Jean Thesman (1929–2016) was a popular and award-winning novelist for young adults whose predominant theme was the heroine finding her place in the world by coming to understand her family. "I loved telling the story, because I really believed that families were made up of the people you ''wanted'', not the people you were stuck with." —Emily Shepherd
Biography
"My mother taught me to read before I started school, but I had to wait to be six before I could have a library card."
[Author's quote from her website.]
"In 25 years, I wrote 40 books. Most of them came out under my own name, but a few were published under the name T.J. Bradstreet."
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She lived in ]Washington state
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, and was a member of The Authors Guild and the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
Jean Thesman died January 21, 2016, at age 86 after a short illness.
Works
*1984 ''New Kid In Town''
*1985 ''A Secret Love''
*1985 ''Two Letters for Jenny''
*1987 ''The Last April Dancers''
*1987 ''Running Scared''
*1988 ''Appointment with a Stranger''
*1988 ''Was It Something I Said?''
*1989 ''Couldn't I Start Over?''
*1990 ''Rachel Chance''
*1991 ''The Rain Catchers''
*1991 ''Who Said Life Is Fair?''
*1992 '' When The Road Ends''
*1993 ''Molly Donnelly''
*1994 '' Cattail Moon''
*1994 ''Nothing Grows Here''
*1995 ''A Night to Remember'' (contribution)
*1995 ''Summerspell''
*1996 ''The Ornament Tree''
*1997 ''Be Mine'' (contribution)
*1997 ''The Storyteller's Daughter''
*1998 ''The Moonstones''
*1999 ''The Other Ones
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*1999 ''The Tree of Bells''
*2000 '' Calling The Swan''
*2001 '' In The House Of The Queen's Beasts''
*2001 ''A Sea So Far
''A Sea So Far'' (2001) is a historical young-adult novel by Jean Thesman. Its sequel is '' Rising Tide'' (2003).
Plot
After the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906, two girls' lives become connected. Kate Keely is the orphaned daught ...
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*2002 ''Between''
*2003 '' Rising Tide''
*2005 ''Singer
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The Whitney Cousins series
*1990 ''Amelia''
*1990 ''Erin''
*1990 ''Heather''
*1992 ''Triple Trouble''
The Birthday Girls series
*1992 ''I'm Not Telling''
*1992 ''Mirror, Mirror''
*1992 ''Who Am I, Anyway?''
The Elliott Cousins series
*1998 ''Jamie''
*1998 ''Meredith''
*1998 ''Teresa''
As T.J. Bradstreet
*1995 ''Kitty's Wish''
*1996 ''Lorna's Wish''
*1996 ''Wendy's Wish''
*1997 ''Before She Wakes''
References
External links
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T. J. Bradstreet
at LC Authorities, with 3 records
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American children's writers
Writers from Seattle
1929 births
2016 deaths
American women novelists
American women children's writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
Novelists from Washington (state)
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