Valerie Hobbs is the author of many award winning novels for young adults including Sonnys War, Tender, and How Far Would You Have Gotten If I Hadnt Called You Back, for which she was designated a Flying Start author by Publishers Weekly in 1996. Hobbs was the winner of the 1999 PEN/Norma Klein award for an emerging voice of literary merit among American writers of childrens fiction and the Arizona Library Association Young Adult Author of the Year in 2003. Defiance, her most recent middle-grade novel, was given the 2006 most distinguished fiction award by the Childrens Literature Council of Southern California and has been nominated for twelve state awards. "
Novels
How Far Would You Have Gotten If I Hadn't Called You Back (1995)
Get It While It's Hot--Or Not (1996)
Carolina Crow Girl (1999)
Charlie's Run (2000)
Tender (2001)
Carolina Crow Girl, Where Does She Belong? (2001)
Sonny's War (2002)
Stefan's Story (2003)
Letting Go of Bobby James, or How I Found My Self of Steam (2004)
Defiance (2004)
Call It a Gift (2005)
Sheep (2006)
Anything But Ordinary (2007)
The Last Best Days of Summer (2010)
Maggie and Oliver (2011)
Minnie McClary Speaks Her Mind (2012)
Wolf (2013)
Rusty (2021)
Get It While It's Hot--Or Not (1996)
Carolina Crow Girl (1999)
Charlie's Run (2000)
Tender (2001)
Carolina Crow Girl, Where Does She Belong? (2001)
Sonny's War (2002)
Stefan's Story (2003)
Letting Go of Bobby James, or How I Found My Self of Steam (2004)
Defiance (2004)
Call It a Gift (2005)
Sheep (2006)
Anything But Ordinary (2007)
The Last Best Days of Summer (2010)
Maggie and Oliver (2011)
Minnie McClary Speaks Her Mind (2012)
Wolf (2013)
Rusty (2021)
Novellas and Short Stories
Books containing stories by Valerie Hobbs
Valerie Hobbs recommends
Purple Daze (2011)
Sherry Shahan
"I stayed up half the night reading Purple Daze and didn't want it to end. Ziggy, Mickey, Cheryl, and Phil have found a permanent home in my heart."
