Jean Ferris

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1989
  • Latest Book:
    April 2013
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Full Series List in Order

Marigold

1 - Once Upon a Marigold (Jun-2004)
2 - Twice Upon a Marigold (May-2008)
3 - Thrice Upon a Marigold (Apr-2013)

Multi-Author Series List

American Dreams

Into the Wind (Jun-1996)
Song of the Sea (Jun-1996)
3 - Weather the Storm (Jul-1996)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Looking for Home

    Pregnant and confused, seventeen-year-old Daphne Blake goes to Lincoln, Ohio, where she takes a job as a waitress and finds a circle of friends that support her and help her come to several weighty decisions...

  • Relative Strangers

    Berkeley is willing to give her long-estranged father another chance, but when he offers to take her on a tour of Europe, a host of unpleasant surprises awaits her on the Continent. By the author of Across the Grain. ...

  • Invincible Summer

  • Signs of Life

    Hannah, grieving over the loss of her sister, visits the prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux with her parents, where she has mysterious dreams, falls in love with a gypsy circus performer and begins to put her life back together....

  • All That Glitters

    When sixteen-year-old Brian arrives for yet another awkward summer vacation with his divorced and seemingly indifferent dad, Leo, in the Florida Keys, he discovers that they've been invited to join a scuba-diving expedition to help an eccentric under...

  • Into the Wind

    American Dreams

    Reluctantly working at her father's tavern, which is frequented by loutish sailors, early 1800s teen Rosie finds herself without a family or livelihood after a brawl ends her father's life and is taken in by young sea captain Raider Lyons. Original....

  • Song of the Sea

    American Dreams

    Holding on to the memory of troublemaker Captain Raider Lyons when she is abducted and tormented by the devious British Captain Lawrence, Rosie is rescued by Raider, who nearly loses his life in the process. Original....

  • Weather the Storm

    American Dreams - 3

    Sailing to England in the hopes of reuniting with her kin, Rosie is saddened when she learns that she is alone in the world and enters into a marriage of convenience with Raider, whom she grows to love and fears she will lose. Original....

  • Of Sound Mind

    Change with a capital C comes crashing down on a high-school senior, the only hearing member of his family. Forced since childhood into the twin roles of interpreter and, sometimes, caretaker, Theo finds himself doing a bit of wing stretching after m...



  • Bad

    Inspired by the author's work in a girls' rehabilitation center.

    Ray called it skating when we did the crazy things . . . Hot-wiring a fancy car for a joyride after midnight. Boosting stuff from stores . . .

    Sixteen-year-old Dallas l...

  • Eight Seconds

    Rodeo camp is pure heaven for John, especially since he is free from the pack at school, his mother, and the rest of the gang back home, but when he discovers that his friend at camp, Kit, is gay, John has a hard time knowing how to handle it as the ...

  • Once Upon a Marigold

    Marigold - 1

    Happily-ever-after turned upside down, inside out, and completely over the top! Christian is gaga for Princess Marigold. He's just a commoner, though, and no match for royalty. Heck, he lives in a cave with a troll! And now he's discovered another...

  • Much Ado About Grubstake

    Grubstake is a grubby down-on-its-luck mining town filled with grubby down-on-their-luck miners. So when a decidedly nongrubby city slicker shows up and offers to buy the tapped-out mines, the miners are sorely tempted. But not Arley, the brash sixte...

  • Underground

    In 1839, visitors from miles around come to Kentucky to tour Mammoth Cave. But sixteen-year-old Charlotte, the maid at Mammoth Cave Hotel, doesn't understand its appeal. As a slave, she is already trapped, and she doesn't see the point in risking bei...

  • Love Among the Walnuts

    Sandy Huntington-Ackerman's life becomes increasingly complicated when his bungling, moneygrubbing uncles try to shanghai the family fortune by poisoning a birthday cake. Luckily, those conniving uncles prove yet again that they can't do anything rig...

  • Twice Upon a Marigold

    Marigold - 2

    Since Queen Olympia's fateful fall into the river, newlyweds Christian and Marigold have been living happily ever after. And they had every intention of keeping it that way--until they find out that Olympia may not be as gone as they thought. Turns...

  • Thrice Upon a Marigold

    Marigold - 3

    Princess Poppy, the bouncing baby daughter of Queen Marigold and King Christian of Zandelphia-Beaurivage, is in terrible danger. The kingdom’s former torturer-in-chief and poisoner-in-chief have joined forces to kidnap the baby as an act of revenge...

  • Across the Grain

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    After their mother's death, seventeen-year-old Will reluctantly follows his flighty older sister to the desert, where he is determined to make a new and stable life for himself-with or without his sister.
    ...

  • Amen, Moses Gardenia

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    A high school girl with an unusual family and life style feels she will never "fit in" with her fellow students and suffers from deep depression until a popular boy helps her to see the value of her special qualities....



Award-Winning Books by Jean Ferris

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2002 California Young Reader Medal -- Young Adult


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Jean Ferris has published 19 books.

Jean Ferris does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Thrice Upon a Marigold, was published in April 2013.

The first book by Jean Ferris, Looking for Home, was published in July 1989.

Yes. Jean Ferris has 1 series.
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