Norma Fox Mazer

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1971
  • Latest Book:
    February 2008
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Full Series List in Order

My Name Is

1 - A, My Name is Ami (Jun-1986)
2 - B, My Name is Bunny (Feb-1987)
3 - C, My Name Is Cal (Oct-1990)
4 - D, My Name Is Danita (Apr-1991)
5 - E, My Name Is Emily (Nov-1991)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • I, Trissy

  • A Figure of Speech

    Both overlooked in the middle of a big, noisy family, Jenny and her grandpa will always have each other to confide in . . . right? No one in Jenny Pennoyer’s family understands her at all -- no one, that is, except her grandfather, w...

  • Saturday, The Twelfth Of October

    After falling asleep in a park, fourteen-year old Zan awakens to find herself transported back in time to the forest world of a band of prehistoric cave dwellers. Adopted by the group, she learns their language and customs, exults in their triumphs, ...

  • Dear Bill, Remember Me? And Other Stories

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Eight extraordinary stories of heartbreak, growing up, and the importance of finding your voice  Everything changes eventually. Jessie Granatstein doesn’t think she’ll have anything to say in the journal her teacher asks her to write -- unti...

  • The Solid Gold Kid

  • Dear Bill, Remember Me?

  • Up in Seth's Room. a Love Story

  • Taking Terri Mueller

    Fourteen-year-old Terri has lived with her father since the death of her mother in a car accident when she was four. Father and daughter move often, the reason for which becomes clear when Terri finds out that her mother is not dead, and that she was...

  • Summer Girls, Love Boys and Other Short Stories

    Some loves last forever -- others, only a summer The summer Mary turns fifteen, she meets an unsuitable boy with an even more unsuitable motorcycle. Who cares if he’s from the wrong side of the tracks? He’s fun, and that’s a risk Mary decides i...



  • When We First Met

    They Never Should Have Met -- But They Did... When Jenny meets Rob Montana she's happier than she's been in a long time. Theirs is the kind of love she thought existed only in movies. It seems that Jenny and Rob can talk about and share everything...

  • Someone to Love

    Nina always thought that if just one person would love her perfectly and completely, she’d never be alone again Nina’s the first person in her family to leave home and go to college. Maybe that’s why she feels so isolated once she gets there, e...

  • Downtown

    In real-life, happily ever after can be hard to come by Pete Greenwood loves history. Any era or country will do as long as the books are lengthy and full of the past. But that may be because Pete’s own history is a work of fiction. For the last ei...

  • Mrs. Fish, Ape and Me, the Dump Queen

  • Supergirl

    Arriving on Earth from her inner space home of Argo City, Supergirl, disguised as beautiful Linda Lee, must battle the evil witch, Selena, and recapture her planet's life-sustaining source, the Omegahedron...

  • Three Sisters

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    How’s a girl supposed to know when she’s in love -- and more importantly, how does she get out of it? One remarkable older sister would be bad enough, but Karen Freed has two: Liz, a beautiful poet, and Tobi, compellingly intense and argumentativ...

  • A, My Name is Ami

    My Name Is - 1

    The more things change, the more Ami wishes they’d stay exactly the same Ami and her best friend, Mia, share almost everything -- even the letters in their names! But when Ami’s mom and dad separate and her mom moves out, even all of the traditio...

  • B, My Name is Bunny

    My Name Is - 2

    Bunny is funny, but that doesn’t mean she’s totally clueless when it comes to more serious matters With her quick wit and lighthearted personality, Bunny Larrabee can make people laugh about almost anything. She collects knock-knock jokes, riddle...

  • After the Rain

    At fifteen, Rachel is a worrier. She worries about whether her family understands her, whether her friends like her, and whether she'll get her first kiss before she turns sixteen. And she worries about whether she can handlehaving a real boyfriend ...

  • Silver

    My mother is determined that I will have a wonderful life -- better than her own. I guess she can't imagine what it is like for me, a kid from a trailer park, to transfer to the junior high school where all the rich kids go -- the kind of kids who...



  • Last Mission

  • Heartbeat

    Tod Ellerbee seems to have what every high school senior wants: good grades, good looks, plans for the future. But Tod knows better than to judge from outward appearances. He has no idea what he will do after graduation, and he can't shake the empty ...

  • C, My Name Is Cal

    My Name Is - 3

    How is it possible to feel more at home with your friends than with your own family? Sometimes Calvin Miller really hates that he and his mother, Nina, don’t have a home of their own. Instead, they live in Garo’s house -- well, more precisely, Al...

  • D, My Name Is Danita

    My Name Is - 4

    Danita knows that nobody’s perfect, but it’s never easy to admit that might include your own parents Danita’s parents love to remind their daughter that she weighed less than a loaf of bread when she was born, but now that she’s almost fourte...

  • Babyface

    When Toni’s luck runs out, real life comes calling Toni and Julie were both born right after their parents moved in next to one another, and the two girls have hardly been separated since. Julie is tall and outspoken and stands up for herself, but ...

  • E, My Name Is Emily

    My Name Is - 5

    Emily just wants everything to be perfect -- is that too much to ask? When Emily’s parents got divorced two years ago, her dad still made time to see her and the twins as much as possible. But since he moved to Chicago with Marcia, his phone calls ...

  • Out of Control

    Going along with the crowd can have shattering consequences Why does everyone always want you to make so many choices? Pizza or burgers, swimming or a movie, one friend or another, yes or no. For Rollo Wingate, who’s always been the biggest guy in ...

  • Bright Days, Stupid Nights

    When four teenagers from diverse backgrounds land summer internships at a prestigious newspaper, they each hope that the experience will change their lives. By the authors of The Solid Gold Kid. Reprint....

  • Missing Pieces

    Jessie's father has always been a missing piece of her life but if she were to find him, how would he feel about her? Jessie Wells thinks four is a good number. Things with four sides are sturdy and strong. A box, a chair, a room with four walls. But...

  • How I Saved My Life



  • Crazy Fish

    Eleven-year-old Joyce lives with her reclusive uncle, Old Dad, who runs the town garbage dump—which is why the kids at school call her the Dump Queen. Her only friend is Mrs. Fish, the new school custodian whose wild outfits and uninhibited pers...

  • Good Night, Maman

    Dearest Maman, In June 1940, twelve-year-old Karin Levi's world is torn apart as the German army occupies Paris. Karin, her older brother, Marc, and their maman must flee, seeking safety wherever they can find it. But Maman falls ill and is unable to...

  • Meeting the Mugger

    in Places I Never Meant to Be

    "What effect does [the climate of censorship] have on a writer?....It's chilling. It's easy to become discouraged, to second-guess everything you write. There seemed to be no one to stand up to the censors....so I began to speak out about my experie...

  • Girlhearts

    It all happened so suddenly... One minute, her mother is waking her in the middle of the night to dance with her in the rain. The next, Sarabeth is pulled out of class and told that her mother has died of a heart attack. All of a sudden, Sarabeth ...

  • The Color of Absence

    "In adolescence we feel our losses as if for the first time, with a greater depth of pain and drama than we are aware of having experienced ever before," says James Howe in his introduction to this stunning collection of short stories in which some o...

  • Ten Ways to Make My Sister Disappear

    EVERYTHING TEN-YEAR-OLD SPRIG wants, her older sister, Dakota, already has. Everything Sprig does, Dakota does better. And anytime Sprig complains, Dakota just grins and calls her a baby. It's enough to make a kid wish her sister would disappear. ...

  • Has Anyone Seen My Emily Greene?

    The perennial game of hide-and- seek between parent and child inspires a lilting text and charming illustrations.

    It’s time for lunch, but where, oh, where is Emily Greene? Her father searches for her everywhere, but without any luck. Look c...

  • What I Believe

    When Vicki's father is laid off from his job, everything changes. Her family moves to a city apartment, and Vicki has to forge a new path at her urban school. Worst of all, one night her depressed father simply disappears. Vicki soon finds herself li...

  • The Missing Girl

    He could be any man, any respectable, ordinary man. But he's not. This man watches the five Herbert girls--Beauty, Mim, Stevie, Fancy, and Autumn--with disturbing fascination. Unaware of his scrutiny and his increasingly agitated and forb...

  • When She Was Good

    Norma Fox Mazer's remarkable story of two sisters fighting to survive against a world without caring.In the sad, shabby trailer where Em Thurkill lived her first fourteen years, suffering her father's alcoholic rages and her mother's deathly silence,...



Award-Winning Books by Norma Fox Mazer

Silver
1991 Iowa Teen Award -- Young Adult
Taking Terri Mueller
1982 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Juvenile
When We First Met
1986 Iowa Teen Award -- Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Norma Fox Mazer has published 39 books.

Norma Fox Mazer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Missing Girl, was published in February 2008.

The first book by Norma Fox Mazer, I, Trissy, was published in October 1971.

Yes. Norma Fox Mazer has 1 series.
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