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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    November 2009
  • Latest Book:
    July 2019
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Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • A heart of steel can’t be stolen -- unless the thief is Hellie Jondoe.It’s 1918. A war of nations is ending and a worldwide flu epidemic just heating up, but to thirteen-year-old Hellie, the only battle that counts is her own survival.An orphan b...



  • Like most everybody else in the middle of the Great Depression, fifteen-year-old Liberty Justice Jones is, well, stuck. But living smack-dab in the Lost Pines of Texas, where any fool can walk into the forest and chop a tree for free, with a debt-bur...



  • Every life has a cornerstone. Some are made of clay, some are made of rock, and a few are made of duty, honor and blood.It’s 1944, toward the end of the Second World War, but far away from the action. Ian McKenzie, a bright fifteen-year-old street ...



  • Just about everyone is incommunicado in the small, sleepy Oregon coastal town of Sea Park during the winter of 1941. That is, until Pearl Harbor is attacked. Then Sea Park springs to patriotic life. But is Ruby Opal Pearl (aka Jewels) Stokes the only...



  • They call her the Arab of Warsaw, a young girl who is forced to turn her back on her family, her fortune, her future, her Jewish faith, and her people. Running with a gang on the streets, she steals, lies, cheats, cons, and sometimes is forced to do ...



  • A gripping historical fiction friendship story that will grab everyone by the heartstrings and never let go. A giant, a dwarf, and three doomed circus animals . . . By her fourteenth birthday, Babe Killingsworth measures 6ʹ9ʺ and weighs 342 p...



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    In 1944, while much of the world is at war, 14-year-old Teddy wages her own war against herself, her brother, and her perfect, and perfectly despised, mother. Forced to spend the summer at the beach with a grandmother she'd never met, Teddy faces her...



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    Cordelia Lu Hankins is half Caucasian, half Chinese--and all albino. She has grown up isolated from the world, with her distant father and a giant stepmother named Babe (after Paul Bunyan's blue ox) in a remote lumber town in the Pacific Northwest. B...




Award-Winning Books by Randall Platt

Hellie Jondoe
2010 WILLA Literary Award -- Children/Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Randall Platt has published 8 books.

Randall Platt does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Professor Renoir's Collection of Oddities, Curiosities, and Delights, was published in July 2019.

The first book by Randall Platt, Hellie Jondoe, was published in November 2009.

No. Randall Platt does not write books in series.