Written by American author Max Brallier, The Last Kids on Earth is a book series for children about a group of kids surviving and having fun at the end of the world. Ever since the monster apocalypse hit town, average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house, which he’s armed to the…
American actor, singer, and author Chris Colfer became famous for his role in the television musical show Glee in which he played Kurt Hummel. During his time on the show, he started to write. First, as a screenwriter for the movie Struck by Lightning (2012), then as a Children Fantasy writer with The Land of…
Former Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Alexander McCall Smith is a best-selling British writer who started by publishing academic texts and children’s books. In fact, before becoming known as a successful fiction writer, he was a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served…
Written by Nathan Hale, the series Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales is about a spy named Nathan Hale who, with the help of some comic book magic, lived through the most important event in American History. Everything begins when Hale is about to be hung. His last words were ‘I regret that I have but one…
Big Nate is about a spunky eleven-year-old named Nate Wright who holds the school record for detentions and is in little chance of losing that distinction, but that doesn’t stop him from dreaming big! He’s a self-described genius, a sixth-grade renaissance man, and a full-fledged believer in his future as a cartoonist. Big Nate is…
Written by a Canadian author from Toronto named Sienna Mercer, My Sister the Vampire is an urban fantasy series for young readers. The series is about Olivia Abbott who transfers to Franklin Grove Middle School where she discovers her long-lost identical twin, vampire Ivy Vega. The sisters are very different, one is a cheerleader, the…
From American author Shannon Messenger, the Keeper of the Lost Cities series is about a young girl in search of the truth. The story is about a twelve-year-old high school senior named Sophie Foster. She can read minds and discovers that she is not the only one possessing this particular talent. When she learns about…
Coming from American author Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society series is a children’s book series. The story is about the adventures of four young children, Reynie Muldoon, George “Sticky” Washington, Kate Wetherall, and Constance Contraire, who are each gifted in different areas. But they have one thing in common: they are either orphans…
Written by English writer Jill Murphy, The Worst Witch is a children’s book series about Mildred Hubble, a good-hearted, but bungling young witch-in-training, who never seems to get anything right. As a very popular book series for children, The Worst Witch has been adapted multiple times: the first time in 1986 as a television film,…
Written by children’s book author Tracey West–known for her Pokémon and SpongeBob SquarePants books–the Dragon Masters series is a Scholastic book series revolving around a boy and his Dragon! The story is about Drake who, until he was chosen to train his very own dragon, never even thought dragons were real. But they are! Now,…
Written and illustrated by Rachel Renée Russell, Dork Diaries is a children’s book series about Nikki Maxwell, a misfit kid who lives with a weird family. She chronicles her life through text and art-her move to a new school, her battles with queen bee MacKenzie, and her zany adventures with her BFFs Chloe and Zoey…
Born on August 10, 1962, in Hartford, Connecticut, Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and author. She began her career in 1991 as a writer for children’s television shows, before she began to write children’s books. Her debut book, Gregor the Overlander is published in 2003. She has been named one of Time magazine’s…
