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Kym Brunner

Born: in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Brunner was born and raised in Chicago. She attended Our Lady of Victory Elementary School and Good Counsel High School in Chicago. She attended DePaul University & Northeastern Illinois University (undergrad) and received her Master of Education degree from University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. Her books also take place in Illinois.

Biography: When Kym is not writing, you'll find her teaching reading and language arts full-time to 7th graders in Prospect Heights, Illinois. She's been writing for over ten years and an active member of the Society of Children Book Writers and Illustrators. She leads two critique groups and often attends the national conference in LA. Kym is happily married and has three college-age daughters and two cute dogs.


Awards:
  • """Flip the Bird"""
  • -- ILLINOIS READS Book Selection, Illinois Reading Council, 2018

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Young adult readers

Email: kymbrunner@comcast.net
Website: http://www.kymbrunner.com
Kym Brunner on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=kym+brunner


Selected Titles

Flip the bird /
ISBN: 0544800850 OCLC: 932050732

"A teenage falconer in training runs up against trouble when he finds himself falling for a girl who is part of a radical animal rights group"--

FLIP THE BIRD.
ISBN: 1328901041 OCLC: 1001327031

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT, [S.l.] : 2018.

Mercer Buddie wants two things in this world: a girlfriend and the chance to prove to his master falconer father that he s not a flake. With hunting season fast approaching, fourteen-year-old Mercer has only a short time to work with Flip, a red-tailed hawk he irreverently named to show his dad that falconers don t have to be so serious all the time.

One smart cookie
ISBN: 9781623421243 OCLC: 893079248

Sophie Dumbrowski has only gone out with three guys in her sixteen years a moron, a liar, and a perv. She's dying to change her Facebook status to In a Relationship, but how is she going to do that when Cosmo ranks her Guy-Q as category D: In Desperate Need of Help? Busia, her Polish grandma, offers to make a bargain with Dola, the Polish spirit of love, in exchange for Sophie's agreement to get along with her man-hungry mother, who owns a bakery. Sophie jumps at the chance, ready to meet Chicago's hottest teenage boy. Shortly after the deal is made, Sophie and her mom get in a terrible fight, causing her mom to fire her. This prompts Busia to pronounce that Sophie's love life is now cursed. But when Sophie meets two incredibly gorgeous guys that same afternoon, she decides she'll need to secretly date them both until she discovers if they are good luck or bad news. When the International Gourmet moves into their strip mall, the bakery business begins to tank ...

One smart cookie./
ISBN: 1623421233 OCLC: 895117119

  Wanted :
ISBN: 9781440570582 OCLC: 864095141

Teens Monroe and Jack are possessed by the spirits of the outlaw lovers, Bonnie and Clyde.

 

 

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