Karen McCombie

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Karen McCombie
Born Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K.
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karenmccombie.com

Karen McCombie is a Scottish author of children's books and young adult novels. [1] McCombie has published more than 100 books.[ citation needed ] In 2021, Waterstones described her as "one of children's fiction's most accomplished authors". [2]

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Life

McCombie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland.[ citation needed ] Growing up, her favorite book series was Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series. [3] McCombie wrote her first book at age 34, at which time she was working as a magazine journalist. [3]

She lives in London with her husband Tom, and their son Eddy.[ citation needed ]

Series

Ally's World

  1. The Past, the Present and the Loud, Loud Girl. Scholastic. 2010. ISBN   978-1-4071-1761-4.
  2. Dates, Double Dates and Big, Big Trouble
  3. Butterflies, Bullies and Bad, Bad Habits
  4. Friends, Freak-outs and Very Secret Secrets
  5. Boys, Brothers and Jelly-Belly Dancing
  6. Sisters, Super-creeps and Slushy, Gushy Love Songs
  7. Parties, Predicaments and Undercover Pets
  8. Tattoos, Tell-tales and Terrible, Terrible Twins
  9. Mates, Mysteries and Pretty Weird Weirdness
  10. Daisy, Dad and the Huge, Small Surprise
  11. Rainbows, Rowan and True, True Romance (?)
  12. Visitors, Vanishings and Va-Va-Va Voom
  13. Crushes, Cliques and the Cool, School Trip [4]
  14. Hassles, Heart-pings!, and Sad, Happy Endings
  15. Sunshine, Sunburn And Not-So-Sweet-Nothings (Summer special)
  16. Angels, Arguments and a Furry, Merry Christmas (Christmas special, prequel to main series)

Plus:

  1. A Guided Tour of Ally's World
  2. My V. Groovy Ally's World Journal

Stella Etc.

  1. Frankie, Peaches and Me
  2. Sweet-Talking TJ
  3. Meet The Real World, Rachel
  4. Truly, Madly Megan
  5. Amber and the Hot Pepper Jelly
  6. Twists, Turns and 100% Tilda
  7. Forever and Ever and Evie

Indie Kidd

  1. How to be Good(ish)
  2. Oops, I Lost My Best(est) Friends
  3. Being Grown-Up Is Cool (Not)
  4. Are We Having Fun Yet? (Hmm?)
  5. Wow, I’m a Gazillionaire! (I Wish...)
  6. My Big (Strange) Happy Family
  7. Me and the School (un)Fair
  8. I Spy a (Not So) White Lie

Specials:

  1. My (Most Excellent) Pet Project
  2. Indie Kidd's (Most Excellent) Best Friend Guide
  3. Indie Kidd's (Most Excellent) Guide to Fun for Free

Sadie Rocks!

  1. Happiness, And All That Stuff
  2. Deep Joy, Or Something Like It
  3. It's All Good (In Your Dreams)
  4. Smile! It's Meant To Be Fun

You, Me and Thing

  1. The Curse of the Jelly Babies
  2. The Dreaded Noodle-doodle
  3. The Legend of the Loch Ness Lilo
  4. The Mummy That Went Moo

Angels Next Door

  1. Angels Next Door
  2. Angels in Training
  3. Angels Like Me

St Grizzle's

  1. St Grizzle's School for Girls, Goats and Random Boys
  2. St Grizzle's School for Girls, Ghosts and Runaway Grannies
  3. St Grizzle's School for Girls, Geeks and Tag-along Zombies
  4. St Grizzle's School for Girls, Gremlins and Pesky Guests

Trilogy

Stand-alone novels

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References

  1. Carol Cadwalladr (23 July 2006). "Diary of a Mini-me". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2008.
  2. https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-be-a-human/karen-mccombie/9781788951098.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. 1 2 "Karen McCombie: when I was 15 and desperately wanted to be Holden's girlfriend from Catcher in the Rye". The Guardian. 20 January 2015. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  4. Mars Bar27 (9 May 2015). "Ally's World: Crushes, Cliques, and the Cool, School Trip by Karen McCombie - review". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 25 October 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. pinkbookworm (10 September 2012). "The Raspberry Rules By Karen McCombie - review". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  6. Felixreads (12 October 2014). "The Girl Who Wasn't There by Karen McCombie - review". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 25 October 2024.