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Claudia Mills

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Claudia Mills is the author of Nixie Ness, Cooking Star, 7 x 9 = Trouble!, Zero Tolerance, Write This Down, and many other books for children. She was born in New York City in 1954. She received her bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, her master's degree from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University. She also received an M.L.S. degree from the University of Maryland, with a concentration in children's literature. She had a second career as a professor of philosophy at the Colorado at Boulder, until leaving that career in 2014 to write full time. She now teaches in the graduate program in children's literature at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. All of her books have been written between 5 and 7 ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 7,311 ratings · 1,539 reviews · 85 distinct works • Similar authors

	Zero Tolerance 3.78 avg rating — 1,283 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	How Oliver Olson Changed the World by Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author), Heather Maione (Illustrator) 3.73 avg rating — 742 ratings — published 2009 — 16 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
	Kelsey Green, Reading Queen 3.97 avg rating — 674 ratings — published 2012 — 12 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 Lost Language 4.09 avg rating — 506 ratings — published 2021 — 9 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
	Write This Down 3.90 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Lizzie at Last 3.91 avg rating — 319 ratings — published 2000 — 9 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
	Annika Riz, Math Whiz (Franklin School Friends, 2) by Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author), Rob Shepperson (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2014 — 7 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
	7 x 9 = Trouble! by Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author), G. Brian Karas (Illustrator) 3.85 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2002 — 17 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 Last Apple Tree 4.12 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 2024 — 9 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
	Being Teddy Roosevelt: A Boy, a President and a Plan by Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author), R.W. Alley (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.72 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2007 — 11 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

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The Power of EXTREMELY Minimal Goals

I wouldn't say this was a "resolution" for the new year. It was more just "something that needs to start happening NOW or I am going to be very, very sorry later on."

I am talking, alas, about exercise.

Luckily, I have always loved walking. Indeed, walking is one of my four "pillars of happiness," things that make any day a good day and my life as a whole a good life: writing, reading, walking, fri

Series by Claudia Mills

Franklin School Friends (5 books)
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Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author),

Rob Shepperson (Illustrator)

3.93 avg rating — 1,298 ratings

West Creek Middle School (5 books)
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Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author)

3.79 avg rating — 604 ratings

Math = Trouble! (2 books)
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Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author),

G. Brian Karas

3.83 avg rating — 404 ratings

Gus and Grandpa (10 books)
by

Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author),

Catherine Stock (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator)

3.60 avg rating — 349 ratings

After-School Superstars (4 books)
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Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author),

Grace Zong (Illustrator)

3.98 avg rating — 289 ratings

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Early risers (I am one!) know how magical it is to hear birds calling out the first notes of song each morning even before the sky is becoming light. In this beautifully written and illustrated picture book, a child in her illuminated window and a br ...more
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Kitty loves routine. Kitty loves every day to be the same. Kitty is satisfied with his comfortable life exactly the way it is. So Kitty is horrified when the boy tells him, "Today you go to kindergarten!" But off Kitty has to go. What ensues are rese ...more
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“When you're in a family, it's not clear where one person's story begins and another person's story ends" -Autumn”
― Claudia Mills, Write This Down

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“To Beverly Reingold, again and always, and this time to Abby Sider, too”
― Claudia Mills, You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman

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“It’s amazing how just one thing said by just one person in the middle of just one conversation on just one regular day can start a person wondering things she had never wondered before.”
― Claudia Mills, The Lost Language

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The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys

37 votes 45.7%

Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan

13 votes 16.0%

The Last Apple Tree by Claudia Mills

7 votes 8.6%

Mid-Air by Alicia D. Williams

6 votes 7.4%

Diet Soda Club by Chaz Hayden

5 votes 6.2%

Unstuck by Barbara Dee

4 votes 4.9%

The Bletchley Riddle (write-in)

4 votes 4.9%

Slouch by Christina Wyman

3 votes 3.7%

Bletchley Riddle sounds amazing. (write-in)

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The Last Apple Tree by Claudia Mills (write-in)

1 vote 1.2%

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