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Katherine Cowley

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Katherine Cowley read Pride and Prejudice for the first time when she was ten years old, which started a lifelong obsession with Jane Austen. Her debut novel, The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet, was nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. The Mary Bennet spy series continues with the novels The True Confessions of a London Spy and The Lady’s Guide to Death and Deception.

Katherine loves history, chocolate, traveling, and playing the piano, and she has taught writing classes at Western Michigan University. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan with her husband and three daughters.

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Katherine Cowley Chronicles of Narnia is one of my favorite series!

For classic works, The Dark is Rising series is excellent.

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Chronicles of Narnia is one of my favorite series!

For classic works, The Dark is Rising series is excellent.

For modern series, your grandsons may have already read the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. I would also recommend any of the books published by the imprint Rick Riordan Presents, especially the Aru Shah novels. And another excellent series starts with the book Amari and the Night Brothers.(less)
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