Norma Klein
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Norma Klein (born May 13, 1938 in New York City) was an American author. She grew up and lived in New York City for most of her life. She died after a brief illness on April 25, 1989, also in New York City.
She wrote many popular novels for children and young adults including Family Secrets a novel that is currently number eighty-one on the list of most challenged books 1990–2000. Her most popular novel was Mom, the Wolfman, and Me.
Her books include:
[edit] Young adult novels
- Angel Face
- Bizou
- Breaking Up
- Confessions of an Only Child
- Family Secrets
- Hiding
- A Honey of a Chimp
- It’s Not What You Expect
- Just Friends
- My Life as a Body
- Mom, the Wolfman, and Me
- No More Saturday Nights
- The Queen of the What Ifs
- Robbie and the Leap Year Blues
- Snapshots
- Taking Sides
- Tomboy
- What It’s All About
[edit] Picture Books
- Blue Trees, Red Sky
- Dinosaur’s Housewarming Party
- Girls Can Be Anything
- If I Had My Way
- Naomi in the Middle
- A Train for Jane
- Visiting Pamela
[edit] Adult books
- Beginners’ Love
- Coming to Life
- Domestic Arrangements
- Girls Turn Wives
- Give Me One Good Reason
- It’s Okay If you Don’t Love Me
- Love and Other Euphemisms (short stories)
- Love Is One of the Choices
- Sextet in A Minor (short stories)
- Sunshine
- Wives and Other Women