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Martha Brooks


Canada

Canadian author Martha Brooks has penned award-winning short stories and several powerful novels for young readers, as well as several plays, all of which deal with the universal themes of love and loss. Her finely drawn characters learn to deal with the trials life sends their way and grow because of such trials. Brooks's first collection of short stories, Paradise Cafe and Other Stories, was nominated for the prestigious Governor General's Award for Children's Literature in Canada, and "is a significant title in Canadian Young Adult literature for its 1988 publication signaled a rebirth of the short story collection as a legitimate vehicle for adolescents' recreational reading," according to Dave Jenkinson writing in St. James Guide to Young Adult Writers.
 


Genres: Young Adult Fiction
 
Novels
   Two Moons in August (1990)
   Bone Dance (1997)
   True Confessions of a Heartless Girl (2002)
   Mistik Lake (2007)
   Queen of Hearts (2011)
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Collections
   Paradise Cafe (1988)
   Traveling On Into the Light (1994)
   Being with Henry (1999)
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Award nominations
2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel (nominee) : True Confessions of a Heartless Girl


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