Marilyn Kaye

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This article is about the children's author. For the singer Marilyn Kaye, see Clubbo Records.

Marilyn Kaye (born 1949[1]) is a children's author. She taught children's literature at St. John's University, New York.[2] Her book The Real Tooth Fairy explains how a child might see her parent put money under her pillow, rather than the tooth fairy.[3] Kaye wrote a novelization treatment of the 2008 film Penelope, based on the original screenplay by Leslie Caveny.[4]

[edit] Last on Earth

Last on Earth is a trilogy of novels by Marilyn Kaye. It depicts a group of teenagers who find out they are last humans on earth. The trilogy describes their effort to find out what has happened, and how they can fix it.

"Replica" is a series about Amy Candler, a young teenager who discovers she is one of thirteen others girls exactly like her. She was created in a lab by a group of scientists. One of the scientists, because of emotional connections, took her home while the rest were shipped around the country to different adoption agencies. Throughout the series Amy fights a group trying to find all thirteen of the clones and mate them with their male counterparts to create a master race and take over the entire world while she tries to find the other clones and tell them all she knows about the situation.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Commire, Anne, 1989, Something About the Author, Gale, p. 78, ISBN 0810322668.
  2. ^ Children's literature, New York Times.
  3. ^ Taylor, Marjorie, Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them, Oxford University Press US, p. 94, ISBN 0195146298.
  4. ^ Marilyn Kaye's "What's New" page, accessed April 7, 2008.

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