Welcome to the online home of author Frances O’Roark Dowell
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If you are a student working on a book report or homework assignment, you’ll find most of the information you are looking for in the Biography section, but also please be sure to check out the Writing Advice for Kids section, which is full of tips and creative writing prompts for young writers.
Adult readers here to learn more about Frances’s quilting stories can start in the Quilting Fiction section to learn more about her novel Birds in the Air and her book of short stories, Margaret Goes Modern.
Frances O’Roark Dowell is the award-winning author of such novels as Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Children’s Book Award; the bestselling Secret Language of Girls trilogy; Shooting the Moon, which received a Christopher Award; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; the teen novel, Ten Miles Past Normal; and the new Sam the Man series for younger readers. Her first for adult readers was the quilting novel Birds in the Air, which was followed by a short story collection about the quilting life titled Margaret Goes Modern.
New in October 2019
Twenty Kids. Twenty points of view. One rambunctious, brilliantly conceived novel that corrals the seeming chaos (c’mon, TWENTY points of view!) into one effervescent story.
Sixth grade is a MOST confusing time. Best friends aren’t friends anymore. Worst enemies suddenly want to be partners in crime. And classmates you thought you knew have all sorts of surprising stuff going on. The kids in Mrs. Herrera’s class are dealing with all these things and more—specifically, three more:
1. There’s a new girl who just seems to be spying on them all and scribbling things in a notebook. Maybe she IS a spy?
2. Someone is stealing all of Mrs. Herrera’s most treasured items.
3. Their old classmate, Sam, keeps showing up and no one knows why…until they do.
Which leads to a fourth problem. But we can’t tell you about that yet. The twenty kids in Mrs. Herrera’s classroom can, though, and they do.
Every. Single. One. Of. Them.
“Every person that reads this book with identify with at least one student in the class ... I will not only be buying several copies of this for my school library but will recommend this as a read aloud to the classroom teachers.”
What Reviewers Are Saying
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