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Allan Stratton
ALLAN STRATTON is the internationally acclaimed author of CHANDA'S SECRETS, winner of the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Honor Book, the Children's Africana Book Award, and ALA Booklist's Editor's Choice among others. Allan's first YA novel was the ALA BestBook LESLIE'S JOURNAL,... show more

ALLAN STRATTON is the internationally acclaimed author of CHANDA'S SECRETS, winner of the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Honor Book, the Children's Africana Book Award, and ALA Booklist's Editor's Choice among others. Allan's first YA novel was the ALA BestBook LESLIE'S JOURNAL, recently re-released in a revised, updated version. His newest novel, CHANDA'S WARS, was a Junior Library Guild selection, won the Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Canadian Book Award, 2009, and is on the CCBC Best Books List. Allan's next novel, BORDERLINE is a coming of age, mystery/thriller about a funny, gutsy, North American Muslim teenager whose father is accused of being part of an international terrorist plot. He loves snorkeling, travel, cats and dogs, exercise and ice cream. Allan is published in the USA, France, Germany, Korea, China, Japan, Vietnam, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Australia and Slovenia. To contact Allan, or to read more about his books, awards, and upcoming readings and events, please visit him online at www.allanstratton.com or follow his blog at http://allanstratton.blogspot.com
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My Never Ending List
My Never Ending List rated it 9 years ago
I was excited to grab this book at the library the other day as I have heard it was creepy and scary. After reading it, I feel that this novel will appeal to the younger YA crowd than to the older crowd based on its content. I enjoyed the story and I liked how the author told the story. As you move ...
Woman Reading
Woman Reading rated it 9 years ago
There is something so haunting and lonely about the cover of The Dogs, isn’t there? If a book cover is supposed to embody the soul of the book, providing it’s readers a first impression of the emotion that the story should invoke, than whoever designed this cover really hit the nail on the head. The...
debbiekrenzer
debbiekrenzer rated it 9 years ago
Yowza, this was one creepy book. I started reading it around 11:00 p.m. and thankfully my new pills kicked in or I would not have been able to go to sleep. Talk about a ghost story. This one definitely had it and the ghost was only seen by a 15 year old kid that had been and was on the run with his ...
brebeaumont
brebeaumont rated it 10 years ago
when you hear about a book of half-minute horrors for children, you kinda just shrug your shoulders and decide that you'll read it as a quick, easy filler in between books, right? but here's the thing: you're wrong. this book was absolutely not a buffer. it was actually creepy - and i say this as so...
Sesana
Sesana rated it 14 years ago
Exactly what it says on the tin. A collection of a whole lot of very, very short, creepy stories. Some of them are, indeed, very creepy. Neil Gaiman's, for example, and the Lemony Snicket story. Some of them are a little more silly, intentionally and unintentionally. It's about 125 pages, and the st...
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