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J. Anderson Coats

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Middle Grade, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

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J. Anderson Coats has received five Junior Library Guild selections, two Washington State Book Awards, and earned starred reviews from Kirkus, School Library Journal, the Horn Book Review, and Shelf Awareness. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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Junior Library Guild Selection!

The Loss of the Burying Ground is a Junior Library Guild selection! Come for the pirates, stay for the difficult work of finding common ground with someone you’ve always been told is the enemy. Coming your way in September from Candlewick Press!

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Average rating: 3.71 · 8,631 ratings · 1,945 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Tyranny of Petticoats (A Tyranny of Petticoats, #1) by Jessica Spotswood (Goodreads Author) (Editor), J. Anderson Coats (Goodreads Author), Andrea Cremer (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 4,318 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	The Wicked and the Just 3.62 avg rating — 2,123 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming 3.96 avg rating — 775 ratings — published 2017 — 6 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
	Spindle and Dagger 3.49 avg rating — 429 ratings — published 2020 — 8 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 Night Ride 3.61 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 2021 — 4 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 Green Children of Woolpit 3.61 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2019 — 5 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
	R Is for Rebel 3.67 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 2018 — 5 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 Loss of the Burying Ground 3.42 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2024 — 6 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 Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls 4.31 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2025 — 4 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
	A Season Most Unfair 4.01 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2023 — 4 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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“Charming. We're going to be murdered in our beds.”
― J. Anderson Coats, The Wicked and the Just

tags: prejudice, sarcasm, suspicion

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“Even better. We're going to be murdered in our beds by infidels.”
― J. Anderson Coats, The Wicked and the Just

tags: prejudice, sarcasm

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“God save me ere I have any babies. They are grabby, clingy creatures who steal your figure and always want a ribbon or a wooden sword. And who sometimes make you die bearing them.”
― J. Anderson Coats, The Wicked and the Just

tags: babies, motherhood

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The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls by J. Anderson Coats

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Is It Real?: The Loch Ness Monster by Candace Fleming

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Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams: The Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World’s Largest Children’s Library by Katherine Paterson

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Dear Acorn (Love, Oak): Letter Poems to Friends

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The Boy Who Lived in a Shell: Snippets for Wandering Minds by John Himmelman

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