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Khristina Chess is the award-winning author of several young adult novels, including The Cutting Edge of Friendship, Hollow Beauty, The Delinquent Hero, Junior Missing, and Unquiet Riot. She tackles tough teen topics and writes binge-worthy books across multiple genres, including contemporary, thriller, mystery, and adventure.

Visit her online at www.khristinachess.com and on Twitter @KhristinaChess.
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Khristina Chess My first novel, Straight A's, was inspired by some of my own experience with academic pressure and depression. The later novels are entirely fictitiou…moreMy first novel, Straight A's, was inspired by some of my own experience with academic pressure and depression. The later novels are entirely fictitious. I start with a topic I want to write about, like teen pregnancy or anorexia. The story evolves from that. I find John Green, Jennifer Niven and Laurie Halse Anderson three YA authors whose books are similar to my category, who I admire.(less)
Khristina Chess Everywhere I went, to the bookstores, in the libraries, on my Kindle, and in my home shelves, all the books had disappeared. The end of the world was …moreEverywhere I went, to the bookstores, in the libraries, on my Kindle, and in my home shelves, all the books had disappeared. The end of the world was here.(less)
Average rating: 3.92 · 507 ratings · 108 reviews · 12 distinct worksSimilar authors
Hollow Beauty

3.67 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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The Cutting Edge of Friendship

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Junior Missing

3.85 avg rating — 78 ratings3 editions
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Straight A's

4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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The Delinquent Hero

4.18 avg rating — 33 ratings3 editions
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Drive to June

3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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The Future Unborn

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Unquiet Riot

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Swallow the Rainbow

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Against the Pack

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This book brought me back to high school, when comments about your appearance can make you feel awful about yourself. I was rooting for Olivia to leave that jerky guy. Sometimes the cutest boy in school is ugly on the inside. I was al" Read more of this review »
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I was very excited to pick up Ali Hazelwood’s first YA novel, “Check & Mate,” because I loved “The Love Hypothesis” so much. However, I was disappointed by this one. Where “The Love Hypothesis” has fun, LOL, wicked-smart dialog that sparkles on the p ...more
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"After Anna" is a child abduction story--but with lots of other stuff going on. The parents, Julia and Brian, are just going through a separation when the child is taken, and a great deal of the plot focuses on them rather than A
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"(free review copy) I think I am the number one fan of Newman's books We All Want Impossible Things and Sandwich, which means that Wreck had a LOT to live up to. And I really liked it! It just didn't hit me in quite the exact ways that the two previou" Read more of this review »
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“He shook his head. “Zombies are different than robots.”

“I agree. Zombies are fictional characters.”
Khristina Chess, The Future Unborn

“Demonstrate your connection with popular culture. You could use ‘hashtag brilliant’ throughout your essay to describe yourself.”
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“In all those movies, how does Lois fail to see that Clark Kent is really superman? I mean, his disguise is a pair of glasses.”
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“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
Stephen King

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”
Anne Lamott

“Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness”
Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“There is no place for the word twerking anywhere on your college application. Ever.”
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“Demonstrate your connection with popular culture. You could use ‘hashtag brilliant’ throughout your essay to describe yourself.”
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