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Lena Coakley

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Born

The United States

Website

http://lenacoakley.com/

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Genre

Young Adult, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction

Influences

Garth Nix, Kenneth Oppel, Neil Gaiman, Ursula LeGuin, Catherine Fisher ...more

Member Since

February 2011

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Lena Coakley is the Toronto Star and Globe & Mail bestselling author of Worlds of Ink and Shadow, a YA portal fantasy about the young Brontë siblings and the imaginary countries they wrote about in childhood. It made both the CBC and Quill & Quire’s Best Books of the Year lists.

Her previous novel, Witchlanders, was called “one stunning teen debut” by Kirkus Reviews, won the SCBWI Crystal Kite award and was a White Pine Award honouree.

Her first middle grade novel, Wicked Nix, will come out in October of this year from Abrams and Harper Collins Canada. She lives in Toronto.

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Average rating: 3.71 · 5,628 ratings · 1,120 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	Witchlanders 3.69 avg rating — 2,784 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Worlds of Ink and Shadow 3.60 avg rating — 1,957 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Wicked Nix by Lena Coakley (Goodreads Author), Jaime Zollars (Goodreads Author) (illustrator) 4.03 avg rating — 858 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	New Teen Voices: Free eSampler by Jeyn Roberts (Goodreads Author), Elizabeth A. Miles, Michelle Hodkin (Goodreads Author) 3.28 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	On the Night of the Comet 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2004	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
	Mrs. Goodhearth and the Gargoyle 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005	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
	iLit Modern Morsels: Selections of Canadian Poetry and Short Fiction by Paula Jane Remlinger, P.K. Brask, Shelley A. Leedahl really liked it 4.00 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
	iLit Reality Imagined: Stories of Identity and Change by Candice Fung, Dr. Janet E. McIntosh, Ken Whytock 2.67 avg rating — 3 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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	Nix el Terrible by Lena Coakley (Goodreads Author), María Loreto Ríos Ramírez (Translator) 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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A STAR for Wicked Nix!

In just over a month, WICKED NIX will arrive on the shelves. It’s a nail-biting time for an author because reviews are starting to come in. I’m so delighted that NIX has just received its first star from Booklist! It’s also going to be a Junior Library Guild selection! October 9th, here we come!

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★ “Nix, “the foulest of the fairies,” lives in the forest near a village, subsisting on fairy gifts fr

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