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Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley is an American writer known for her children's books and young adult fiction. She is the bestselling author of The War That Saved My Life, which reached number one on the New York Times Bestseller List. Growing up, Brubaker Bradley had a passion for reading and admired her school librarian, but she never envisioned herself as an author. She pursued an interest in chemistry, majoring in it in college, and attended medical school with her husband, who was her high school sweetheart. However, after just six weeks, she realized her true desire was to become a writer. While working as a research chemist, she wrote in the evenings as she and her husband started a family. While pregnant with her second child, she received a contract for her debut book.

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley became a published novelist in 1900 with the novel Falcons Nest on Skyscrapers (By: Priscilla Belz Jenkins). Below is a list of Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2 Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Falcons Nest on Skyscrapers (By: Priscilla Belz Jenkins) (1900) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Moon Seems to Change (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1960) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Sun (By: Franklyn M. Branley) (1961) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What Makes Day and Night (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1961) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What the Moon is Like (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1963) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1964) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Your Skin and Mine (By: Paul Showers) (1965) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Drop of Blood (By: Paul Showers) (1967) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Hear Your Heart (By: Paul Showers) (1968) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Why Frogs Are Wet (By: Judy Hawes) (1968) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
My Visit to the Dinosaurs (By: Aliki) (1969) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Gravity Is a Mystery (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1970) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What Happens to a Hamburger? (By: Paul Showers) (1970) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Skeleton Inside You (By: Philip Balestrino) (1971) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Fossils Tell of Long Ago (By: Aliki) (1972) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Where Does the Garbage Go? (By: Paul Showers) (1974) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Sunshine Makes the Seasons (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1974) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Milk (By: Aliki) (1974) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Day Light, Night Light (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1975) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Corn Is Maize (By: Aliki) (1976) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Sky Is Full of Stars (By: Franklyn M. Branley) (1981) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Digging Up Dinosaurs (By: Aliki) (1981) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Planets in Our Solar System (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1981) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Why I Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup, & Yawn (By: Melvin A. Berger) (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Let's Go Rock Collecting (By: Roma Gans) (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
How to Talk to Your Computer (By: Seymour Simon) (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Germs Make Me Sick! (By: Melvin A. Berger) (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Dinosaurs Are Different (By: Aliki) (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Volcanoes (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Ant Cities (By: Arthur Dorros) (1987) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Tornado Alert (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Snakes Are Hunters (By: Patricia Lauber) (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Dinosaur Bones (By: Aliki) (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What Happened to the Dinosaurs? (By: Franklyn M. Branley) (1989) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Feel the Wind (By: Arthur Dorros) (1989) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Switch On, Switch Off (By: Melvin A. Berger) (1989) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Earthquakes (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
An Octopus Is Amazing (By: Patricia Lauber) (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What Will the Weather Be? (By: Lynda DeWitt) (1991) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Follow the Water from Brook to Ocean (By: Arthur Dorros) (1991) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Look Out for Turtles! (By: Melvin A. Berger) (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
How Do Apples Grow? (By: Betsy Maestro) (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Be a Friend to Trees (By: Patricia Lauber) (1993) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Why Do Leaves Change Color? (By: Betsy Maestro) (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Elephant Families (By: Arthur Dorros) (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Who Eats What? (By: Patricia Lauber) (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs (By: Patricia Lauber) (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
How Mountains Are Made (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats (By: Ann Earle) (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
How Do Birds Find Their Way? (By: Roma Gans) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
You're Aboard Spaceship Earth (By: Patricia Lauber) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What Makes a Magnet? (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Archaeologists Dig for Clues.jpg (By: kate-duke) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Down Comes the Rain (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1997) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Sponges Are Skeletons (By: Barbara Juster Esbensen) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Floating in Space (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What Is the World Made Of? (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Dinosaur Babies (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
International Space Station (By: Franklyn M. Branley) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Terrible Tyrannosaurs (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Penguin Chick (By: Betty Tatham) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Mission to Mars (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Energy Makes Things Happen (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers? (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Spinning Spiders (By: Melvin A. Berger) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Dolphin Talk (By: Wendy Pfeffer) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Wiggling Worms at Work (By: Wendy Pfeffer) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Honey in a Hive (By: Anne Rockwell) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Forces Make Things Move (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Why Are the Ice Caps Melting? (By: Anne Rockwell) (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Who Lives in an Alligator Hole? (By: Anne Rockwell) (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Almost Gone (By: Steve Jenkins) (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Dinosaur Tracks (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
How People Learned to Fly (By: Fran Hodgkins) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What's So Bad About Gasoline? (By: Anne Rockwell) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Life in a Coral Reef (By: Wendy Pfeffer) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Where Do Polar Bears Live? (By: Sarah L. Thomson) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Where Did Dinosaurs Come From? (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Time to Sleep (By: Steve Jenkins,Robin Page) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What Happens to Our Trash? (By: D. J. Ward) (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Light Is All Around Us (By: Wendy Pfeffer) (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
In the Rainforest (By: Kate Duke) (2014) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Sharks Have Six Senses (By: John F. Waters) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Hurricane Watch (By: Melissa Stewart) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Simple Machines (By: D.J. Ward) (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Flood Warning (By: Katharine Kenah) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
How Deep Is the Ocean? (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Phones Keep Us Connected (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Droughts (By: Melissa Stewart) (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Pinocchio Rex and Other Tyrannosaurs (By: Steve Brusatte,Melissa Stewart) (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Running on Sunshine (By: Carolyn Cinami Decristofano) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What Makes a Blizzard? (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
How a City Works (By: D.J. Ward) (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Pandemic Is Worldwide (By: Sarah L. Thomson) (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of She Persisted Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Oprah Winfrey (By: Renée Watson) (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Maya Lin (By: Grace Lin) (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Rosalind Franklin (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Pura Belpré (By: Meg Medina,Marilisa Jimenez Garcia) (2023) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of War Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The War That Saved My Life (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The War I Finally Won (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Night War (2024) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Ruthie's Gift (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
One-of-a-Kind Mallie (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Weaver's Daughter (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Halfway to the Sky (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
For Freedom (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The President's Daughter (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Lacemaker and the Princess (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Leap of Faith (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Jefferson's Sons (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Fighting Words (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
One Night in Dallas (2022) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Picture Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Favorite Things (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Ballerino Nate (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Perfect Pony (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1 Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
How to Be a Nature Detective (By: Millicent E. Selsam) (1958) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Big Tracks, Little Tracks (By: Millicent E. Selsam) (1958) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Tree Is a Plant (By: Clyde Robert Bulla) (1960) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
How a Seed Grows (By: Helene J. Jordan) (1960) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What Makes a Shadow? (By: Clyde Robert Bulla) (1962) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
How Many Teeth? (By: Paul Galdone,Paul Showers) (1962) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Big Dipper (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1962) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
My Hands (By: Aliki) (1962) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Starfish (By: Edith Thacher Hurd) (1962) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
My Five Senses (By: Aliki) (1962) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Air Is All Around You (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1962) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Fireflies in the Night (By: Judy Hawes) (1963) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Animals in Winter (By: Henrietta Bancroft,Richard G. Van Gelder) (1963) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Ducks Don't Get Wet (By: Helen K. Davie,Augusta R. Goldin) (1965) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Sleep Is for Everyone (By: Paul Showers) (1974) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Is There Life in Outer Space? (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Shooting Stars (By: Holly Keller) (1989) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Earthquakes (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
My Feet (By: Aliki) (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
I'm Growing! (By: Aliki) (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
From Tadpole to Frog (By: Wendy Pfeffer) (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What Lives in a Shell? (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Baby Whales Drink Milk (By: Barbara Juster Esbensen) (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Nest Full of Eggs (By: Priscilla Belz Jenkins) (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What's Alive? (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
On the Move (By: Lizzy Rockwell,Deborah Heiligman) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What's It Like to Be a Fish? (By: Wendy Pfeffer) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
From Caterpillar to Butterfly (By: Deborah Heiligman) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What Color Is Camouflage? (By: Carolyn B. Otto) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Safe Home for Manatees (By: Priscilla Belz Jenkins) (1997) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Where Are the Night Animals? (By: Mary Ann Fraser) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Our Puppies Are Growing (By: Carolyn B. Otto) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Sounds All Around (By: Wendy Pfeffer) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Snow Is Falling (By: Franklyn Mansfield Branley) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Pop! (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Bugs Are Insects (By: Anne Rockwell) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
How Animal Babies Stay Safe (By: Mary Ann Fraser) (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Dinosaurs Big and Small (By: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld) (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
My Pet Hamster (By: Anne Rockwell) (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
From Seed to Pumpkin (By: Wendy Pfeffer) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Where Do Chicks Come From? (By: Amy E. Sklansky) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Clouds (By: Anne Rockwell) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Cavity Is a Hole in Your Tooth (By: Jodi Huelin) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Everybody, Move Your Feet! (By: Jodi Huelin) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Why Can't I Have Cake for Dinner? (By: Jodi Huelin) (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
What's for Lunch? (By: Sarah L. Thomson) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Sun and the Moon (By: Carolyn Cinami Decristofano) (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Arctic Fox’s Journey (By: Wendy Pfeffer) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Super Marsupials (By: Katharine Kenah) (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Thump Goes the Rabbit (By: Fran Hodgkins) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

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