Megan Whalen Turner
Megan Whalen Turner is an award winning and bestselling author of six standalone novels set in the world of the Queen's Thief. Her books have been awarded the Mythopoeic Prize for Children's Literature, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Young Adult Literature, a Newbury Honor, and a Horn Book/Boston Globe Honor. She has twice been shortlisted for the Andre Norton Award. Satisfying for readers of all ages, Turner's books are filled with political machinations and divine intervention,...See more
Megan Whalen Turner is an award winning and bestselling author of six standalone novels set in the world of the Queen's Thief. Her books have been awarded the Mythopoeic Prize for Children's Literature, the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Young Adult Literature, a Newbury Honor, and a Horn Book/Boston Globe Honor. She has twice been shortlisted for the Andre Norton Award. Satisfying for readers of all ages, Turner's books are filled with political machinations and divine intervention, friendship, fortitude and deceit. It is a testament to their staying power that fans who fell in love with The Thief in 1996 have spent twenty-five years eagerly awaiting his Return. Turner lives (usually) on the shores of Lake Erie in the United States. See less
Megan Whalen Turner's Featured Books
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