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Tony Abbott

Born

in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States

October 26, 1952

Website

http://www.tonyabbottbooks.com/

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Genre

Children's Books

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Tony Abbott (born 1952) is an American author of children's books. His most popular work is the book series The Secrets of Droon, which includes over 40 books. He has sold over 12 million copies of his books and they have been translated into several other languages, including Italian, Spanish, Korean, French, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, and Russian. He has also written the bestseller Firegirl.

Abbott was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952. His father was a university professor and had an extensive library of books which became one of Abbott's first sources of literature. When he was eight years old, his family moved to Connecticut where he went through elementary school and high school.

Abbott attended the University of Connecticut, and after s ...more

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FBR 123: Father : Christmas: A Bibliographic Memoir . . .

OF ALL THE EARLY Decembers of my childhood, one of the things I remember most is a single, silent ritual by which my father announced the coming of Christmas. Some frosty morning not long after Thanksgiving, but never before December had started, he would pull down from a bookshelf in his study a small battered slipcase, remove a little brown book with a gold holly wreath stamped on its cover, set

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Average rating: 3.89 · 61,254 ratings · 4,939 reviews · 212 distinct works • Similar authors

	Firegirl 3.75 avg rating — 9,107 ratings — published 2006 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet (The Secrets of Droon, #1) by Tony Abbott, Tim Jessell (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 4,969 ratings — published 1999 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forbidden Stone (The Copernicus Legacy, #1) by Tony Abbott, Bill Perkins (Illustrator) 3.85 avg rating — 2,937 ratings — published 2014 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journey to the Volcano Palace (The Secrets of Droon, #2) by Tony Abbott, Tim Jessell (Illustrator) 3.92 avg rating — 2,517 ratings — published 1999 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mysterious Island (The Secrets of Droon, #3) 3.86 avg rating — 1,832 ratings — published 1999 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City in the Clouds (The Secrets of Droon, #4) by Tony Abbott, David Merrell (Illustrator), Tim Jessell (Illustrator) 3.89 avg rating — 1,617 ratings — published 1999 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Ice Battle (The Secrets of Droon, #5) 3.91 avg rating — 1,448 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sleeping Giant of Goll (The Secrets of Droon, #6) 3.95 avg rating — 1,315 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Wasp (The Secrets of Droon, #8) by Tony Abbott, Tim Jessell really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,293 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kringle 3.83 avg rating — 1,262 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Tony Abbott

The Secrets of Droon (44 books)
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Tony Abbott,

Tim Jessell

3.94 avg rating — 34,397 ratings

Firegirl (2 books)
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Tony Abbott

3.75 avg rating — 9,298 ratings

The Copernicus Legacy (4 books)
by

Tony Abbott

3.92 avg rating — 5,620 ratings

The Secrets of Droon: Special Edition (8 books)
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Tony Abbott

4.09 avg rating — 3,223 ratings

The Haunting of Derek Stone (4 books)
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Tony Abbott

4.01 avg rating — 1,949 ratings

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“The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.”
― Tony Abbott, The Forbidden Stone

tags: math, sky, space

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“Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!”
― Tony Abbott

tags: favorite-authors

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“On the outside it doesn't look like very much happened. A burned girl was in my class for a while. Once I brought her some homework. In class she said my name. Then she was gone. That's pretty much all that happened.”
― Tony Abbott, Firegirl

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December will be our holiday read. Please vote if you would like to join in. Poll will be open through November 11.

A Christmas Secret

Anne Perry

2 votes, 66.7%

The Paper Bag Christmas

Kevin Alan Milne

1 vote, 33.3%

The Christmas Cookie Club

Ann Pearlman

0 votes, 0.0%

Kringle

Tony Abbott

0 votes, 0.0%

3 total votes

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101 posts
Tony Abbott's Blog

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Tony Abbott’s books