Karen McCombie

Karen Grace McCombie (born 28 August 1963 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is an author of children and young adult novels.^[1] Currently, she lives in London with her husband Tom, and their 13-year-old daughter Milly^[2] She is the author of the series Stella Etc., Ally's World, Indie Kidd, Sadie Rocks, and You, Me and Thing.^[3] She has also written eleven stand-alone novels.

Ally's World character Rowan Love also stars in The Raspberry Rules.

Series

Ally's World

1. The Past, the Present and the Loud, Loud Girl
2. Dates, Double Dates and Big, Big Trouble
3. Butterflies, Bullies and Bad, Bad Habits
4. Friends, Freak-outs and Very Secret Secrets
5. Boys, Brothers and Jelly-Belly Dancing
6. Sisters, Super-creeps and Slushy, Gushy Love Songs
7. Parties, Predicaments and Undercover Pets
8. Tattoos, Tell-tales and Terrible, Terrible Twins
9. Mates, Mysteries and Pretty Weird Weirdness
10. Daisy, Dad and the Huge, Small Surprise
11. Rainbows, Rowan and True, True Romance (?)
12. Visitors, Vanishings and Va-Va-Va Voom
13. Crushes, Cliques and the Cool, School Trip
14. Hassles, Heart-pings!, and Sad, Happy Endings
15. Sunshine, Sunburn And Not-So-Sweet-Nothings (Summer special)
16. Angels, Arguments and a Furry, Merry Christmas (Christmas special, prequel to main series)

Plus:

1. A Guided Tour of Ally's World
2. My V. Groovy Ally's World Journal

Stella Etc.

1. Frankie, Peaches and Me
2. Sweet-Talking TJ
3. Meet The Real World, Rachel
4. Truly, Madly Megan
5. Amber and the Hot Pepper Jelly
6. Twists, Turns and 100% Tilda
7. Forever and Ever and Evie

Indie Kidd

1. How to be Good(ish)
2. Oops, I Lost My Best(est) Friends
3. Being Grown-Up Is Cool (Not)
4. Are We Having Fun Yet? (Hmm?)
5. Wow, I’m a Gazillionaire! (I Wish...)
6. My Big (Strange) Happy Family
7. Me and the School (un)Fair
8. I Spy a (Not So) White Lie

Specials:

1. My (Most Excellent) Pet Project
2. Indie Kidd's (Most Excellent) Best Friend Guide
3. Indie Kidd's (Most Excellent) Guide to Fun for Free

Sadie Rocks!

1. Happiness, And All That Stuff
2. Deep Joy, Or Something Like It
3. It's All Good (In Your Dreams)
4. Smile! It's Meant To Be Fun

You, Me and Thing

1. The Curse of the Jelly Babies
2. The Dreaded Noodle-doodle
3. The Legend of the Loch Ness Lilo
4. The Mummy That Went Moo

Angels Next Door

1. Angels Next Door
2. Angels in Training
3. Angels Like Me

Stand-Alone novels

1. An Urgent Message Of Wowness
2. Marshmallow Magic And The Wild Rose Rouge
3. The Seventeen Secrets Of The Karma Club
4. My Funny Valentine
5. Bliss...
6. Wonderland (this and the two above form a trilogy)
7. In Sarah's Shadow
8. Love is the Drug
9. My Sister, the Superbitch
10. The Raspberry Rules
11. The Girl Who Wasn't There

References

1. Carol Cadwalladr (2006-07-23). "Diary of a Mini-me". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
2. "A Book that's Out of this World". BBC. 2001-12-20. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
3. "Indie Kidd: How to Be (Good)ish". The Washington Post. 2007-04-22. Retrieved 2008-06-18.

External links

• Official Site
• Author Profile