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  • Bibliography:
    5 Books
  • First Book:
    November 2007
  • Latest Book:
    May 2018
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Book List in Order: 5 titles



  • Eighth-grader Orithian "Rith" Haley discovers another world via the staircase in his house and begins to explore questions about God and the father he never knew, which forever changes his life--and the lives of those around him....



  • Back in grade school, Maxie and Rick were best friends. Rick would design crazy inventions, and Maxie, the artistic one, would draw them. Then something terrible happened to Rick, and he vanished from her school and her life. Years later, he shows up...



  • First day, new school, no way out. It sucks being in this new town with Grandpa. It sucks that they left the old place without finding Rosco. Travis doesn't want to do anything, especially try to get by in his classes, which never seems possible, any...



  • In a futuristic society run by an all-powerful Gov, a bender teen on the cusp of adulthood has choices to make that will change her life -- and maybe the world. Fifteen-year-old bender Kivali has had a rough time in a gender-rigid culture. Abandon...



  • For eleven-year-old Tash, Cap’n Jackie isn’t just the elderly next-door neighbor -- she’s family. When she disappears, only Tash holds the key that might bring her back. Tash didn’t want to go to camp, didn’t want to spend the summer w...




Award-Winning Books by Pat Schmatz

Bluefish
2010 PEN Literary Award -- Naylor Working Writer Fellowship: Children's/Young Adult
2012 Children's Book Committee Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Pat Schmatz has published 5 books.

Pat Schmatz does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Key to Every Thing, was published in May 2018.

The first book by Pat Schmatz, Circle the Truth, was published in November 2007.

No. Pat Schmatz does not write books in series.