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Joan Lowery Nixon: Masterful Mystery Writer

(4) YA Authors Teens Love series. Each of these biographies opens with a childhood anecdote before focusing on the subject's life and writings. Captioned photographs and sidebars (printed in hard-to-read type) add information. Tolkien covers the Middle-earth phenomenon as well as the author and his work. Nixon is disturbingly referred to in both past and present tenses. Bradbury and Nixon include interviews. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Authors Teens Love titles: Ray Bradbury, Joan Lowery Nixon, and J. R. R. Tolkien.

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