Suzanne Weyn

Suzanne Weyn was born in Flushing, New York, and raised on Long Island. She is the oldest of four children. As a girl she was very interested in theater and in reading. Louisa May Alcott was her favorite author. Suzanne lived pretty close to the ocean and going to Jones Beach was one of favorite activities. Even today, if she goes too long without seeing the ocean, she starts feeling restless. In times of stress it is her first destination. She has a big poster of a giant wave in her living room. Suzanne now lives in upper New York on a former horse farm in a cottage from the 1930s. There are active horse farms all around her and they help inspire her middle grade horse series, Wildwood Stables, which began in March of 2010 and is still going on with new books being added every few months. Suzanne has written lots of books for kids and young adults. The most recent are The Bar Code Tattoo and its sequel The Bar Code Rebellion. The Bar Code Tattoo was selected by the American Library Assoc. (ALA) as a 05 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and was a ’07 Nevada Library nominee for "Best Young Adult Fiction". It is currently translated into German and was nominated for the 07 Jugenliteraturpreis for Young People’s Literature. Her mystical historic romance, Reincarnation, was published in January 2008 from Scholastic hardcover. In 2009 Distant Waves received a starred review from booklist, calling it "wholly original" and praising its "sweeping action, mysticism, and romance."