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Jennifer Allison

Born: 1966 in Saline, Michigan
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Allison lives in Chicago.

Biography: Jennifer Allison is a former journalist, Book Editor and high school English teacher. She has written the popular Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator and Iggy Loomis series.


Awards:
  • ''' ''Gilda Joyce'' Series

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Children; Young adult readers

Email: jennifer@gildajoyce.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.allison.7777
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gildajoyce
Jennifer Allison on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=jennifer+allison


Selected Titles

A hagfish called Shirley
ISBN: 9780803737815 OCLC: 876833394

When Iggy flushes a pet down the toilet, Daniel has to convince him to use his alien powers to save the day and keep everyone out of trouble--

Gilda Joyce :
ISBN: 0525476938 OCLC: 61261212

Dutton Children's Books, New York : ©2006.

Having earned a scholarship to a private girls' high school, self-proclaimed psychic investigator Gilda Joyce investigates the circumstances surrounding the drowning death of a student whose ghost supposedly haunts the campus.

Gilda Joyce :
ISBN: 0525479805 OCLC: 252918560

Dutton Children's Books, New York : ©2009.

Almost-fifteen-year-old psychic investigator Gilda Joyce interns for the summer at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., and solves a mystery involving national security.

Gilda Joyce :
ISBN: 9780340911365 OCLC: 144595222

Hodder Children's, London : 2007.

During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.

  Gilda Joyce :
ISBN: 9781449868987 OCLC: 757744010

Having earned a scholarship to a private girls' high school, self-proclaimed psychic investigator Gilda Joyce investigates the circumstances surrounding the drowning death of a student whose ghost supposedly haunts the campus.

Gilda Joyce :
ISBN: 9780142412329 OCLC: 221152290

Sleuth Puffin, New York : 2008.

When ninth-grader Gilda travels to an international piano competition in Oxford, England, as page turner for her friend Wendy Choy, she finds adventure investigating why Wendy is being haunted and who is frightening the performers, while enjoying a romance with a British boy and her first kiss.

Gilda Joyce :
ISBN: 9780142419908 OCLC: 731911672

Puffin Books, New York : 2012.

Psychic investigator Gilda Joyce is appalled that her mother plans to remarry, but while they are in St. Augustine, Florida, making wedding arrangements Gilda discovers that the city is full of ghosts and mysteries, including one involving her stepfather-to-be.

Gilda Joyce, psychic investigator /
ISBN: 0525473750 OCLC: 55228488

Sleuth/Dutton, New York : ©2005.

During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.

Gilda Joyce, psychic investigator :
ISBN: 0525422129 OCLC: 535490666

Dutton Children's Books, New York : ©2011.

Psychic investigator Gilda Joyce is appalled that her mother plans to remarry, but while they are in St. Augustine, Florida, making wedding arrangements Gilda discovers that the city is full of ghosts and mysteries, including one involving her stepfather-to-be.

Superkid in training /
ISBN: 0803737599 OCLC: 794640248

Dial Books for Young Readers, New York : ©2013.

Just as Daniel is adjusting to sharing his room with Iggy, his little brother, a strange boy with a big interest in bugs moves into their neighborhood, providing Daniel with a new friend but Iggy with some mutated DNA.

 

 

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