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Mary Frances Zambreno

Born: 1954 in Oak Park, Illinois
Pen Name: Robyn Tallis, Jessie Maguire, Nicholas Adams

Connection to Illinois: *Born in Oak Park, Illinois*Currently she teaches a wide variety of courses at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois

Biography: N/A


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Children; Children; Young adult readers

Email: maryz@elmhurst.edu
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Selected Titles

A plague of sorcerers
ISBN: 0786811269 OCLC: 33131956

Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, New York : 1996.

When a magic plague begins to take its toll of the wizards in the Empire, Jermyn, a newly-apprenticed wizard, and Delia, his skunk familiar, must find a way to stop it.

A plague of sorcerers /
ISBN: 0152624309 OCLC: 23080549

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego : ©1991.

When a magic plague begins to take its toll of the wizards in the Empire, Jermyn, a newly-apprenticed wizard, and Delia, his skunk familiar, must find a way to stop it.

Fire bird /
ISBN: 0375811095 OCLC: 45654686

Random House, New York : ©2001.

Thirteen-year-old Emily, her blind engineer father, and a boy from their English village sail aboard the magic ship Basset to an island of mythical animals, where they use faith and imagination to try to restore a legendary lighthouse tower.

Invisible pleasures /
ISBN: 0961035242 OCLC: 68941835

American Fantasy, Woodstock, Il : 2005.

Mary Frances Zambreno's "first collection, Invisible Pleasures, is a gathering of the best of her adult and young adult short fiction with four new stories for fans. Queens, healers, witches, adventurers, students, young girls, and others are the focus of these tales."

Journeyman wizard :
ISBN: 0786811277 OCLC: 34077714

Hyperion, New York : 1996.

When Jermyn goes to Land's End to study wizardry under the famous spellmaker Lady Jean Allons, he finds his lessons disrupted by magical mayhem and a mysterious murder.

 

 

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