Jean Thesman

Jean Thesman is a popular and award-winning [ [http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000018820,00.html Penguin website] .] [ [http://www.jeanthesman.com/events.htm Awards page] ] novelist for young adults [ [http://www.sfsite.com/05b/oth57.htm SF Site] ] whose predominant theme is the heroine finding her place in the world by coming to understand her family. [ [http://www.carolhurst.com/newsletters/23bnewsletters.html#raincatchers Carol Hurst] ] [ [http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring95/Clip_and_file.html#Thesman The Alan Review] ] "I loved telling the story, because I really believed that families were made up of the people you "wanted", not the people you were stuck with." —Emily Shepherd [Jean Thesman, "In the House of the Queen's Beasts" (Viking, 2001, p.79).]

Biography

"My mother taught me to read before I started school, but I had to wait to be six before I could have a library card." Author's quote from her website. ]

"In 25 years, I wrote 40 books. Most of them came out under my own name, but a few were published under the name T.J. Bradstreet."

She is married and lives in Bothell, Washington, and is a member of The Authors Guild and the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. [ [http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=878 Houghton Mifflin website] .]

References

Works

*1984 "New Kid In Town"
*1985 "A Secret Love"
*1985 "Two Letters for Jenny"
*1987 "The Last April Dancers"
*1987 "Running Scared"
*1988 "Appointment with a Stranger"
*1988 "Was It Something I Said?"
*1989 "Couldn't I Start Over?"
*1990 "Rachel Chance"
*1991 "The Rain Catchers"
*1991 "Who Said Life Is Fair?"
*1992 "When The Road Ends"
*1993 "Molly Donnelly"
*1994 "Cattail Moon"
*1994 "Nothing Grows Here"
*1995 "A Night to Remember" (contribution)
*1995 "Summerspell"
*1996 "The Ornament Tree"
*1997 "Be Mine" (contribution)
*1997 "The Storyteller's Daughter"
*1998 "The Moonstones"
*1999 " The Other Ones"
*1999 "The Tree of Bells"
*2000 "Calling The Swan"
*2001 "In The House Of The Queen's Beasts"
*2001 "A Sea So Far"
*2002 "Between"
*2003 " Rising Tide"
*2005 " Singer"

The Whitney Cousins series

*1990 "Amelia"
*1990 "Erin"
*1990 "Heather"
*1992 "Triple Trouble"

The Birthday Girls series

*1992 "I'm Not Telling"
*1992 "Mirror, Mirror"
*1992 "Who Am I, Anyway?"

The Elliott Cousins series

*1998 "Jamie"
*1998 "Meredith"
*1998 "Teresa"

As T.J. Bradstreet

*1995 "Kitty's Wish"
*1996 "Lorna's Wish"
*1996 "Wendy's Wish"
*1997 "Before She Wakes"

External links

* [http://www.jeanthesman.com/ Jean Thesman] — Homepage of the author