It is probably still there if nobody has found it and donated it to the library book sale yet. I don’t remember it that well because it scared the living shit out of me and I hid it in the room farthest away from my bedroom so I’d never have to think about it again.

You can see how I would make that mistake.Īdele Geras is the author of this book my middle school librarian gave me (I helped her in the library so she would often let me pick out a book at Book Fair and she’d buy it for me), a dark retelling of Sleeping Beauty called Watching the Roses in which the protagonist has withdrawn from regular life after being raped by the gardener or something. I thought she was the whole time I was reading her book Tighter. Retrieved 14 February 2015.You know who Adele Griffin is not? She is not Adele Geras. Young Adult Library Services Association. ^ '2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults | Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)'.^ School Library Journal (2014) Retrieved on May 5, 2016.^ Cooper, Ilene (1 November 2014) ( Booklist Online.^ '2015 Best Fiction for Young Adults | Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)'.^ Bertz, Monica () The Booklist Reader.Witch Twins and the Ghost of Glenn Bly (2004).The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone (2014).The Oodlethunks series (illustrated by Mike Wu).The Blackberry Farm series (illustrated by LeUyen Pham).1997 Sons of Liberty: National Book Award Finalist, ALA Best Book.1998 The Other Shepards: SLJ Best Book, ALA Notable Book and ALA Best Book, Publishers Weekly Best Book.2001 Hannah Divided: Booklist Editor’s Choice.2002 Amandine: Publishers Weekly Best Book, ALA Best Book.2005 Where I Want to Be: National Book Award finalist, Kirkus Best Book, ALA Best Book.2013 Loud Awake & Lost Booklist Editor's Choice, YALSA 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults.

2014 The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone Booklist 100 Best YA Mysteries of the Past 10 Years, YALSA 2015 Best Fiction for Young Adults, Booklist Top Ten Arts Books for Youth, Amazon Best Books 2014: Teen & Young Adult, School Library Journal Best Book 2014, Romantic Times Finalist for Book of the Year.

She lives with her husband and their two children in Los Angeles, California. Personal life Īdele Griffin was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her novels Sons of Liberty and Where I Want to Be were both National Book Award finalists. Adele Griffin at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.Īdele Griffin (born July 29, 1970) is an American fiction author, writing numerous novels for adults, young adults, and kids.

Picture the dead by adele griffin