Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

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
# Title Year
1 The War That Saved My Life 2015
2 The War I Finally Won 2017
3 The Night War 2024
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
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
# Title Year
1 Favorite Things 2003
2 Ballerino Nate 2006
3 The Perfect Pony 2007
Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1 Books
# Title Year
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)
# Title Year
1 Energy Makes Things Happen 2002
2 Forces Make Things Move 2005
Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2 Books
# Title Year
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) 1995
49 Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats (By: Ann Earle) 1995
50 How Do Birds Find Their Way? (By: Roma Gans) 1996
51 You're Aboard Spaceship Earth (By: Patricia Lauber) 1996
52 What Makes a Magnet? (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) 1996
53 Archaeologists Dig for Clues.jpg (By: kate-duke) 1996
54 Down Comes the Rain (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) 1997
55 Sponges Are Skeletons (By: Barbara Juster Esbensen) 1998
56 Floating in Space (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) 1998
57 What Is the World Made Of? (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 1998
58 Dinosaur Babies (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 1999
59 International Space Station (By: Franklyn M. Branley) 2000
60 Terrible Tyrannosaurs (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 2001
61 Penguin Chick (By: Betty Tatham) 2001
62 Mission to Mars (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) 2002
63 Energy Makes Things Happen 2002
64 Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers? (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 2003
65 Spinning Spiders (By: Melvin A. Berger) 2003
66 Dolphin Talk (By: Wendy Pfeffer) 2003
67 Wiggling Worms at Work (By: Wendy Pfeffer) 2003
68 Honey in a Hive (By: Anne Rockwell) 2005
69 Forces Make Things Move 2005
70 Why Are the Ice Caps Melting? (By: Anne Rockwell) 2006
71 Who Lives in an Alligator Hole? (By: Anne Rockwell) 2006
72 Almost Gone (By: Steve Jenkins) 2006
73 Dinosaur Tracks (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 2007
74 How People Learned to Fly (By: Fran Hodgkins) 2007
75 What's So Bad About Gasoline? (By: Anne Rockwell) 2009
76 Life in a Coral Reef (By: Wendy Pfeffer) 2009
77 Where Do Polar Bears Live? (By: Sarah L. Thomson) 2009
78 Where Did Dinosaurs Come From? (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 2010
79 Time to Sleep (By: Steve Jenkins, Robin Page) 2011
80 What Happens to Our Trash? (By: D. J. Ward) 2012
81 Light Is All Around Us (By: Wendy Pfeffer) 2014
82 In the Rainforest (By: Kate Duke) 2014
83 Sharks Have Six Senses (By: John F. Waters) 2015
84 Hurricane Watch (By: Melissa Stewart) 2015
85 Simple Machines (By: D.J. Ward) 2015
86 Flood Warning (By: Katharine Kenah) 2016
87 How Deep Is the Ocean? (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 2016
88 Phones Keep Us Connected (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 2017
89 Droughts (By: Melissa Stewart) 2017
90 Pinocchio Rex and Other Tyrannosaurs (By: Steve Brusatte, Melissa Stewart) 2017
91 Running on Sunshine (By: Carolyn Cinami Decristofano) 2018
92 What Makes a Blizzard? (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) 2018
93 How a City Works (By: D.J. Ward) 2018
94 A Pandemic Is Worldwide (By: Sarah L. Thomson) 2022
She Persisted Books
# Title Year
1 Ella Fitzgerald (By: Andrea Davis Pinkney) 2002
2 13 American Women Who Changed the World 2017
3 She Persisted Around the World 2018
4 13 American Women Who Changed the World ( By: Chelsea Clinton) 2017
5 She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game 2020
6 She Persisted Around the World ( By: Chelsea Clinton) 2018
7 Harriet Tubman 2021
8 American Olympians Who Changed the Game ( By: Chelsea Clinton) 2020
9 Claudette Colvin 2021
10 Harriet Tubman (By: Andrea Davis Pinkney) 2021
11 Sally Ride 2021
12 Claudette Colvin (By: Lesa Cline-Ransome) 2021
13 Sally Ride ( By: Atia Abawi) 2021
14 Virginia Apgar 2021
15 Nellie Bly 2021
16 Virginia Apgar (By: Sayantani DasGupta) 2021
17 Sonia Sotomayor 2021
18 Nellie Bly (By: Michelle Knudsen) 2021
19 Sonia Sotomayor (By: Meg Medina) 2021
20 Florence Griffith Joyner 2021
21 Ruby Bridges 2021
22 Florence Griffith Joyner (By: Rita Williams-Garcia) 2021
23 Clara Lemlich 2021
24 Ruby Bridges (By: Kekla Magoon) 2021
25 Margaret Chase Smith 2021
26 Clara Lemlich (By: Deborah Heiligman) 2021
27 Maria Tallchief 2021
28 Margaret Chase Smith (By: Ruby Shamir) 2021
29 Helen Keller 2021
30 Maria Tallchief (By: Christine Day) 2021
31 Oprah Winfrey 2021
32 Helen Keller (By: Courtney Sheinmel) 2021
33 Wangari Maathai 2022
34 Oprah Winfrey (By: Renée Watson) 2021
35 She Persisted in Science: Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference 2022
36 Wangari Maathai (By: Eucabeth A. Odhiambo) 2022
37 Temple Grandin 2022
38 Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference (By: Chelsea Clinton) 2022
39 Temple Grandin (By: Lyn Miller-Lachmann) 2022
40 Patsy Mink 2022
41 Patsy Mink (By: Tae Keller) 2022
42 Malala Yousafzai 2022
43 Marian Anderson (By: Katheryn Russell-Brown) 2022
44 Malala Yousafzai (By: Aisha Saeed) 2022
45 Diana Taurasi 2022
46 Wilma Mankiller 2022
47 Diana Taurasi (By: Monica Brown) 2022
48 Wilma Mankiller (By: Traci Sorell) 2022
49 Maya Lin 2022
50 Maya Lin (By: Grace Lin) 2022
51 Dorothy Height 2023
52 Rosalind Franklin 2022
53 Florence Nightingale 2023
54 Dorothy Height (By: Kelly Starling Lyons) 2023
55 Ella Fitzgerald 2023
56 Florence Nightingale (By: Chelsea Clinton, Shelli R. Johannes) 2023
57 Pura Belpré 2023
58 Pura Belpré (By: Meg Medina, Marilisa Jimenez Garcia) 2023
59 Simone Biles 2023
60 Simone Biles (By: Kekla Magoon) 2023