Melinda Metz

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Melinda Metz is an American author of the young adult book series Roswell High, which is the basis of the WB television series Roswell. Her other series is called Fingerprints which is about a psychic girl who reads thought from fingerprints. Melinda has also written books for several book series, including The New Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Ghosts of Fear Street, and Goosebumps Presents. She lives in Manhattan, New York with a pen-eating dog named Dodger. She sometimes works with Laura J. Burns.

1 Works
- 1.1 Roswell High
- 1.2 Book list
2 Fingerprints

[edit] Works

[edit] Roswell High

Roswell High is a young adults' book series written by Melinda Metz and published by Pocket Books. The 10-book series chronicles the adventures of 3 teen aliens and their human friends, who attend the fictional Ulysses F. Olsen High in Roswell, New Mexico. The Roswell High books served as inspiration for the television series Roswell (1999-2002), also known as Roswell High in some countries, which in turn spawned a number of spin-off books of its own.

Main articles: Roswell High, Roswell (TV series)

[edit] Book list

The Outsider
The Wild One
The Seeker
The Watcher
The Intruder
The Stowaway
The Vanished
The Rebel
The Dark One
The Salvation

[edit] Fingerprints

Fingerprints is a book series about high schooler Rachael "Rae" Voight who develops a psychic ability; when she touches a fingerprint, she can "hear" the person's thought. When Rae discovers someone out to kill her, she must find facts about the past to protect herself. She only has the help of her friends - Anthony, who knows about her mysterious abilities, and Yana, who doesn't, but does know something is not right.

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Gifted Touch
Haunted
Trust Me
Secrets
Betrayed
Revelations
Payback

[edit] Paranormal Girl

The television rights were sold to ABC in 2002, but unlike Roswell, she show did not make it beyond pilot. Like fellow book series Fearless, which was later developed at the WB in 2003, but never made it beyond its pilot either, had several liberties were taken with the story. The would-be show was called Paranormal Girl and was a hour long drama that focused on a 15-year-old girl (played by Sasha Barrese) with paranormal abilities who is recruited by the F.B.I. to help solve crimes. Other cast members included: Eddie Jemison, Kevin Kilner, Stacey Travis, Terry Chen, and Tyler Andrews.