Norma Klein

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Norma Klein (May 13, 1938-April 25, 1989) was an American author. She was born, grew up and lived in New York City for most of her life. She died after a brief illness in New York City.

She wrote many popular novels for children and young adults including Family Secrets a novel that is currently number eighty-one on the ALA’s list of most challenged books 1990–2000. Her most popular novel was Mom, the Wolfman, and Me.

Her books include:


[edit] Picture Books

  • Blue Trees, Red Sky
  • Dinosaur’s Housewarming Party
  • Girls Can Be Anything
  • If I Had My Way
  • Naomi in the Middle
  • A Train for Jane
  • Visiting Pamela
  • Chasing Amy

[edit] Adult books

  • Beginners’ Love
  • Coming to Life
  • Domestic Arrangements
  • Girls Turn Wives
  • Give Me One Good Reason
  • It’s Okay If you Don’t Love Me
  • Love and Other Euphemisms (short stories)
  • Love Is One of the Choices
  • Sextet in A Minor (short stories)
  • Sunshine
  • Wives and Other Women