The Greater Rochester

Teen Book Festival

"To foster a community effort to celebrate and promote reading by connecting teens and authors."

Nancy Werlin
Nancy Werlin was born and raised in Peabody, Massachusetts, USA and now lives near Boston. She received her bachelor's degree in English from Yale. 

Since then, she has worked as a technical writer and editor for several computer software and Internet companies, while also writing fiction. 

Known for writing psychological thrillers, Nancy’s books have won several awards.  Among them, The Killer's Cousin was not only a Best Book for Young Adults as well as a Top 10 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers but also the 1999 Edgar Award winner for Best Young Adult Mystery and the winner of several state book awards.  Most recently, Rules of Survival was a finalist for The National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

Travel for Nancy Werlin to attend TBF LIVE! has been provided by Penguin Group.  

           
Books by Nancy Werlin

 

                                                                                                            Rules of Survival
A thought-provoking exploration of self-reliance and the nature of evil and a heart-wrenching portrait of a family in crisis, this is Nancy Werlin's most compulsively readable novel yet.
 

  

 

                                                                                                              Double Helix
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
 

 

 

                                                                                                            Black Mirror 
Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.

 

  

                                                                                                             Locked Inside
After she is kidnapped from the exclusive boarding school she attends, heiress Marnie Skyedottir must rethink her idealized relationship with her mother, her own sense of who she is, and her relationships with others.

 

                                                                                                             Killer's Cousins
After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.