Arlys
Avery
Author of Kissing books
featuring great friendships, cute boys, and smart girls
books
Good Girls Gone Jane Series
Kissing Owen Darcy
Book One in the GGGJ Series
Kissing Freddy Again
Book Two in the GGGJ SEries
Christmas Kisses
for Jade and Bingley
About
Arlys Avery was first published in Stone Soup Children’s magazine when she was in 3rd grade. She thinks it was a limerick about a man with a very large nose, or maybe it was about crows, but since she had peaked early in poetry, she decided to change her trajectory toward happy endings, great friendships, smart girls, frustrating cute boys, and swoon-inducing smooches.
Arlys grew up in the kind of small Midwest town that hosts homecoming parades and 4-H fairs and where danger was a night spent with friends toilet-papering the home of her latest crush.
She is borderline fanatical about notebooks (most of which she refuses to write in), a lover of all things Jane Austen, a wannabe runner, a Gryffindor, and a zombie enthusiast who is also passionate in her hunt for the perfect lipgloss.
Even though she still gets a zit just in time for school picture day, Arlys has made the brave decision to make her career with middle schoolers at an Independent School near Beverly Hills… and she loves it.
customer reviews
So great to read! fun, wholesome! Love the Pride and Prejudice twist. Highly recommend this book. Bravo, Ms. Avery for your book debut!
– Becca M.
This is a delightful, easy read. It shows the power of friendship and the importance of being true to yourself. Definitely a book I can whole-heartedly recommend to my 7th and 8th grade students.
– Jen
I loved the characters in this book and could not put it down. The writing was sensational! From the small town fairs to the big city offer shops to the dresses and hairdos-I could imagine it all. Isn’t that what good writers do?
– Michelle B.
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