Aidan Chambers

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1983
  • Latest Book:
    January 2015
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Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

The Kissing Game (Mar-2011)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • Present Takers

  • Out of Time

  • Dance on My Grave

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  • Shades of Dark

    In this collection of eight original ghost stories, which features works by Helen Cresswell, John Gordon, Jan Mark, and several others, readers will encounter ghosts who dispense justice, pursue revenge, wreak havoc, and render comfort...

  • A Haunt of Ghosts

  • Now I Know

    Now I Know is all at once a compelling meditation on faith and religion -- and the difference between the two -- and an intense love story. When a body is found hanging from a crane in a scrapyard, Tom sets out to investigate this strange case. Ni...

  • Postcards from No Man's Land

    JACOB TODD IS ABOUT TO DISCOVER HIMSELF. Jacob's plan is to go to Amsterdam to honor his grandfather who died during World War II. He expects to go, set flowers on his grandfather's tombstone, and explore the city. But nothing goes as planned. Jacob...

  • Favorite Ghost Stories

    Following in the ghoulish shadow of Ghost Stories, the top-selling Story Library title, this new anthology is sure to chill and thrill with 15 of Aidan Chambers' favorite ghost stories. Offering spine-chilling tales from the highest caliber authors i...

  • This Is All

    Using a pillow book as her form, nineteen-year-old Cordelia Kenn sets out to write out her life for her unborn daughter. What emerges is a portrait of an extraordinary girl, who writes frankly of love, sex, poetry, nature, faith, and of herself in th...



  • Breaktime

    The first two novels in Printz-winner Aidan Chambers’s Dance Sequence are at last available in a fresh format that will draw teens to these classics of YA literature.

    Literature is crap. Fiction is, anyway. A pretense. Ersatz. . . . When you rea...

  • Toll Bridge

    To escape the pressures of suffocating parents and a possessive girlfriend, seventeen-year-old Piers takes a job as a keeper of a toll bridge and its cottage. There he befriends Adam, a charismatic wayfarer who shows up one day and refuses to leave. ...

  • The Kissing Game

    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

    In this brand-new collection of short stories, Aidan Chambers explores moments of truth, when a character or an event suddenly reveals an often-surprising meaning: A girl loses her humanity when she takes a summer job as a theme-park character; a boy...

  • Breaktime & Dance on My Grave

    In Breaktime, Ditto challenges Morgan to prove that literature is crap and triggers off a chain of events to alter his outlook of life forever. Ditto faces a series of charges from Morgan against literature: that all fiction is Done. Finished. Dead; ...

  • Dying to Know You

    In Dying to Know You, award-winning author Aidan Chambers has created an indelible portrait of a young man discovering his own voice in the world, and has constructed a love story that is as much about the mind as it is the heart. In this contempo...

  • Seal Secret

    William resents going on a 'boring' holiday to Wales, but while there he is let into a big secret by Gwyn, a local boy. Gwyn has found a seal pup and has it hidden in a cave. He makes William promise never to tell anyone about it, and plans to breed ...

  • Blindside

  • Dead Trouble & Other Ghost Stories

    • / Horror
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    I saw a face, bloated, much larger than any face I'd ever seen before. It hung in the air above me, and there was no sign of a body, just the swollen truncated head. The eyes were sunk deep into their sockets. Thick stringy hair fell in tangled knots...

Award-Winning Books by Aidan Chambers

Postcards from No Man's Land
1999 Carnegie Medal -- Children's
2003 Michael L. Printz Award -- Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Aidan Chambers has published 17 books.

Aidan Chambers does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Blindside, was published in January 2015.

The first book by Aidan Chambers, Present Takers, was published in January 1983.

No. Aidan Chambers does not write books in series.
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