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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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	Zero Tolerance 3.78 avg rating — 1,292 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 — 745 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 3.98 avg rating — 682 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 — 522 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
	Lizzie at Last 3.94 avg rating — 321 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
	Write This Down 3.91 avg rating — 324 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
	The Last Apple Tree 4.15 avg rating — 259 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
	Annika Riz, Math Whiz (Franklin School Friends, 2) by Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author), Rob Shepperson (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 273 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) 3.84 avg rating — 258 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
	Being Teddy Roosevelt: A Boy, a President and a Plan by Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author), R.W. Alley (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.73 avg rating — 241 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 Writing Lesson I Learned the Hard Way

Despitea series of recent discouragements in my writing career, back in March Italked myself into starting a new chapter book, tentatively titled TheAngel Tree.

ButI couldn’t get into the story. It was hard to get to know the characters. Theyfelt like mannequins manipulated by me rather than real, live kids driving theaction. My notes to myself (a representative few quoted verbatim here) wentl

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

Rob Shepperson (Illustrator)

3.93 avg rating — 1,310 ratings

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

3.80 avg rating — 608 ratings

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

G. Brian Karas

3.83 avg rating — 414 ratings

Gus and Grandpa (10 books)
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Claudia Mills (Goodreads Author),

Catherine Stock (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator)

3.64 avg rating — 361 ratings

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

Grace Zong (Illustrator)

3.98 avg rating — 291 ratings

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Ellen O'Clover is SO good at delivering a slow-burn romance between characters who also have their own back-story demons to exorcise, placed in an irresistible setting that is a joy for readers to inhabit vicariously as the story unfolds. I loved wat ...more
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Beth Anderson is unsurpassed at coming up with important but little-known incidents from history and presenting them in a way that is accessible and engaging to young readers but also utterly fascinating for adults. This book may be her best, which i ...more
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WALKING WHEEL is a quiet book for noisy times, a tender book for turbulent times, a book that makes room to honor the small moments of everyday life in beautifully observed specificity. The sequence of poems traces the first year of marriage for Mile ...more
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Claudia rated a book it was amazing The Magnificent Lies of Madeleine Béjart by Richard E. Goodkin	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
I knew next-to-nothing about the personal life of Moliere and nothing at all about his theatrical partner and lover Madeleine Bejart when I began reading this book but was instantly plunged into the fascinating world of theatre in 17th century France ...more
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This story is one that will resonate with me for a long time: two teens doing a summer internship at a Rocky Mountain hotel reputed to be haunted, researching the work of the hotel's resident "medium," one hoping to debunk her, the other secretly hop ...more
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Freeman's AWAY is a tour de force of brilliant writing that gives voice to four very different adolescents joining together to uncover the sinister conspiracy behind the evacuation presented in her equally dazzling middle-grade novel ALONE. The mix o ...more
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Claudia rated a book it was amazing The River Muse by Laura Resau (Goodreads Author)	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
Into an isolated, picturesque village in the south of France, complete with charming chateau and cottage, enticing patisserie and boulangerie, and secrets galore, come Callie Byrd and her exuberant daughter, Eva, fleeing from Callie's coldly manipula ...more
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Stan Yan's debut graphic novel offers up a fast-paced story that includes (among other things!) Chinese superstitions, mother-daughter dynamics, sister-brother dynamics, an adolescent crush, a great best friend, terror of rope-climbing in P.E., eerie ...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

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Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan

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The Last Apple Tree by Claudia Mills

7 votes 8.8%

Mid-Air by Alicia D. Williams

6 votes 7.5%

Diet Soda Club by Chaz Hayden

5 votes 6.3%

Unstuck by Barbara Dee

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The Bletchley Riddle (write-in)

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Slouch by Christina Wyman

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Bletchley Riddle sounds amazing. (write-in)

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

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