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Alexandra Flinn (born October 23, 1966) is an American writer of novels for young adults. Her books have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today Bestseller lists and have been translated into over twenty foreign languages. Many of her books have made the American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults lists, as well as Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. Many of her novels are modernized versions of classic fairy tales. Personal life Flinn was born in Long Island, New York and grew up in Syosset, New York and Miami, Florida. At the age of five, she started thinking about being a writer and submitted early efforts to magazines like Highlights, which did not publish them. At twelve, she moved to Palmetto Bay, Florida, a suburb of Miami, where she still lives. She struggled to make friends at her new school, and she has said that this experience inspired much of her writing for young adults, particularly her book, Breaking Point. She graduated from Miami-Palmetto High School and was in a performing arts program called PAVAC (Performing And Visual Arts Center), which inspired some of her book, Diva. She graduated from the University of Miami with a degree in vocal performance (opera), then went to law school at Nova Southeastern University. She practiced law for 10 years before quitting her day job to devote herself full-time to writing, following the acceptance of her third book. Books Breathing Underwater (2001), chosen as a Top 10 ALA Best Books for Young Adults and won the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award Breaking Point (2002), chosen as a Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Nothing to Lose (2004), chosen as a Booklist Top 10 Youth Mystery, American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, and an American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Fade to Black (2005) Diva (2006), a sequel to Breathing Underwater A Kiss in Time (2009), a modern version of Sleeping Beauty Cloaked (2011), based upon several fairy tales, including The Frog Prince, The Shoemaker and the Elves, and The Six Swans Towering (2013), a retelling of Rapunzel Girls of July (2019)Kendra Chronicles series Beastly (2007), won the Detroit Public Library's Author Day Award and was a #1 New York Times bestseller after being adapted into a 2011 film Beastly: Lindy's Diary (2012), an original e-book and also published as part of a special edition of Beastly Bewitching (2012), a retelling of Cinderella, with mini-stories about Hansel and Gretel, The Princess and the Pea, and The Little Mermaid Mirrored (2015), a retelling of Snow White Beheld (2017), based upon several fairy tales, including Little Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltskin, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, and The Ugly DucklingReferences External links Official blog Alex Flinn at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Alex Flinn at Library of Congress, with 11 library catalog records. Discover the Alex Flinn popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Alex Flinn books.

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  • Diva synopsis, comments

    Diva

    Alex Flinn

    In Diva, the companion to Alex Flinn’s YA novel Breathing Under Water, Caitlin is dealing with a lot. She’s living through the aftermath of an abusive relationship, she has a youth...

  • Life Before synopsis, comments

    Life Before

    Michele Bacon

    Seventeen years is a long time to keep secrets, and Xander Fife has gotten very good at it.Everyone believes Xander has a normal life and a normal family. If he can just get throug...

  • Bewitching synopsis, comments

    Bewitching

    Alex Flinn

    Bewitching can be a beast. . . .Once, I put a curse on a beastly and arrogant high school boy. That one turned out all right. Others didn’t.I go to a new school nowone where no one...

  • Breaking Point synopsis, comments

    Breaking Point

    Alex Flinn

    How far would you go to fit in?Paul is new to Gate, a school whose rich students make life miserable for anyone not like them. And Paul is definitely not like them. Then, something...

  • Nothing to Lose synopsis, comments

    Nothing to Lose

    Alex Flinn

    I shouldn't have come back to Miami . . . I've been escaping cops' notice for a year now. I'm no longer Michael Daye, high school athlete with a promising future. Now I look like s...

  • Girls of July synopsis, comments

    Girls of July

    Alex Flinn

    Perfect for fans of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and To All the Boys I've Loved Before, this compelling contemporary novel is from Alex Flinn, the #1 New York Ti...

  • A Magical Alex Flinn 3-Book Collection synopsis, comments

    A Magical Alex Flinn 3-Book Collection

    Alex Flinn

    Alex Flinn, New York Times #1 bestseller, is back with more magical modernized fairy tales! These three presentday takes on classic stories appear in one collection for the first t...

  • Mirrored synopsis, comments

    Mirrored

    Alex Flinn

    In #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Flinn's modern and mysterious retelling of Snow White, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and true love doesn't necessarily mean Prin...