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Jeff Norton

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Jeff is the author of the award-winning MetaWars series for young adult readers and 'Memoirs of a Neurotic Zombie' and 'Alienated: Grounded At Groom Lake' for middle-grade readers.

Jeff is also a writer and Executive Producer in television. He is the showrunner and EP of 'Finding Her Edge' for Netflix (based on the book by Jennifer Iacopelli). He is also the originating EP of 'Geek Girl' (based on the books by Holly Smale).

His new book series is 'Dino Knights', a chapter book series about brave knights riding into adventure on the backs of dinosaurs!

A reluctant reader as a youth, Jeff is passionate about creating stories that will turn reluctant readers into lifelong ones.

Before writing novels, Jeff managed the Enid Blyton literary estate. ...more

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	MetaWars: Fight for the Future 3.75 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	MetaWars: The Dead Are Rising (MetaWars 2.0) 4.18 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Memoirs of a Neurotic Zombie (Memoirs of a Neurotic Zombie #1) 3.97 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	MetaWars: Battle Of The Immortal (MetaWars 3.0) 4.06 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Metawars: The Freedom Frontier (Metawars, #4) 4.43 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Alienated: Grounded At Groom Lake 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Memoirs of a Neurotic Zombie: Escape from Camp (Memoirs of a Neurotic Zombie, #2) 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Dino Knights 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — 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
	STOMP SCHOOL by Jeff Norton (Goodreads Author), Leo Antolini (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 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
	Dino Knights: Invasion by Jeff Norton (Goodreads Author), Jeff Crosby (Illustrator) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 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

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For anyone who's ever felt 'Alienated'

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I have a brand new book out this week, called "Alienated: Grounded At Groom Lake.' Alienated

It's a middle-grade, fish out of water comedy-adventure set in the most hostile place in the universe...high school.

Inspired in equal parts by science fiction and John Hughes films, it's the story of Sherman and Jessica Capote, who discover they are the only two human kids at their new school Read more of this blog post »

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Published on November 05, 2018 06:54 • Tags: aliens, harry-potter, john-hughes, mg, middle-grade, star-wars, ukmg

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MetaWars (4 books)
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Memoirs of a Neurotic Zombie (2 books)
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