r.a. nelson

Awards and nominations


West Virginia News and Sentinel Best Books of the Year 2010


Nominated for 2010 Rodda Book Award


2009 Parent’s Choice Recommended Seal Winner


YALSA 2009 Amazing Audiobooks Nomination


Flamingnet Young Adult Top Choice Award 2010


2008 New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age


Nominated for the 2008 Best Books for Young Adults List


Teensreadtoo.com Hall of Fame Gold Star Award


Tamora Pierce, Favorite Reads of 2007


Flamingnet Top Choice Award


Night Owl Romance Reviewer Top Pick


Books for the Teen Age (2006) selected by the New York Public Library


Booksense Fall 2005 Kid Picks


Romance Times Best Books of 2005


YALSA BBYA 2006 Best Books for Young Adults (nominated)


Best Young Adult Literature of 2005, Iowa City School District


Horn Book Magazine 2005 Newcomers List


Miami Herald Best Books of the Year 2005


Teenreads.com Best Books of the Year 2005


Michigan Library Association 2006 Thumbs Up! Award (Top Twenty)


Great Books 2005 Baltimore County Public Library


Dona Vaughn SCBWI Work-in-Progress Grant


audio books and foreign editions





A terrifying attack triggers an epileptic seizure that changes Emma Cooper's life forever. Now she is half human and half...something else...something with impossible strength, speed, and senses. But, unlike her attacker, Emma doesn't have to drink blood or fear the sun. Is she some new kind of superhuman? There's just one catch: the monsters are still out there, desperate to know her secret. And they're coming to kill her for it. Read Throat excerpts and reviews



R onald Earl Pettway, better known to his devoted followers as Little Texas, has been on the road six years preaching the gospel as a "child evangelist" and faith healer. Now 16, his hormones are running wild and he's beginning to have doubts. What is the meaning of his unsettling dreams? Why is the beautiful girl he just healed showing up wherever he goes, always wearing the same blue dress? And what diabolical evil is she leading him to on Devil Hill? Read Days of Little Texas excerpts and reviews



Frances is falling in love for the very first time. But she has a devastating secret. One day, 11 years ago, her mother Afton suffered a psychotic break with the real world and smothered her own children with a pillow. Frances alone survived. What will her new boyfriend think about her twisted past? Especially now that Afton has sent a chilling message: "I need to see you. We have to finish." Frances and Nix embark on a forbidden journey to confront the monster in its lair so Frances can find peace. Or die trying. Read Breathe My Name excerpts and reviews



Nine has never needed anyone except her best friend Schuyler. Her head is in the stars while everyone else is earthbound. But her new poetry teacher’s quicksilver mind and smoldering good looks explode into her world like a supernova. When they launch into a star-crossed affair that sends Nine into orbit, then threatens to burn her alive on re-entry, she targets Mr. Mann as the object of her rage and obsession. Read Teach Me excerpts and reviews





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"mind-blowing"

-read for your future

"spine chilling"

-bookpage

"gorgeous love story" -superfastreader.com

"blew me away"

-pw galley talk

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