down. After school, Leda's mom brings her to her "happy place" (the Discover - Learn - Play Children's Museum), where Leda climbs, bounces, slides, and even "flies" in the rocket simulator. Equilibrium restored, Leda heads home in a better mood, and after dinner, gravity helps her fall into bed.
Slow start for me (put it away in first chapter but then picked it up again) but became an sweet, enjoyable glimpse into both perspectives of their personal growth.
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.… (más)
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.… (más)
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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- Obras
- 56
- Miembros
- 13,455
- Popularidad
- #1,726
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 401
- ISBNs
- 579
- Idiomas
- 6
- Favorito
- 6
