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Karen Grace McCombie (born 28 August 1963 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is an
author An author is the writer of a book, article, play, mostly written work. A broader definition of the word "author" states: "''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...
of children and
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novels A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself ...
. Currently, she lives in London with her husband Tom, and their 21-year-old son Eddy She is the author of the series ''
Stella Etc Stella Etc. is a children's book series by British author Karen McCombie. It was published between 2004 and 2007, with an omnibus edition published in 2010. The series is about a girl called Stella, her family and her friends. After moving f ...
.'', '' Ally's World'', ''Indie Kidd'', ''Sadie Rocks'', and ''You, Me and Thing''. She has also written twelve stand-alone novels. ''Ally's World'' character Rowan Love also stars in ''The Raspberry Rules''.


Series


Ally's World

# ''The Past, the Present and the Loud, Loud Girl'' # ''Dates, Double Dates and Big, Big Trouble'' # ''Butterflies, Bullies and Bad, Bad Habits'' # ''Friends, Freak-outs and Very Secret Secrets'' # ''Boys, Brothers and Jelly-Belly Dancing'' # ''Sisters, Super-creeps and Slushy, Gushy Love Songs'' # ''Parties, Predicaments and Undercover Pets'' # ''Tattoos, Tell-tales and Terrible, Terrible Twins'' # ''Mates, Mysteries and Pretty Weird Weirdness'' # ''Daisy, Dad and the Huge, Small Surprise'' # ''Rainbows, Rowan and True, True Romance (?)'' # ''Visitors, Vanishings and Va-Va-Va Voom'' # ''Crushes, Cliques and the Cool, School Trip'' # ''Hassles, Heart-pings!, and Sad, Happy Endings'' # ''Sunshine, Sunburn And Not-So-Sweet-Nothings'' (Summer special) # ''Angels, Arguments and a Furry, Merry Christmas'' (Christmas special, prequel to main series) Plus: # ''A Guided Tour of Ally's World'' # ''My V. Groovy Ally's World Journal''


Stella’s World.

# ''Frankie, Peaches and Me'' # ''Sweet-Talking TJ'' # ''Meet The Real World, Rachel'' # ''Truly, Madly Megan'' # ''Amber and the Hot Pepper Jelly'' # ''Twists, Turns and 100% Tilda'' # ''Forever and Ever and Evie''


Indie Kidd

# ''How to be Good(ish)'' # ''Oops, I Lost My Best(est) Friends'' # ''Being Grown-Up Is Cool (Not)'' # ''Are We Having Fun Yet? (Hmm?)'' # ''Wow, I’m a Gazillionaire! (I Wish...)'' # ''My Big (Strange) Happy Family'' # ''Me and the School (un)Fair'' # ''I Spy a (Not So) White Lie'' Specials: # ''My (Most Excellent) Pet Project'' # ''Indie Kidd's (Most Excellent) Best Friend Guide'' # ''Indie Kidd's (Most Excellent) Guide to Fun for Free''


Sadie Rocks!

# ''Happiness, And All That Stuff'' # ''Deep Joy, Or Something Like It'' # ''It's All Good (In Your Dreams)'' # ''Smile! It's Meant To Be Fun''


You, Me and Thing

# ''The Curse of the Jelly Babies'' # ''The Dreaded Noodle-doodle'' # ''The Legend of the Loch Ness Lilo'' # ''The Mummy That Went Moo''


Angels Next Door

# ''Angels Next Door'' # ''Angels in Training'' # ''Angels Like Me''


St Grizzle's

# ''St Grizzle's School for Girls, Goats and Random Boys'' # ''St Grizzle's School for Girls, Ghosts and Runaway Grannies'' # ''St Grizzle's School for Girls, Geeks and Tag-along Zombies'' # ''St Grizzle's School for Girls, Gremlins and Pesky Guests''


Stand-Alone novels

# ''An Urgent Message Of Wowness'' # ''Marshmallow Magic And The Wild Rose Rouge'' # ''The Seventeen Secrets Of The Karma Club'' # ''The Raspberry Rules ('' which has Roman love in '')'' # ''Six Words And A Wish'' # ''My Funny Valentine'' # ''Bliss...'' # ''Wonderland'' (this and the two above form a trilogy) # ''In Sarah's Shadow'' # ''Love is the Drug'' # ''My Sister, the Superbitch'' # ''The Girl Who Wasn't There'' #''Little'' ''Bird'' ''Flies'' #''The OMG Blog''


References


External links


Official Site

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Living people Scottish writers 1963 births British writers of young adult literature Scottish women novelists Women writers of young adult literature {{UK-child-writer-stub