Norma Johnston

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1963
  • Latest Book:
    June 2009
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About the Author

Norma Johnston was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA, the only child of Marjorie (Pierce), a teacher and Charles Eugene Chambers Johnston, an engineer. She read voraciously--especially mysteries, to which her family was addicted. She was ducated at Ramsey public schools and Montclair State College, later studied acting at the American Theatre Wing and elsewhere, and received a teaching certificate from Montclair College. She was actress, director, designer, stylist, retailer, teacher, counselor, entrepreneur, preacher, editor, ... and in between all her other careers she was the author of more than 70 novels, mainly gothic romances for teens. Ever since 1973, she become a a full-time writer. She also wrote under the pseudonyms of Nicole St. John, Pamela Dryden, Lavinia Harris, Kate Chambers, Catherine E. Chambers, Elizabeth Bolton, and Adrian Robert.

Full Series List in Order

Allison Standis

1 - The Swallow's Song (Jan-1978)
2 - If You Love Me, Let Me Go (Aug-1978)

Bridget

1 - Of Time and of Seasons (Aug-1975)
2 - A Striving After Wind (Aug-1976)

The Carlisle Chronicles

1 - Carlisle's Hope (Apr-1986)
2 - To Jess, With Love and Memories (Jul-1986)
3 - Carlisles All (Nov-1986)

Keeping Days

1 - The Keeping Days (Sep-1973)
2 - Glory in the Flower (Mar-1973)
3 - The Sanctuary Tree (Feb-1977)
4 - A Mustard Seed of Magic (Jul-1977)
5 - A Nice Girl Like You (Mar-1980)
6 - Myself and I (Mar-1981)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • The Wishing Star

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy

    Sixteen year old Julie Forrest, shy and dazzled by her beautiful mother's glamor, longs for some magic that will make her belong, make her exactly look like everyone else. She is too old now to believe still in the miraculous powers attributed by leg...

  • The Wider Heart

    When Gillian Sheldon's father dies suddenly, leaving her and her mother to seek refuge in a cottage in a small Connecticut town they've never seen, Gillian has only two things in mind. She is going to take care of cheerful, childlike Mimsy, her belov...

  • Ready or Not

  • The Bridge Between

    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Set in 1776 in New Jersey. "Love, understanding, compassion...this ability to feel with others, deep beneath the surface, this was the bridge between. Well, not too deep beneath the surface are all of Jenny's feelings as comes the Revolution to Jerse...

  • Glory in the Flower

    Keeping Days - 2

    Fourteen-year-old Tish continues her diary recording the trials and tribulations of the six months between January and June in 1901....

  • The Keeping Days

    Keeping Days - 1

    A fourteen-year-old girl tells about her family and their collective experiences during a seven month period in 1900....

  • Strangers Dark and Gold

    Recounts the Greek myth of Jason, his search with the Argonauts for the Golden Fleece, and the final tragedy resulting from Medea's love for him....

  • Of Time and of Seasons

    Bridget - 1

    The newly begun Civil War is only one more complication in the lives of Bridget's family in which everyone seems talented--except Bridget....

  • A Striving After Wind

    Bridget - 2

    As Bridget continues her search for her own identity in her talented family, she learns to deal with an officious woman and her daughter, a near-romance with an aging actor, and her confused feelings about a male friend....



  • The Sanctuary Tree

    Keeping Days - 3

    Fifteen-year-old Tish faces the death of her grandfather, parting from her sweetheart, and the birth of a niece....

  • A Mustard Seed of Magic

    Keeping Days - 4

    Tish wants to write well and she wants to be of help to her friends, but first she has to understand herself....

  • The Swallow's Song

    Allison Standis - 1

    During the summer of 1920, sixteen-year-old Allison Standis meets the wealthy, glamorous Farraday family who bring excitement into her life and a new appreciation of her own family....

  • If You Love Me, Let Me Go

    Allison Standis - 2

    Allison and Lisa are close friends and popular in school, but Allison's senile grandmother, her father's failing business, and Lisa's parents' bitter divorce cause pressures that are too much for Lisa and for the friendship...

  • Pride of Lions

    Retells the story of the House of Atreus and the pride, deception, hatred, and revenge that involves Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and their children Iphigenia, Electra, and Orestes....

  • The Crucible Year

    In 1963 after her father dies, Elizabeth finds her world changing and expanding as she does volunteer work in Dominica and enters public rather than private high school. A school play helps her make friends but creates its own problems....

  • A Nice Girl Like You

    Keeping Days - 5

    Saranne Albright was hardly the girl to get involved with Paul Hodge. She was shy, quiet, a good student, and the daughter of Bronwyn Sterling Albright, one of the leading lights in the women's rights movement, and Sidney Albright, a prominent local ...

  • Myself and I

    Keeping Days - 6

    When "wild" Paul Hodge returns from California, Saranne once again finds herself defending him, even as she faces problems of her own....

  • The Days of the Dragon's Seed

    Retells the myths of Oedipus who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother and of Antigone who was condemned to death for burying her brother after he had attacked his own city....

  • Timewarp Summer

    After a summer devoted to producing a short science fiction film during which they become emotionally involved, Scott, Bettina, and Laura realize that it had been a season when "Time was warped out of sync" for all three of them....



  • Gabriel's Girl

    Sarah embarks on a dangerous mission in Spain when she searches for her father, a famous exposâe writer, who has mysteriously disappeared from his hotel....

  • Carlisle's Hope

    The Carlisle Chronicles - 1

    In one of the slimmest plots to launch a new series (The Carlisle Chronicles) yet this season, Jessica Carlisle is a part of an old family (and a lot of old family traditions), in whose roots she finds much comfort. Her father, who is with the foreig...

  • To Jess, With Love and Memories

    The Carlisle Chronicles - 2

    This is the second in a series about a large family in Alexandria, Virginia. When fifteen-year-old Jessamyn discovers that she is adopted, she is very upset and needs help from her family to cope with the revelation....

  • The Watcher in the Mist

  • Carlisles All

    The Carlisle Chronicles - 3

    When her father's taken hostage in the Middle East and her mother goes to Europe to keep close to the situation, Jess Carlisle, fifteen, must handle the press and take care of her brothers and sisters...

  • Shadow of a Unicorn

  • Whisper of the Cat

    Tracy Fairbrother will never forget her first glimpse of the family mansion, Bonne Esperance, rising ghostlike from the haunting swamps and quicksand of Dorr Island. But soon, inexplicable accidents and eerie premonitions convince Tracy that someone-...

  • The Potter's Wheel

    When sixteen-year-old Laura attends her wealthy, strong-willed grandmother's birthday celebrations in a village in Pennsylvania her grandmother is restoring, she becomes dramatically reacquainted with various relatives, hears of the dissolution of he...

  • Return to Morocco

    Shortly after she and her grandmother arrive in Morocco, seventeen-year-old Tori finds herself faced with sudden death and a secret from her grandmother's past. ...

  • The Delphic Choice

    Visiting relatives in Turkey, Meredith becomes involved in efforts to free her uncle, a hostage negotiator for a Quaker peace mission, who is taken hostage by an Islamic terrorist group....



  • The Time of the Cranes

    When her acting teacher dies and leaves her a sizable estate, Stacy investigates her death, uncovering a nursing home scandal and renewing her commitment to acting....

  • The Dragon's Eye

    When an anonymous graffiti smear campaign begins against unpopular Doris Haywood, sixteen-year-old Jenny investigates, discovering in the process a champion football player in jeopardy, a young life cut tragically short, and a cover-up attempt....

  • The Image Game

    In an effort to attract high school heartthrob Brock Peters, Celia changes her outer image....

  • Lotta's Progress

    Immigrating to nineteenth-century Boston from Germany, Lotta endures cruel disappointment in the face of hard times and a language barrier until she is taken under the wing of Louisa May Alcott, who introduces her to new dreams. Reprint....

  • Over Jordan

    Roxana has know and loved Joss for as long as she can remember, ever since Joss came to Grey's Landing ten years earlier, in 1826, to be Roxana's nursery maid. Even before the deaths of her mother and brother in a tragic riverboat accident, Roxana ha...

  • Feather in the Wind

    After moving to her ancestral home in northern New Jersey, fourteen-year-old Becca Standish Robinson--the gifted daughter of a diplomat and scientist and the granddaughter of a space pioneer--discovers a Native American ghost and a startling family s...

  • Broderick the Great and the Rockaway Raiders

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Norma Johnston has published 36 books.

Norma Johnston does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Broderick the Great and the Rockaway Raiders, was published in June 2009.

The first book by Norma Johnston, The Wishing Star, was published in January 1963.

Yes. Norma Johnston has 4 series.
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