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| April Henry is an] a New York Times bestselling author of ], ] and ]. | |||
| Born in ], ], ], April grew up in the small southern Oregon town of ] where her father, Hank Henry, was a ] television newscaster, and her mother, Nora Henry, was a florist. | |||
| Author ] helped April take her first step as a writer. When April was eleven, she sent Dahl a short story about a frog who loved peanut butter. Dahl had lunch with the editor of an international children's magazine and read her the story. The editor contacted April and asked to publish her story. | |||
| In 1999, April’s first book, Circles of Confusion, was published by ]. It was short-listed for the ] and the ] 76 list, and the ] Book Club, and was a ] Editor's Choice. It has been translated into ] and ]. Other books in the series followed: Square in the Face (published in 2000); Heart-Shaped Box (published in 2001); and Buried Diamonds (published in 2003). | |||
| April’s first stand-alone thriller, Learning to Fly, was published by ] in 2002. It was a Booksense pick, got starred reviews in ] and ], was named one of Library Journal's Best of 2002, and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. It was translated into ], ], and ]. | |||
| Shock Point, April’s first young-adult thriller, was published by Putnam in 2006. It was ALA Quick Pick, a Top 10 Books for Teens nominee, a New York Library’s Books for the Teen Age book, named to the Texas Tayshas list, and a finalist for Philadelphia’s Young Readers Choice Award. Her next young-adult book, Torched, a thriller about a girl who goes undercover in an environmental extremist group, was published in 2009. Girl, Stolen, a young-adult thriller about a blind girl who is kidnapped, will be released from Henry Holt in October 2010. | |||
| In 2009, April Henry partnered with Lis Wiehl to collaborate on the Triple Threat Mystery series. The first book in the series, Face of Betrayal, was on the New York Times bestseller list for four weeks. | |||
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