Jane Leslie Conly is the daughter of author Robert C. O'Brien and an award-winning author in her own right. She started her literary work by finishing the manuscript for her father's Z for Zachariah in 1974 after his death. Her first own book, Racso and the Rats of NIMH, was published in 1986, and is a sequel to her father's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Her Crazy Lady! won the Newbery Honor; Murder Afloat was named to the 2011-2012 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Master List. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her family.
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At her aunt and uncle's farm in the summer of 1958, 12-year-old Dawn and her new friend Charlotte create their own private world: Planet Kid. Away from whiny brothers and nosy neighbor boys, they pass one carefree day after another. But as dark secrets fr... SEE MORE