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Carol Plum-Ucci


Born
in Atlantic City, NJ, The United States
August 16, 1957

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Genre
Fiction, Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs


Carol Plum-Ucci is a young adult novelist and essayist. Plum-Ucci’s most famous work to date is The Body of Christopher Creed, for which she won a Michael L. Printz Award in 2002 and was named a finalist to the Edgar Allan Poe Award. Describing her subjects as "the most common, timeless, and most heart-felt teenagers," Plum-Ucci is widely recognized for her use of the South Jersey shore to set scenes for engaging characters embracing suspense themes. ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 13,170 ratings · 1,342 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors
The Body of Christopher Cre...
3.85 avg rating — 6,165 ratings — published 2000 — 23 editions
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What Happened to Lani Garver
4.04 avg rating — 3,636 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions
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Streams of Babel (Streams o...
3.80 avg rating — 1,016 ratings — published 2000 — 16 editions
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The She
3.60 avg rating — 749 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions
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The Night My Sister Went Mi...
3.57 avg rating — 608 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions
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Following Christopher Creed...
3.88 avg rating — 488 ratings — published 2011 — 17 editions
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Fire Will Fall (Streams of ...
3.80 avg rating — 491 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions
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Insane Possibilities
4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — 4 editions
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Homeschooling Abbey: Your B...
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Celebrate Diwali
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Series by Carol Plum-Ucci

The Body of Christopher Creed Following Christopher Creed
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“If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver
tags: behavior, hurt, life
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“Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver
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“You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, What Happened to Lani Garver
tags: garver, happened, lani, to, what
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