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Lisa Graff


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Young Adult, Children's


Lisa Graff is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of the National Book Award nominee A Tangle of Knots, as well as Lost in the Sun, Absolutely Almost, Double Dog Dare, Umbrella Summer, The Life and Crimes of Bernetta Wallflower, The Thing About Georgie and Sophie Simon Solves Them All. Originally from California, she lived for many years in New York City and now makes her home just outside of Philadelphia.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 45,004 ratings · 5,577 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors
Absolutely Almost
4.02 avg rating — 9,803 ratings — published 2014 — 18 editions
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A Tangle of Knots (A Tangle...
3.94 avg rating — 9,639 ratings — published 2013 — 20 editions
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Lost in the Sun
4.05 avg rating — 7,473 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions
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Umbrella Summer
4.06 avg rating — 6,693 ratings — published 2000 — 16 editions
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The Thing About Georgie
3.95 avg rating — 2,694 ratings — published 2007 — 19 editions
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The Great Treehouse War
3.98 avg rating — 2,535 ratings — published 2017 — 11 editions
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A Clatter of Jars (A Tangle...
3.61 avg rating — 1,321 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions
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Double Dog Dare
3.96 avg rating — 1,148 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions
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Sophie Simon Solves Them All
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3.76 avg rating — 591 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions
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Rewind
3.75 avg rating — 550 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions
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Series by Lisa Graff

A Tangle of Knots A Clatter of Jars
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“Everyone deserves a sad day once in a while,” Calista told me. “Sometimes things are too big for cheering up. Sometimes the best way to make things better is just to let yourself be sad for a little bit.”
― Lisa Graff, Absolutely Almost
tags: cheer-up, life
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“You can’t get where you’re going without being where you’ve been.”
― Lisa Graff, Absolutely Almost
tags: inspirational, life
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“It's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.”
― Lisa Graff, A Tangle of Knots
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Polls

What book should we read in May?

You may write in titles, provided the book is a 2014 Newbery contender and already published.

 
  22 votes 26.2%

 
  21 votes 25.0%

 
  18 votes 21.4%

 
  12 votes 14.3%

The Center of Everything
 
  3 votes 3.6%

A Tangle of Knots (write-in)
 
  2 votes 2.4%

Center of Everything (write-in)
 
  2 votes 2.4%

Hold Fast
 
  2 votes 2.4%

Center of everything (write-in)
 
  1 vote 1.2%

maggot moon (because I would probably not read it otherwise!) (write-in)
 
  1 vote 1.2%

84 total votes
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