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A versatile writer, Allan Wolf's picture books, poetry collections, young adult novels, and nonfiction celebrate his love of research, history, science, and poetry. He is a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, two-time winner of the North Carolina Young Adult Book Award, and recipient of New York’s Bank Street College Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry. Booklist placed Allan’s The Watch That Ends the Night, on its list of the 50 Best YA Books of All Time.

Wolf believes in the healing powers of poetry recitation and has committed to memory nearly a thousand poems.

His newest titles include: a historical novel, (Junius Leak and the Spiraling Vortex of Doom); a picture book (The Blanket Where Violet Sits); a poetry collection (The Gift of the Bro ...more

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New book: The Vanishing of Lake Peigneur

My latest book is a non-fiction graphic novel format telling of one of the most amazing disasters that no one’s ever heard of: the Lake Peigneur Texaco disaster of 1980. I wrote the text, and the illustrations are by the very talented Jose Pimienta. The Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: A Graphic Novel Based on a True Story (Candlewick Press). A Junior Library Guild Selection Publisher’s Weekly Top 10 Read more of this blog post »

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	The Watch That Ends the Night 4.15 avg rating — 4,145 ratings — published 2011 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep 4.17 avg rating — 1,117 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Killed Christopher Goodman? 3.59 avg rating — 1,126 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zane's Trace 3.74 avg rating — 507 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery by Allan Wolf (Goodreads Author), Max Grafe (Illustrator) 3.96 avg rating — 442 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: A Graphic Novel Based on a True Story by Allan Wolf (Goodreads Author), José Pimienta (illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 368 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Buddy Like a Book by Allan Wolf (Goodreads Author), Brianne Farley (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.97 avg rating — 345 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Day the Universe Exploded My Head: Poems to Take You into Space and Back Again by Allan Wolf (Goodreads Author), Anna Raff (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.83 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blanket Where Violet Sits by Allan Wolf (Goodreads Author), Lauren Tobia (Illustrator) 3.71 avg rating — 168 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

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“The points are not the point; the point is poetry.”
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“Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.
It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.”
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“Man's fatal flaw is misplaced optimism.”
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