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Norma Fox Mazer
Last updated on: October 20, 2009
Novels
A Figure of Speech (1973)
- National Book Award nominee, 1973
Saturday, the Twelfth of October (1975)
- Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, 1975
- California Young Reader Medal Nominee, 1977
Up in Seth's Room (1979)
- New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
- School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, 1979
- A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, 1979
- A YALSA Best of the Best Books for Young Adults 1970-1983, 1984
Taking Terri Mueller (1981)
- Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, 1981
- California Young Reader's Medal, 1985
- Sunshine State Young Readers Award Nominee, 1985-1986
- Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Nominee, 1987
- Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award Nominee, 1987
When We First Met (1982)
- Iowa Teen Choice Award, 1985
Someone to Love (1983)
- A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, 1983
Downtown (1984)
- A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, 1984
- New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year, 1984
- New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, 1984
Three Sisters (1986)
After the Rain (1987)
- A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, 1987
- A Fanfare Honor Book, 1987
- School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, 1988
- American Library Association Notable Book for Children, 1988
- Canadian Book Council Choice, 1988
- American Bookseller Children's Choice, 1988
- Newbery Honor Book Award, 1988
- Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award Nominee, 1989
- California Young Reader Medal Nominee, 1990
- Rebecca Caudhill Young Readers? Book Award Nominee, 1990
- Utah Young Adult Book Award Nominee, 1991
- Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award Nominee, 1992
Silver (1988)
- A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, 1988
- Iowa Teen Choice Award, 1990
- New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, 1990
- Rebecca Caudhill Young Readers? Book Award Nominee, 1991
- Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award Nominee, 1993
- One of YALSA's 100 Best of the Best Books for Young Adults, 1967-1992, 1994
Babyface (1990)
- American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, 1990
- International Reading Association Teacher's Choice book, 1990
- New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, 1990
- Iowa Teen Award Nominee, 1995-1996
Out of Control (1993)
- American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, 1993
- School Library Journal Starred Review, 1993
- Kirkus Reviews Pointer Review, 1993
- New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, 1993
- American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, 1993
- Detroit Public Library Young Adult Book of the Year, 1993
- A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, 1994
Missing Pieces (1994)
- American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, 1994
- New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, 1994
- Utah Young Adult Book Award Nominee, 1998
When She Was Good (1997)
- Booklist Editor's Choice, 1997
- Booklinks Lasting Contributions List, 1997
- School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, 1997
- Barnes & Noble One of Ten Best Young Adult Books, 1997
- School Library Journal Starred Review, 1997
- Publishers Weekly Starred Review, 1997
- Booklist Starred Review, 1997
- A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, 1998
Girlhearts (2001)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, 2002
- A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, 2002
- A Smithsonian Magazine Notable Book of the Year, 2002
- International Reading Association Young Adult Choice, 2003
What I Believe (2005)
- A Junior Library Guild Selection, 2005
The Missing Girl (2008)
- Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, 2008
- Starred Review, Booklist, 2008
- Starred Review, School Library Journal, 2008
- 5Q Rating, VOYA, 2008
- Starred Review, KLIATT, 2008
- TAYSHAS High School Reading List, 2009
- A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, 2009
Novels Co-authored with Harry Mazer
The Solid Gold Kid (1977)
- A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, 1977
- Children's Choice Award (IRA & CBC), 1978
- One of YALSA's 100 Best of the Best Books for Young Adults, 1967-1992, 1994
Heartbeat (1988)
- Children's Choice Award (IRA & CBC), 1989
- New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, 1989
- Literature Prize ZDF, 1989
- Iowa Teen Award Nominee, 1993-1994
Bright Days, Stupid Nights (1992)
- American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, 1992
Books for Younger Readers
I, Trissy (1971)
Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, the Dump Queen, Re-issued as Crazy Fish, 1998 (1980)
- Austrian Children's Book Honor List, 1982
- German Children's Literature Prize, 1982
- Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Nominee, 1984
Supergirl, (novelization of screenplay) (1984)
A, My Name Is Ami (1986)
- Children's Choice Award (IRA & CBC), 1986
B, My Name Is Bunny (1987)
C, My Name Is Cal (1990)
D, My Name Is Danita (1991)
E, My Name Is Emily (1991)
Good Night, Maman (1999)
- Booklist Starred Review, 1999
- Kirkus Reviews Pointer Review, 1999
- A Junior Library Guild Selection, 1999
- NCTE Notable Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, 1999
- Booklist Best Book of the Year, Holocaust Literature, 2000
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Short List, 2000
- International Reading Association Young Adult Choice, 2001
- Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master List, 2001
- Wyoming Soaring Eagle Book Award Nominee, 2001
- A Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee, 2002-2003
10 Ways to Make My Sister Disappear (2007)
Edited Poetry and Prose Collections
Waltzing on Water: Poems by Women, with Marjorie Lewis (1989)
- New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, 1989
Just a Writer's Thing: A Collection of Prose and Poetry from the National Book Foundation's 1995 Summer Writing Camp (1996)
Short Stories
Dear Bill, Remember Me? and Other Stories, (1976)
- American Library Association Notable Book
- School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, 1976
- Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, 1976
- Christopher Award, 1976
- New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year, 1976
- A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, 1976
Summer Girls, Love Boys, and Other Stories, (1982)
I, Hungry Hannah Cassandra Glen . . ., in Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults, edited by Donald R. Gallo, 1984
Tuesday of the Other June, in Short Takes, edited by Elizabeth Segel, 1986
What Happened in the Cemetery, in Visions: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults, 1987
Cutthroat, in Ultimate Sports: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults, edited by Donald R. Gallo, 1995
The House on Buffalo Street, in Night Terrors: Stories of Shadow and Substance, edited by Lois Duncan (1996)
Zelzah: A Tale from Long Ago, in Leaving Home: Stories, edited by Hazel Rochman and Darlene Z. McCampbell, 1997
Going Fishing, in Stay True: Short Stories for Strong Girls, edited by Marilyn Singer, 1998
Meeting the Mugger, in Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers, edited by Judy Blume, 1999
The Tin Butterfly, in The Color of Absence: 12 Stories of Loss and Hope, edited by James Howe, 2001
Who Hears the Fish Cry?, in One Hot Second: Stories About Desire, ed. Cathy Young, 2002
Baby from Outer Space, in Unexpected: 11 Mysterious Stories, edited by Laura E. Williams (2005)
Sez You, in The Year We Missed My Birthday (Eleven Birthday Stories), edited by Lois Metzger (2005)
How to Survive a Name, in Such a Pretty Face: Short Stories about Beauty, edited by Ann Angel, 2007.
Essays for Educators
Up in Seth's Room: Some Thoughts, in The ALAN Review, Fall 1980
A Conversation with Norma Fox Mazer, in Writing, March 1985
Growing Up with Stories, in Top of the News, Winter 1985
When You Write for Young Adults, in The Writer, February 1986
Censorship and the Writer, in Aliki, July 1986
Why I Write. . . . Why I Write What I Write, in The ALAN Review, Spring 1987, pp. 49-50
Words from Norma Fox Mazer, in Writing, March 1987
Three Teachers, in The ALAN Review, Fall 1988, p. 52
Bread, Books, and Passion, in SIGNAL Newsletter, November/ December 1988, pp. 1-3
Letters to Me, in The ALAN Review, Spring 1990, pp. 8-11
Why I Write . . ., in Indirections, September 1990
Words on a Ketchup Bottle, in The ALAN Review, Fall 1991, pp. 2-5
The Ice-Cream Syndrome (aka Promoting Good Reading Habits), in Authors’ Insights: Turning Teenagers into Readers and Writers, edited by Donald R. Gallo, 1992
Thirty Seconds, Eight Drafts, Three Years . . . And Then a Book, in The Writer, December 1993
Breathing Life into a Story, in The Writer, September 1995
Shhhh!, in The ALAN Review, Winter 1997, pp. 46-48
Writers and Their Readers, in The Writer’s Handbook, 2001 Edition, edited by Sylvia K. Burak, pp. 157-161
Books for Children
Has Anyone Seen My Emily Greene? illus. by Christine Davenier (2007)
- A Bank Street College of Education Best Children?s Book of the Year, 2008
General Awards
The ALAN Award for Contributions to Young Adult Literature (2003)
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