Caroline Cooney knew in sixth grade that she wanted to be a writer when "the best teacher I ever had in my life" made writing her main focus. "He used to rip off covers from The New Yorker and pass them around and make us write a short story on whichever cover we got. I started writing then and never stopped!" When her children were young, Caroline started writing books for young people—with remarkable results. She began to sell stories to Seventeen magazine and soon after began writing books. Suspense novels are her favorites to read and write. "In a suspense novel, you can count on action." To keep her stories realistic, Caroline visits many schools outside of her area, learning more about teenagers all the time. She often organizes what she calls a "plotting game," in which students work together to create plots for stories. Caroline lives in Westbrook, Connecticut and when she's not writing she volunteers at a hospital, plays piano for the school musicals and daydreams!
- Scholastic.com
Series
Books
Snow
1990
No Such Person
2015
Night School
1995
What Janie Saw
2012
I'm Not Your Other Half
1985
Flash Fire
1994
Whatever Happened to Janie?
1993
An April Love Story
A Cooney Classic Romance
1981
Driver's Ed
1994
The Girl Who Invented Romance
1988
Flight #116 Is Down!
1992
All the Way
1986
The Vampire's Promise
1991
Out of Time
1996
The Personal Touch
A Cooney Classic Romance
1982
Rumors
1985
The Wrong Good Deed
2023
Fatality
2001
Evil Returns
1992
Diamonds in the Shadow
2007
New Year's Eve
1988
Toxic Beauty
1992
Camp Reunion
1988
Among Friends
1987
Wanted!
1997
The Fire
1990
The Terrorist
1997
Twins
1994
Trying Out
1985
He Loves Me Not
A Cooney Classic Romance
1982
Mummy
2000
Killer Instinct
1993
Family Reunion
1989
The Cheerleader
1991
13 Tales of Horror
1991
Last Dance
1987
Hit the Road
2006
Burning Up
1999
The Voice on the Radio
1996
The Party's Over
1989
Holly in Love
1983
For All Time
2001
Both Sides of Time
1995
The Lost Songs
2011
The Ransom of Mercy Carter
2000
The Rah Rah Girl
1987
Code Orange
2005
Tune in Anytime
1999
Rear-View Mirror
1980
Three Black Swans
2010
Nice Girls Don't
1984
Janie Face to Face
2013
Fatal Bargain
1993
Forbidden
1993
The Perfume
1993
A Friend at Midnight
2006
Unforgettable
1994
If the Witness Lied
2009
I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!
2016
Hush Little Baby
1999
I'm Going to Give You a Polar Bear Hug!
2020
Fog
1989
Camp Girl-Meets-Boy
1988
What Janie Found
2000
On the Seas to Troy
2004
Prisoner of Time
1998
What Child Is This?
A Christmas Story
1990
Summer Nights
1988
Twenty Pageants Later
1991
Goddess of Yesterday
2002
The Stranger
1993
Emergency Room
1994
Saturday Night
1986
Operation
Homefront
1992
Don't Blame the Music
1986
Before She Was Helen
2020
The Grandmother Plot
2021
Saying Yes
1987
Nancy and Nick
A Cooney Classic Romance
1982
Enter Three Witches
2007
Safe As the Grave
1979
The Face on the Milk Carton
1990
They Never Came Back
2009
Freeze Tag
1992
