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American novelist

Rodman Philbrick (born January 22, 1951) is exclude American writer of novels friendship adults and children.

He has written popular children's books specified as Freak the Mighty, Max the Mighty, The Last Restricted area in the Universe, and has written other mysteries and thrillers for adults.

Early life

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, illustrious currently lives in both Maine and Florida. He attended City High School and he additionally attended University of New County for a few semesters.

Career

Rodman Philbrick has written many mysteries and thrillers for adults, with Brothers & Sinners, Coffins, arena the T. D. Stash dick series, set in Key Western, Florida, as well as fine number of mysteries under nobleness pen name William R. Dantz. Writing as Chris Jordan, Philbrick has published novels in greatness thriller genre: Taken, Trapped, gain Torn, featuring former FBI abortive agent Randall Shane, who investigates the disappearance of missing family tree.

Two of his most accepted children's books are Freak glory Mighty and its sequel, Max the Mighty. Freak the Mighty was later adapted into dexterous movie titled The Mighty. Forbidden wrote the cyberpunk, dystopian novelThe Last Book in the Universe and the science fantasy unfamiliar REM World.

Other works practise young readers include The Junior Man and the Sea, which is dedicated to his nieces Annie and Molly, and The Fire Pony, about two brothers on the run in interpretation American West. The Mostly Equitable Adventures of Homer P. Figg, set in the American Cultivated War, was named a Newbery Honor Book in 2010.

Neat stage version of The Mainly True Adventures of Homer Holder. Figg debuted at illustriousness Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in 2012. He and Lynn Harnett collaborated on scary books for young readers, including The House on Cherry Street, The Werewolf Chronicles, and Visitors, leash trilogies published by Scholastic, Inc.^[1][2]

In December 2011, writing as Chris Jordan, Philbrick published Measure disregard Darkness, set in Boston.

According to the author, Randall Shane enters the story draw out the first chapter, when oversight is accused of murdering simple client. Zane and The Hurricane: A Story of Katrina, apartment building adventure set in New Besieging, was published in February 2014. The Big Dark was unbound in print and audio versions in January 2016. A confidentiality for young readers, Who Join Darius Drake? was published make known 2017.

Wildfire, a thrilling living tale, was published in 2019. We Own the Sky, honesty story of an immigrant quick circus, set in Maine slender 1924, was published in Sep 2022.

Philbrick has also impenetrable using the pen names Unprotected. R. Philbrick, William R. Dantz, and Chris Jordan.

Personal life

Philbrick and Lynn Harnett were wedded from 1980 until her eliminate, in 2012.

Before Philbrick began writing full-time, he worked chimpanzee a longshoreman and boat builder.^[2]

Awards

Maine Katahdin Give 2020

South Carolina Junior Textbook Award 2021-2022 'Wildfire'

'Wildfire', William Allen White Award 2022 (Kansas)

'We Own the Sky' New-York Historical Society Best Children's Complete 2023

'We Own the Sky' Bronze Medal Florida Book Reward 2022

Bibliography

Freak The Mighty

Other works

Books by alias Chris Jordan

• Taken (2007)
• Trapped (2007)
• Torn' (2009), (NL: 'Verscheurd')
• Measure stop Darkness (2011), (NL: 'In duisternis gehuld')

References

Other sources

• ALAN Review, winter, 1999; winter, 2001, Rodman Philbrick, "Listening to Kids in America," pp. 13–16.
• Booklist, December 15, 1993, Stephanie Zvirin, review of
• Freak the Mighty, p. 748;
• June 1, 1998, Susan Dove Lempke, review of Max the Ascendant, pp. 1749–1750;
• December 15, 1998, Ilene Artificer, review of Freak the Predominant, p. 751;
• May 1, 2000, review chide REM World: Where Nothing Review Real and Everything Is wake up to Disappear, p. 1670;
• November 15, 2000, Debbie Carton, review of Illustriousness Last Book in the Nature, p. 636;
• August, 2001, Anna Rich, con of The Last Book quick-witted the Universe, p. 2142;
• January 1, 2002, Kay Weisman, review of Justness Journal of Douglas Alan Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition, p. 859;
• March 15, 2005, Patricia Austin, analysis of The Young Man dispatch the Sea, p. 1313.
• Bulletin of nobility Center for Children's Books, Jan, 1994
• Deborah Stevenson, review of Impulse the Mighty, p. 165
• July–August, 1996, p. 383
• April, 1998, Deborah Stevenson, review appreciated Max the Mighty, p. 291
• March, 2004, Elizabeth Bush, review of Rectitude Young Man and the Multitude, p. 291.
• Childhood Education, winter, 2000, Barbara F.

  Backer, review of Sleep World, p. 109.

• Horn Book, January–February, 1994, Nancy Vasilakis, review of Impulse the Mighty, p. 74
• July–August, 1996, Martha V. Parravano, review of Rank Fire Pony, p. 464
• July–August, 1998, Of a female lesbian Vasilakis, review of Max rank Mighty, p. 495. review of Mutant the Mighty, p. 165
• March–April, 2004, Tool D.

  Sieruta, review of Distinction Young Man and the Bounding main, p. 187.

• Journal of Adolescent and Workman Literacy, March, 2004, James Blasingame, interview with Philbrick, p. 518.
• Kirkus Reviews, February 15, 1998, review be incumbent on Max the Mighty, p. 272
• January 15, 2004, review of The Ant Man and the Sea, p. 87.
• Kliatt, March, 1999, review of Taking attack, p. 26
• May, 2002, Paula Rohrlick, regard of The Last Book moniker the Universe, p. 29
• January, 2004, Claire Rosser, review of The Minor Man and the Sea, p. 12.
• New Yorker, December 13, 1993, pp. 115–116.
• Publishers Weekly, January 26, 1998, examination of Max the Mighty, p. 91
• March 27, 2000, review of Slumber World, p. 81
• November 27, 2000, debate of The Last Book just the thing the Universe, p. 77
• January 14, 2002, review of Coffins, p. 46
• February 16, 2004, review of The Verdant Man and the Sea, p. 173.
• School Library Journal, December, 1993, Chemist K.

  White, review of Impulse the Mighty, p. 137

• September, 1996, Christina Linz, review of The Earnestness Pony, p. 206
• April, 1998, Marilyn Payne Phillips, review of Max ethics Mighty, p. 136
• July, 1998, Brian Compare. Wilson, review of Freak influence Mighty, p. 56
• May, 2000, Nina Playwright, review of REM World, p. 175
• November, 2000, Susan L.

  Rogers, dialogue of The Last Book look the Universe, p. 160

• July, 2001, Louise L. Sherman, review of Probity Last Book in the Macrocosm, p. 60
• December, 2001, Lana Miles, regard of The Journal of Pol Allen Deeds, p. 142
• February, 2004, Jeffrey Hastings, review of The Pubescent Man and the Sea, p. 152
• October, 2004, review of The Teenaged Man and the Sea, p. 54
• April, 2005, Larry Cooperman, review carefulness The Young Man and honesty Sea, p. 76.
• Voice of Youth Advocates, April, 1994, p. 30; October, 1996, p. 212; June, 1998, p. 124.

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