Minnesota Authors
Many notable authors have lived in Minnesota. Here
is a list of some of them and one of their novels that junior high
students would enjoy. The Ramsey Library has many of the listed books, as well as others by these Minnesotans.
Anderson, Scott: Distant Fires,1 canoe,2 guys,3 months,1700 miles,and 45 pounds of macaroni and cheese.
Bauer, Marion Dan: Killing Miss Kitty and Other Sins,teenage life is complicated.
Bancroft, Ann: No Horizon Is So Far,2 woman and a journey across Antarctica.
Broker, Ignatia: Night Flying Woman,Ojibway narrative.
Calvert, Patricia: Yesterday's Daughter,16 year old learns about life.
Coy ,John:Crackback,football and growing up,(Mr. Coy takes yoga at the Ramsey Junior High Library)
DiCamillo,Kate:The Tiger Rising,grieving,sadness, and learning to embrace life again.
DiCamillo, Kate: Because of Winn Dixie,appreciation and acceptance of others
Dines, Carol: Talk to Me,six stories about the teenage years.
Enger, Leif: Peace like a River,ordinary truth and extraordinary love.
Fairbanks, Evelyn: Days of Rondo,growing up on Rondo Avenue, St. Paul
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby,life in the "Jazz Age"-hope and disillusion.
Gag, Wanda: Millions of Cats,Newbery Honor Award
Gamer,Ron:the Chance series, set in the Boundary Waters.
Green,Kate: Black Dreams, a psychic mystery.
Guest,Judith:Ordinary People, a year in the life of a family.
Guernsey Joann Bren: Journey to Almost There, struggles of a single parent family.
Hautman, Pete: Rash, futuristic problems in 2074
Homstad,Daniel: Hero's Heart, 2 North Dakota boys fighting in World War II.
Howe,Jonathan: Heroes Don't Run,a true western, Civil War, and the Lakota Indians.
Keillor,Garrison: Lake Wobegon Days,life in a small midwest town(owns Common Good Books, an independent bookstore in St. Paul).
Kerfoot, Justin: Woman of the Boundary Waters, canoeing, guiding, mushing, and surviving.
Landvik, Lorna: The View from Mount Joy, finding your place in life.
LaRochelle, David: Absolutely,Positively Not, a regular boy learning what it takes to grow up.
Lovelace, Maud: Betsy and the Great World,(Betsy-Tacy series),adventures in Europe.
Maccabee, Paul: John Dillinger Slept Here, a tour of crime and corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936.
Maggio,Rosali: The Art of Talking to Anyone-How To Say It.
Parks, Gordon: Choice of Weapons, autobiography, 15 years in his life.
Paulsen, Gary: Hatchet, survival in the north woods.
Power, Susan: Roofwalker, Sioux spirit and his dreams.
Qualey, Marsha: One Night, a romantic adventure.
Schwandt, Steven: Siren Song, an adventure, boating in Lake Michigan.
Sullivan, Faith: The Cape Ann, small town life.
Thimmesh, Catherine: Madam President, women politicians.
Weatherford, Jack: Genghis Khan.
West, Stanley Gordon: Until They Bring the Streetcars Back, a mystery set in St. Paul.
Wrede Patricia: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, a fantasy.
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