Megan Whalen Turner
Megan Whalen Turner is the award-winning author of fantasy novels set in the world of the Queen's Thief. She has been awarded a Newbery Honor and a Horn Book-Boston Globe Honor and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature. She has won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature and was a finalist for the Andre Norton Award. She worked as a bookseller for seven years before she started writing. Her first book was a collection of short stories called Instead of...See more
Megan Whalen Turner is the award-winning author of fantasy novels set in the world of the Queen's Thief. She has been awarded a Newbery Honor and a Horn Book-Boston Globe Honor and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature. She has won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature and was a finalist for the Andre Norton Award. She worked as a bookseller for seven years before she started writing. Her first book was a collection of short stories called Instead of Three Wishes . See less
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Megan Whalen Turner book reviews
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Instead of Three Wishes
Instead of Three Wishes
by MikeMcL, Oct 20, 2011
This collection of upbeat stories blends magic and Twilight Zone fantasy, and about half of them make for great short readalouds to kids ages 11 and up. Turner writes crisply and wryly, dropping in ... Read More
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The Queen of Attolia
LOVE this series
by debbie p, Dec 30, 2010
Please read the first in the series - The Thief -a Newbery winner. If only all young adult literature was written as well! Very well constructed with VERY high vocabulary. Although it is not ... Read More
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The Thief
Very good first book in a series
by MomOfSix, Aug 23, 2009
I almost quit reading this book because the character, Gen, was so cocky as he told his own story. But I stuck with it, and I am glad I did. The end was a surprise indeed. Before you start this ... Read More