Contact Info
Lives in: Red Wing, MN
Email address: [email protected]
Website: jacquelinewest.com
Phone: 651-388-6028
Author of: Children’s Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, and Poetry
Age Group: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Adult
Books:
The Books of Elsewhere, Volume One: The Shadows, Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin, 2010 (Reviews: http://jacquelinewest.com/the-shadows.php)
The Books of Elsewhere, Volume Two: Spellbound, Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin, 2011 (Reviews: http://jacquelinewest.com/spellbound.php)
The Books of Elsewhere, Volume Three: The Second Spy, Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin, 2012 (Reviews: http://jacquelinewest.com/the-second-spy.php)
The Books of Elsewhere, Volume Four: The Strangers, Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin, 2013 (Reviews: http://jacquelinewest.com/the-strangers.php)
The Books of Elsewhere, Volume Five: Still Life, Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin, 2014 (Reviews: http://jacquelinewest.com/still-life.php)
Dreamers Often Lie, Dial Books for Young Readers/Penguin, 2016 (Reviews: http://jacquelinewest.com/dreamers-often-lie/index.html)
The Collectors, Greenwillow/HarperCollins, 2018 (Reviews: http://jacquelinewest.com/the-collectors.php)
Digging Up Danger, illus. by Hatem Aly, Rodale Kids/Penguin Random House, 2019 (Reviews: http://jacquelinewest.com/books-by-jacqueline-west.php)
A Storm of Wishes (The Collectors 2), Greenwillow/HarperCollins, 2019 (Reviews: http://jacquelinewest.com/books-by-jacqueline-west.php)
Last Things, Greenwillow/HarperCollins, 2019 (Reviews: http://jacquelinewest.com/last-things.php)
Book Awards:
Cybils Award, Fantasy/Science Fiction, 2010 (The Books of Elsewhere, Vol. 1: The Shadows)
Junior Library Guild Selection, 2010 (The Shadows)
Minnesota Book Award Finalist, 2011 (The Shadows)
Nominated for the 2013 Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice Awards (The Shadows)
Nominated for the 2011-2012 Texas Bluebonnet Award (The Shadows)
Nominated for the 2013 Illinois Bluestem Award (The Shadows)
Nominated for the Sunshine State Young Readers Award (The Shadows)
Nominated for the 2013 Grand Canyon Reader Award (The Shadows)
Nominated for the 2013 Washington Library Media Association Sasquatch Award (The Shadows)
Nominated for the 2013-2014 Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award (The Shadows)
Junior Library Guild Selection, 2011 (Spellbound)
Minnesota Book Award Finalist, 2012 (Spellbound)
Silver Falchion Award – Best Middle Grade Mystery, 2015 (Still Life)
Minnesota Book Award Finalist, 2019 (The Collectors)
Schneider Family Honor Book Award, 2019 (The Collectors)
Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot Selection, 2019 (Last Things)
Minnesota Book Award Finalist, 2020 (Last Things)
Presentations:
Writing workshops for kids and teens, book release events, etc.
*Available for Skype/Zoom presentations*
Highlights/Bio
Jacqueline West is the author of the NYT-bestselling middle grade series The Books of Elsewhere, the YA novel Dreamers Often Lie, the middle grade fantasy The Collectors, and the new YA novel Last Things.
She is also the author of two poetry collections, Cherma and Candle and Pins: Poems on Superstitions, and her poetry and short fiction appear in a variety of publications. A former teacher and sometime musician/actress, she lives in Red Wing, Minnesota, with her family.
Fees:
Please contact Jacqueline to discuss fees and creating a program that fits your needs.