Jean Thesman is a popular and award-winning novelist for young adults whose predominant theme is the heroine finding her place in the world by coming to understand her family. "I loved telling the story, because I really believed that families were made up of the people you wanted, not the people you were stuck with." —Emily Shepherd

Biography

"My mother taught me to read before I started school, but I had to wait to be six before I could have a library card."

"In 25 years, I wrote 40 books. Most of them came out under my own name, but a few were published under the name T.J. Bradstreet."

She lives in Washington State, and is a member of The Authors Guild and the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

Works

• 1984 New Kid In Town
• 1985 A Secret Love
• 1985 Two Letters for Jenny
• 1987 The Last April Dancers
• 1987 Running Scared
• 1988 Appointment with a Stranger
• 1988 Was It Something I Said?
• 1989 Couldn't I Start Over?
• 1990 Rachel Chance
• 1991 The Rain Catchers
• 1991 Who Said Life Is Fair?
• 1992 When The Road Ends
  When The Road Ends
  When the Road Ends is a young-adult novel by Jean Thesman.- Plot introduction:Mary Jack is in the foster home of a conscientious but clueless Episcopal priest, Father Matt, and his selfish troubled wife Jill. Also in their care is the silent Jane, a young girl who had been abused...
  
  
• 1993 Molly Donnelly
• 1994 Cattail Moon
  Cattail Moon
  - Plot:Julia Foster gets a chance to break away from her domineering mother for a while by moving from Seattle to Moon Valley to live with her father and grandmother...
  
  
• 1994 Nothing Grows Here
• 1995 A Night to Remember (contribution)
• 1995 Summerspell
• 1996 The Ornament Tree
• 1997 Be Mine (contribution)
• 1997 The Storyteller's Daughter
• 1998 The Moonstones
• 1999 The Other Ones
  The Other Ones (Jean Thesman novel)
  The Other Ones is a young-adult fantasy novel by Jean Thesman.-Plot summary:Bridget Raynes has typical teenage problems—clumsiness, lack of popularity, an unrequited crush, oblivious parents—but they are compounded by her suppressed magical powers, or perhaps her loss of sanity...
  
  
• 1999 The Tree of Bells
• 2000 Calling The Swan
  Calling the Swan
  - Plot :Skylar Deacon is struggling with many things in her life: a toddler brother, a summer school class in another part of town, riding the bus to get there, new friendships at the school, and conflicting advice from her sister. Most of all, she's struggling with a secret tragedy that has been...
  
  
• 2001 In The House Of The Queen's Beasts
  In The House Of The Queen's Beasts
  In the House of the Queen's Beasts is a young-adult novel by Jean Thesman.-Plot:Emily Shepherd, her professor stepfather, physician mother, and stepbrother Grady are moving into an older, larger house and Emily is very happy. An accident that scarred her face the year before had left her shunned...
  
  
• 2001 A Sea So Far
  A Sea So Far
  A Sea So Far is a historical young-adult novel by Jean Thesman. Its sequel is Rising Tide .-Plot:After the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906, two girls' lives become connected...
  
  
• 2002 Between
• 2003 Rising Tide
  Rising Tide (Jean Thesman novel)
  Rising Tide is a historical young-adult novel by Jean Thesman and a sequel to her novel A Sea So Far .-Plot summary:Kate Keeley has returned from Ireland older and wiser. Her goals are still to move her and her aunt out of the boardinghouse and to open a linens shop...
  
  
• 2005 Singer
  Singer (Jean Thesman novel)
  Singer is a young-adult fantasy novel by Jean Thesman, based loosely on the Irish legend of the Children of Lir, but having more in common with Thesman's earlier novel The Other Ones, about a young girl coming to terms with her magical powers....
  
  

The Whitney Cousins series

• 1990 Amelia
• 1990 Erin
• 1990 Heather
• 1992 Triple Trouble

The Birthday Girls series

• 1992 I'm Not Telling
• 1992 Mirror, Mirror
• 1992 Who Am I, Anyway?

As T.J. Bradstreet

• 1995 Kitty's Wish
• 1996 Lorna's Wish
• 1996 Wendy's Wish
• 1997 Before She Wakes

External links

• Jean Thesman — Homepage of the author