Mavis Jukes

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Mavis Jukes (born May 3, 1947) in Nyack, New York, is an American author of novels for children. She has also published nonfiction books for children and pre-teens about puberty. Her first book, No One is Going to Nashville, was published in 1983. She received the Newbery Honor distinction in 1985 for her book Like Jake and Me. Her books are usually health-based. Before becoming an author, Jukes was a lawyer and a teacher. Mrs. Jukes lives with her husband, the sculptor and painter Robert Hudson, and their daughters in Sonoma County, California.

Mavis's father, Thomas Hughes Jukes, a famous molecular biologist and nutritionist, pioneered the use of methotrexate as a new cancer therapy, and was one of the first to formulate the neutral theory of molecular evolution.

[edit] Selected Works

[edit] Fiction

• No One Is Going to Nashville (1983)
• Lights Around the Palm (1987)
• Getting Even (1988)
• Wild Iris Bloom (1993)
• I'll See You in My Dreams (1993)
• Losers Weepers (1997)
• Expecting the Unexpected (1999)
• Planning the Impossible (1999)
• Cinderella 2000 (2001)
• Blackberries in the Dark (2002)
• You're a Bear (2003)
• Like Jake and Me (2005)

[edit] Nonfiction

• Ladies' Business (1995)
• It's A Girl Thing (1996)
• Growing Up (1998)
• The Guy Book (2004)
• Be Healthy! It's A Girl Thing with Lillian Wai-Yin Cheung (2003)