Kimberly Brubaker Bradley is a highly accomplished American author, best known for her work in children's books and young adult fiction. She has written numerous novels that have captivated the hearts of young readers and have gained critical acclaim. One of her most notable works, "The War That Saved My Life," became a number one bestseller on the New York Times Bestseller List.
Bradley's writing style is unique and distinctive, characterized by her vivid and rich storytelling. She has a knack for creating visuals that transport readers to different places and times, making them feel as if they are truly part of the narrative. Her characters are relatable and realistic, reflecting her deep understanding of human behavior and interactions. Bradley's works often explore complex themes and emotions, presenting them in a way that is accessible and engaging to young readers.
In addition to her writing, Bradley is also a dedicated advocate for literacy and the power of storytelling. She believes that anyone can be a writer, as long as they have the courage to tell their story. Bradley's own journey as a writer serves as an inspiration to many, as she continues to create books that resonate with readers of all ages.
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley is a wife and mother of two grown children. She and her husband share their home in Bristol, Tennessee, with a variety of animals, including a dog, several ponies, a highly opinionated mare, and a surplus of cats. Bradley's latest book, "Fighting Words," was published on August 11, 2020, and has been described as the book of her heart, showcasing her best work to date.
War
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The War That Saved My Life
2015
2
The War I Finally Won
2017
3
The Night War
2024
Standalone Novels
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Ruthie's Gift
1998
2
One-of-a-Kind Mallie
1999
3
Weaver's Daughter
2000
4
Halfway to the Sky
2002
5
For Freedom
2003
6
The President's Daughter
2004
7
The Lacemaker and the Princess
2007
8
Leap of Faith
2007
9
Jefferson's Sons
2011
10
Fighting Words
2020
11
One Night in Dallas
2022
Picture Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Favorite Things
2003
2
Ballerino Nate
2006
3
The Perfect Pony
2007
Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1 Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Big Tracks, Little Tracks
1958
2
How to Be a Nature Detective (By: Millicent E. Selsam)
1958
3
A Tree Is a Plant
1960
4
Big Tracks, Little Tracks (By: Millicent E. Selsam)
1958
5
How a Seed Grows
1960
6
A Tree Is a Plant (By: Clyde Robert Bulla)
1960
7
What Makes a Shadow?
1962
8
How a Seed Grows (By: Helene J. Jordan)
1960
9
How Many Teeth?
1962
10
What Makes a Shadow? (By: Clyde Robert Bulla)
1962
11
The Big Dipper
1962
12
How Many Teeth? (By: Paul Galdone, Paul Showers)
1962
13
My Hands
1962
14
The Big Dipper (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
1962
15
Starfish
1962
16
My Hands (By: Aliki)
1962
17
My Five Senses
1962
18
Starfish (By: Edith Thacher Hurd)
1962
19
Air Is All Around You
1962
20
My Five Senses (By: Aliki)
1962
21
Animals in Winter
1963
22
Air Is All Around You (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
1962
23
Ducks Don't Get Wet
1965
24
Fireflies in the Night (By: Judy Hawes)
1963
25
Sleep Is for Everyone
1974
26
Animals in Winter (By: Henrietta Bancroft, Richard G. Van Gelder)
1963
27
Is There Life in Outer Space?
1984
28
Ducks Don't Get Wet (By: Helen K. Davie, Augusta R. Goldin)
1965
29
Earthquakes
1990
30
Sleep Is for Everyone (By: Paul Showers)
1974
31
My Feet
1990
32
Is There Life in Outer Space? (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
1984
33
I'm Growing!
1992
34
Shooting Stars (By: Holly Keller)
1989
35
From Tadpole to Frog
1994
36
Earthquakes (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
1990
37
What Lives in a Shell?
1994
38
My Feet (By: Aliki)
1990
39
Baby Whales Drink Milk
1994
40
I'm Growing! (By: Aliki)
1992
41
A Nest Full of Eggs
1995
42
From Tadpole to Frog (By: Wendy Pfeffer)
1994
43
What's Alive?
1995
44
What Lives in a Shell? (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)
1994
45
On the Move
1996
46
Baby Whales Drink Milk (By: Barbara Juster Esbensen)
1994
47
What's It Like to Be a Fish?
1996
48
A Nest Full of Eggs (By: Priscilla Belz Jenkins)
1995
49
From Caterpillar to Butterfly
1996
50
What's Alive? (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)
1995
51
What Color Is Camouflage?
1996
52
On the Move (By: Lizzy Rockwell, Deborah Heiligman)
1996
53
A Safe Home for Manatees
1997
54
What's It Like to Be a Fish? (By: Wendy Pfeffer)
1996
55
Where Are the Night Animals?
1998
56
From Caterpillar to Butterfly (By: Deborah Heiligman)
1996
57
Our Puppies Are Growing
1998
58
What Color Is Camouflage? (By: Carolyn B. Otto)
1996
59
Sounds All Around
1998
60
A Safe Home for Manatees (By: Priscilla Belz Jenkins)
1997
61
Snow Is Falling
2000
62
Where Are the Night Animals? (By: Mary Ann Fraser)
1998
63
Our Puppies Are Growing (By: Carolyn B. Otto)
1998
64
Bugs Are Insects
2001
65
Sounds All Around (By: Wendy Pfeffer)
1998
66
How Animal Babies Stay Safe
2001
67
Snow Is Falling (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
2000
68
Dinosaurs Big and Small
2002
69
Pop!
2001
70
Bugs Are Insects (By: Anne Rockwell)
2001
71
My Pet Hamster
2002
72
How Animal Babies Stay Safe (By: Mary Ann Fraser)
2001
73
From Seed to Pumpkin
2004
74
Where Do Chicks Come From?
2005
75
Dinosaurs Big and Small (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)
2002
76
Clouds
2009
77
My Pet Hamster (By: Anne Rockwell)
2002
78
A Cavity Is a Hole in Your Tooth
2010
79
From Seed to Pumpkin (By: Wendy Pfeffer)
2004
80
Everybody, Move Your Feet!
2010
81
Where Do Chicks Come From? (By: Amy E. Sklansky)
2005
82
Why Can't I Have Cake for Dinner?
2010
83
Clouds (By: Anne Rockwell)
2009
84
What's for Lunch?
2016
85
A Cavity Is a Hole in Your Tooth (By: Jodi Huelin)
2010
86
The Sun and the Moon
2016
87
Everybody, Move Your Feet! (By: Jodi Huelin)
2010
88
The Arctic Fox’s Journey
2019
89
Why Can't I Have Cake for Dinner? (By: Jodi Huelin)
2010
90
What's for Lunch? (By: Sarah L. Thomson)
2016
91
Super Marsupials
2019
92
Thump Goes the Rabbit
2020
93
The Sun and the Moon (By: Carolyn Cinami Decristofano)
2016
94
The Arctic Fox’s Journey (By: Wendy Pfeffer)
2019
95
Super Marsupials (By: Katharine Kenah)
2019
96
Thump Goes the Rabbit (By: Fran Hodgkins)
2020
Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2 Books (by with Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, with Steve Jenkins, with Carolyn Cinami Decristofano, with Betsy Maestro)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Energy Makes Things Happen
2002
2
Forces Make Things Move
2005
Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2 Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Falcons Nest on Skyscrapers (By: Priscilla Belz Jenkins)
1900
2
The Moon Seems to Change (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
1960
3
The Sun (By: Franklyn M. Branley)
1961
4
What Makes Day and Night (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
1961
5
What the Moon is Like (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
1963
6
Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
1964
7
Your Skin and Mine (By: Paul Showers)
1965
8
A Drop of Blood (By: Paul Showers)
1967
9
Hear Your Heart (By: Paul Showers)
1968
10
Why Frogs Are Wet (By: Judy Hawes)
1968
11
My Visit to the Dinosaurs (By: Aliki)
1969
12
Gravity Is a Mystery (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
1970
13
What Happens to a Hamburger? (By: Paul Showers)
1970
14
The Skeleton Inside You (By: Philip Balestrino)
1971
15
Fossils Tell of Long Ago (By: Aliki)
1972
16
Where Does the Garbage Go? (By: Paul Showers)
1974
17
Sunshine Makes the Seasons (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
1974
18
Milk (By: Aliki)
1974
19
Day Light, Night Light (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
1975
20
Corn Is Maize (By: Aliki)
1976
21
The Sky Is Full of Stars (By: Franklyn M. Branley)
1981
22
Digging Up Dinosaurs (By: Aliki)
1981
23
The Planets in Our Solar System (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
1981
24
Why I Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup, & Yawn (By: Melvin A. Berger)
1983
25
Let's Go Rock Collecting (By: Roma Gans)
1984
26
How to Talk to Your Computer (By: Seymour Simon)
1985
27
Germs Make Me Sick! (By: Melvin A. Berger)
1985
28
Dinosaurs Are Different (By: Aliki)
1985
29
Volcanoes (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
1985
30
Ant Cities (By: Arthur Dorros)
1987
31
Tornado Alert (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
1988
32
Snakes Are Hunters (By: Patricia Lauber)
1988
33
Dinosaur Bones (By: Aliki)
1988
34
What Happened to the Dinosaurs? (By: Franklyn M. Branley)
1989
35
Feel the Wind (By: Arthur Dorros)
1989
36
Switch On, Switch Off (By: Melvin A. Berger)
1989
37
Earthquakes (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley)
1990
38
An Octopus Is Amazing (By: Patricia Lauber)
1990
39
What Will the Weather Be? (By: Lynda DeWitt)
1991
40
Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean (By: Arthur Dorros)
1991
41
Look Out for Turtles! (By: Melvin A. Berger)
1992
42
How Do Apples Grow? (By: Betsy Maestro)
1992
43
Be a Friend to Trees (By: Patricia Lauber)
1993
44
Why Do Leaves Change Color? (By: Betsy Maestro)
1994
45
Elephant Families (By: Arthur Dorros)
1994
46
Who Eats What? (By: Patricia Lauber)
1994
47
Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs (By: Patricia Lauber)
1994
48
How Mountains Are Made (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld)