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One Novel, Ten Authors
By David Almond , Eoin Colfer , Gregory Maguire , Roddy Doyle , Tim Wynne-Jones , Linda Sue Park , Ruth L. Ozeki , Margo Lanagan , Deborah Ellis , Nick Hornby
Grades
6-8, 9-12
Genre
Fiction
<p>A video message from a dead person. A larcenous teenager. A man who can stick his left toe behind his head and in his ear. An epileptic girl seeking answers in a fairy tale. A boy who loses everything in World War II, and his brother who loses even more. And a family with a secret so big that it changes everything.<br /></p><br /><p>The world's best beloved authors each contribute a chapter in the life of the mysterious George "Gee" Keane, photographer, soldier, adventurer and enigma. Under different pens, a startling portrait emerges of a man, his family, and his gloriously complicated tangle of a life.<br /></p><br /><p>The full list of authors includes: </p><br /><p>Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of <em>A Star Called Henry</em>; Nick Hornby, author of <em>About a Boy</em>; Ruth Ozeki, author of <em>My Year of Meats</em>; Margo Lanagan, Prinz Honor Award-winning author of <em>Black Juice</em>; Linda Sue Park, Newbery Award-winning author of <em>A Single Shard</em>; David Almond, winner of the Whitbread Award and Carnegie Medal and author of <em>Skellig</em>; Gregory Maguire, author of <em>Wicked</em> Tim Wynne-Jones, two-time winner of Canada's Governor General's award and author of <em>One of the Kinder Planets</em>; Deborah Ellis, author of <em>The Breadwinner</em>; Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl Books.</p>

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