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Tom McNeal was born in Santa Ana, California, where his father and grandfather raised oranges. He spent part of every summer at the Nebraska farm where his mother was born and raised, and after earning a BA in English at UC Berkeley and an MFA in Creative Writing at UC Irvine, he taught school in the town that was the inspiration for his novel, Goodnight, Nebraska. Tom has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and his short stories have been widely anthologized.

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Average rating: 3.8 · 18,543 ratings · 3,374 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors

	Far Far Away 3.87 avg rating — 8,929 ratings — published 2013 — 23 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
	To Be Sung Underwater 3.81 avg rating — 5,698 ratings — published 2011 — 23 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
	Crooked by Laura McNeal (Goodreads Author), Tom McNeal 3.72 avg rating — 1,530 ratings — published 1999 — 13 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
	Goodnight, Nebraska 3.71 avg rating — 978 ratings — published 1998 — 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
	Zipped by Laura McNeal (Goodreads Author), Tom McNeal 3.44 avg rating — 711 ratings — published 2003 — 13 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 Dog Who Lost His Bob by Tom McNeal, Laura McNeal (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1996 — 2 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
	Goodnight, Nebraska Reading Group Guide 3.50 avg rating — 2 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
	FAR, FAR AWAY by Tom McNeal, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
	(CROOKED ) BY McNeal, Laura (Author) Paperback Published on (05 , 2007) by Tom McNeal, Laura McNeal (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
	CROOKED By McNeal, Laura (Author) Paperback on 08-May-2007 by Tom McNeal, Laura McNeal (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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“For you, I was a chapter. For me, you were the book.”
― Tom McNeal

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“Sometimes I think the cover of a book as a door to another world...but other times I think of it as an escape hatch from this one. I guess it's the same thing.”
― Tom McNeal

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“He says that all that happens when you go far, far away is that you discover you've brought yourself along.”
― Tom McNeal, Far Far Away

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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein

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Far Far Away by Tom McNeal

13 votes 21.0%

The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata

11 votes 17.7%

Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper

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Zebra Forest by Adina Rishe Gewirtz

6 votes 9.7%

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (write-in)

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The Water Castle by Megan Blakemore (write-in)

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Mr lemoncello's Library (write-in)

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The Thing About Luck (write-in)

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The thing about luck

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Far far away

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