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Gregory Maguire

Gregory Maguire was born and raised in the United States. He has also lived in Dublin and London. He is a writer of fantasies, science fiction, picture books and historical novels, and he also composes music, is an artist, and loves to travel. He is a founder member of Children's Literature New England, which organises an annual summer school on children's literature. He is a popular speaker at conferences on children's literature and in schools.

Links
Gregory's personal website

Interviews
Writing The Good Liar

Extracts

The Good Liar
Keeping secrets ...

Missing Sisters
A case of mistaken identity ...

Resources

The Good Liar
Teaching guide from O'Brien Teaching Guides Collection 3

Missing Sisters
Teaching guide from O'Brien Teaching Guides Collection 3

Seven Spiders Spinning
Teaching ideas for fourth class from O'Brien Reading Programme

Six Haunted Hairdos
Teaching ideas for fourth class from the O'Brien Reading Programme Supplement

Books (select cover or title for more information)

	Seven Spiders Spinning (pb) Seven baby Siberian snow spiders, frozen since the Ice Age, defrost on their way to a science lab. They wake up in a wood where the Tattletales girls club are planning for the school Halloween Horror Pageant ... Buy Now			Six Haunted Hairdos (pb) The two gangs from Seven Spiders Spinning get embroiled in another crazy adventure, and unwittingly bring to life the ancient ghost of the locality -- as well as some more modern ghosts who appear in stunning but slightly over-the-top hairstyles Buy Now

	Five Alien Elves (pb) It's Christmas Eve, but it's not Santa's sleigh that has crash-landed on earth - it's five alien elves! When the town's beloved mayor disappears, the Tattletales and Copycats team up to save him. Buy Now			Four Stupid Cupids (pb) Strange happenings are afoot and the Copycats and Tattletales are in the thick of things once again! When four inept cupids from Ancient Greece send one arrow after another into the wrong target, there are hilarious results... Buy Now

	The Good Liar (pb) Asked to recount his wartime experiences, the old painter Marcel looks back on a childhood touched by war but almost oblivious to its importance. Out of stock			Missing Sisters (pb) Alice Colossus is a bright but shy twelve-year-old who has spent her life in an orphanage in upstate New York. Then at summer camp the girls keep mistaking her for someone called Miami. Buy Now

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