Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in Anderson, Indiana, US on January 4, 1933. Her family were strongly religious with conservative, midwestern values and most of her childhood was spent moving a lot due to her father's occupation as a salesman. Though she grew up during the Depression and her family did not have a lot of money, Naylor stated that she never felt poor because her family owned good books. Her parents enjoyed reading stories to the children—her father would imitate the characters in Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer—and her mother read to them every evening, "almost until we were old enough to go out on dates, though we never would have admitted this to anyone." By the time Phyllis reached fifth grade, writing books was her favorite hobby and she would rush home from school each day to write down whatever plot had been forming in her head - at sixteen her first story was published in a local church magazine. Phyllis has written over 80 books for children and young people. One of these books, "Shiloh," was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1992, was named a Notable Children's Book by the American Library Association and was also Young Adult Choice by the International Reading Association. Naylor gets her ideas from things that happen to her or from things she has read. "Shiloh" was inspired by a little abused dog she and her husband found. The little dog haunted her so much that she had to write a story about him to get it out of her mind.
Series
Books
Emily and Jackson Hiding Out
2012
Alice in Rapture, Sort of
1989
Alice In-Between
1994
Cuckoo Feathers
2006
Simply Alice
2002
Faith, Hope, and Ivy June
2009
The Boys Return
2001
Please Don't Be True
2011
The Healing of Texas Jake
1997
Alice the Brave
1995
I Can't Take You Anywhere!
1997
The Grooming of Alice
2000
Almost Alice
2008
The Keeper
1986
Night Cry
1984
Dangerously Alice
2007
The Boys Start the War
1993
The Girls Get Even
1993
Going Where It's Dark
2016
Blizzard's Wake
2002
Who Won the War?
2006
Achingly Alice
1998
Zack and the Turkey Attack
2017
Now I'll Tell You Everything
2013
Boys in Control
2003
All But Alice
2002
Alice Alone
2001
Eating Enchiladas
2008
The Witch Herself
1978
Alice in Lace
1996
You and Me and the Space In Between
2013
I Like Him, He Likes Her
2010
Saving Shiloh
1997
Alice in the Know
2006
Shiloh Season
1996
Bernie Magruder and the Haunted Hotel
1990
Alice in April
1993
Shiloh
1991
Including Alice
2004
The Grand Escape
1993
Witch Weed
1990
Ducks Disappearing
1997
Boys Rock!
2005
Intensely Alice
2009
Outrageously Alice
1997
Send No Blessings
1990
Please DO Feed the Bears
2002
Beetles, Lightly Toasted
1989
Shiloh Trilogy Boxed Set
1991
Witch's Sister
1975
A Spy Among the Girls
2000
Faces in the Water
1981
Boys Against Girls
1993
Alice on Her Way
2005
The Year of the Gopher
1987
Lovingly Alice
2004
The Witch Returns
1992
Jade Green
A Ghost Story
2000
Sang Spell
1998
Bernie Magruder and the Disappearing Bodies
1986
How I Came to Be A Writer
1978
Alice on the Outside
1999
To Walk the Sky Path
1973
The Fear Place
1994
Crazy love
1977
The Boys Start the War, the Girls Get Even
1993
Girls Rule!
2004
A Traitor Among the Boys
1999
The Face in the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor
1993
Ice
1995
Starting with Alice
2002
Keeping a Christmas Secret
1989
One of the Third Grade Thonkers
1988
Alice on Board
2012
Alice in Charge
2010
Cricket Man
2008
The Agony of Alice
1985
Bernie Magruder and the Case of the Big Stink
1983
After
2003
Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry
2003
Sweet Strawberries
1999
Unexpected Pleasures
1986
The Witch's Eye
1990
Patches and Scratches
2007
Roxie and the Hooligans at Buzzard's Roost
2018
King of the Playground
1991
Patiently Alice
2003
Bernie Magruder and the Bus Station Blow Up
1996
Bernie Magruder and the Pirate's Treasure
1998
Incredibly Alice
2011
Polo's Mother
2005
Witch Water
1977
Alice in Blunderland
2003
It's Great to Be Eight
2000
Bernie Magruder and the Parachute Peril
2000
A String of Chances
1982
How Lazy Can You Get?
1979
The Girls Take Over
2002
Emily's Fortune
2010
The Girls' Revenge
1994
It's Not Like I Planned It This Way
2010
Footprints at the Window
1981
A Shiloh Christmas
2015
Reluctantly Alice
1825
Carlotta's Kittens
2000
Roxie and the Hooligans
2006
Shadows on the Wall
1980
Old Sadie and the Christmas Bear
1984
Walker's Crossing (Jean Karl Books
1999
