- Abby Klein
Author Abby Klein writes humorous stories for elementary-aged children. Her first published series, Ready, Freddy!, uses her classroom experiences to create humorous and dramatic scenarios for first-grader Freddy Thresher.
Abby Klein was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She received her undergraduate education at Dartmouth College, where she completed majors in psychology and education. She earned a master’s degree in reading and language development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is now an elementary school teacher and has taught kindergarten and first-grade in the Los Angeles area for over fifteen years, where she also lives with her husband, children, and dogs. She is also a teacher-leader in her district and has presented workshops for the district and her school on reading, writing, and literacy.
Her first published series is titled Ready, Freddy!, where she uses her experiences in the classroom and her sense of humor as she writes about first-grader Freddy Thresher.
Published works
Series
Ready, FreddyNovels
King of Show-and-Tell (2004)
Homework Hassles (2004)
Tooth Trouble (2004)
Ready, Freddy! (2004)
Don’t Sit on My Lunch (2005)
Talent Show Scaredy-Pants (2005)
Help! A Vampire’s Coming! (2005)
Yikes! Bikes! (2006)
Halloween Fraidy-Cat(2006)
Shark Tooth Tale (2006)
Super-Secret Valentine (2007)
Stop that Hamster! (2007)
The Pumpkin Elf Mystery (2007)
Thanksgiving Turkey Trouble (2008)
Camping Catastrophe (2008)
The One Hundredth Day of School (2008)External links
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=2897
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