Kat Falls
Born: 1964 in Silver Springs, Maryland
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Kat Falls lives with her husband and children in Evanston, Illinois. Biography: Kat attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an undergrad and went on to receive an MFA in screenwriting from Northwestern University. She came up with the idea for her debut novel, ''Dark Life'', during a writing exercise. Knowing that her 11-year-old son loved reading about the ocean, Wild West pioneers and the X-Men, she combined his interests and created a story premise that kept her up nights plotting and world-building. Kat also teaches screenwriting at Northwestern University.
Awards:
- '''''Dark Life'''''
- -- 2011 Juvenile Literary Award by The Friends of American Writers
- -- 2013 ILLINOIS READS Book '''''Inhuman'''''
- -- 2013-2014 Kids’ Winter Indie Next List
- -- Kirkus Starred Review
- -- 2015 ILLINOIS READS Book
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kat-Falls-author/288256804889?sk=wall
Website: http://katfalls.com/
Kat Falls on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=kat+falls
Selected Titles
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Dark life / ISBN: 0545178150 OCLC: 427757135 Scholastic Press, New York : 2010. When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat. |
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Inhuman ISBN: 9780545371018 OCLC: 811599820 Beyond the Titan wall lies the Feral Zone, and the only people who break quarantine and venture there are the fetches, who are paid exorbitant sums to bring back items that were left behind when the wall went up--but Delaney McEvoy's father is there and she is being forced to find him and bring him back. |
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Rip tide ISBN: 9780545178457 OCLC: 826149726 Scholastic, New York : 2013, ©2011. Ty discovers an entire township chained to a sunken submarine, its inhabitants condemned to an icy underwater grave. It's only the first clue to a mystery that has claimed hundreds of lives and stands to claim two more -- lives very precious to Ty and his Topsider ally, Gemma. |
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Rip tide / ISBN: 0545178436 OCLC: 721432516 Scholastic Press, New York : 2011. Ty discovers an entire township chained to a sunken submarine, its inhabitants condemned to an icy underwater grave. It's only the first clue to a mystery that has claimed hundreds of lives and stands to claim two more -- - lives very precious to Ty and his Topsider ally, Gemma. |