authors search links  
   
login about access support contact home

Joyce Sweeney Joyce Sweeney

Last updated on: June 19, 2009

Joyce Sweeney captured the attention of the YA book world when her novel Center Line was chosen as the winner of the first Delacorte Press Prize for an Outstanding First Young Adult Novel in 1984. Since that auspicious beginning she has continued to publish appealing novels for teens on a variety of topics, among them friendships, family relationships, and self-discovery. Four of those novels have been named Best Books for Young Adults, four have been Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, and Booklist included Players among its Top Ten Sports Books in 2002.

Read the rest of the interview
(if you haven't subscribed, click here for more information)

 

Novels

Center Line (1984)

Right Behind the Rain (1987)

The Dream Collector (1989)

Face the Dragon (1990)

Piano Man (1992)

The Tiger Orchard (1993)

Shadow (1994)

Free Fall (1996)

The Spirit Window (1998)

Players (2000)

Waiting for June (2003)

Takedown (2004)

Headlock (2006)

Poetry

Meditation (1996)

She Is (1996)

Blood (1997)

I Will Die (2000)

Workshop (2004)

Short Stories

Where Do You Belong in the Jungle? (1974)

Raindance (1976)

Shattered Suns (1978)

Spanish Horses (1978)

Something Old, Something New (2003)

Some People Call me Maurice (2005)

Essays for Educators

Writing a First Novel (1984)

The Invisible Adolescent: Robert Cormier's Fade (2002)

Books for Adults

Impermanence (2008)

General Awards

Alumni of the Year, Wright State University (1991)