David Patneaude

David Patneaude is the popular author of nine novels and one collection of stories for young (and not so young) readers. His first novel, Someone Was Watching, was published in 1993. It went on to be named to eight state young readers' lists and win awards in South Dakota and Utah. It was the runner-up to The Giver for the 1995-96 Rebecca Caudill Award in Illinois. The Texas Library Association named it to its ten-year "Best of the Best" Texas Lone Star Reading List in 2005. It became an audio...See more

David Patneaude is the popular author of nine novels and one collection of stories for young (and not so young) readers. His first novel, Someone Was Watching, was published in 1993. It went on to be named to eight state young readers' lists and win awards in South Dakota and Utah. It was the runner-up to The Giver for the 1995-96 Rebecca Caudill Award in Illinois. The Texas Library Association named it to its ten-year "Best of the Best" Texas Lone Star Reading List in 2005. It became an audio book and was published in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. In 2002 Dreamchaser Entertainment produced it as a movie of the same name. David's other books have been nominated to dozens of young readers' lists and have been recognized by various organizations and reviewers. They've been honored by the New York Public Library, the Society of School Librarians International, the Winnetka (Illinois) Public Library's "One Book, Two Villages" program, the Seattle and King County Public Libraries' "Global Reading Challenge" programs, and the Washington State Public Library. Over the years, he's visited hundreds of schools and appeared at numerous conferences for both young readers and friends of young readers to talk about writing and reading and his books. When he's not at a school or library or conference, or in a coffee shop writing, or out on the trail thinking about writing, he's home in Woodinville, Washington with his wife Judy, a middle school librarian. Fast Backward is his tenth novel. See less