Author's First Books
Famous authors and their first books.
Carrie
King, Stephen, 1947- author
2011
A sixteen-year-old misfit, denied everything by her fanatical mother and abused by her classmates, unleashes her terrifying telekinetic powers on an entire town.
Eragon
Paolini, Christopher, author
2005
Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy - until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save - or destroy - the Empire.
Frankenstein : or, The modern Prometheus, the 1818 version
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
1996
The happy prince and other stories
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
2009
Presents nine short fairy stories in which Oscar Wilde introduces children to the meaning and beauty of life, including "The Selfish Giant," "The Nightingale and the Rose," and "The Birthday of the Infanta."
Mud puddle
Munsch, Robert N., 1945- author
2019
Whenever Jule Ann goes outside, a mud puddle finds her and her mother makes her take a bath. Then one day Jule Ann thinks of an ingenious solution.
Sense and sensibility
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817, author
When Mrs. Dashwood is forced by an avaricious daughter-in-law to leave the family home in Sussex, she takes her three daughters to live in a modest cottage in Devon. For Elinor, the eldest daughter, the move means a painful separation from the man she loves, but her sister Marianne finds in Devon the romance and excitement for which she longs.
Throne of glass
Maas, Sarah J., author
2013
After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
