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CANDICE RANSOM

Writing as: Candice Ransom

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According to part of the delightful bio on her website: "When I was ten and adults asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, “Writer-detective-veterinarian-artist.”  Secretly, I really wanted to be a ballet dancer.  But I lived in the country, where dance classes might as well have been held on the moon.

While other kids played kickball and softball in the summer, I slopped hogs and swatted gnats in our hot garden. I hiked in our woods and could name every bird by its song and every tree by its bark, yet I was feverishly jealous of my town cousins, who had sidewalks to ride their bikes on.

I wrote my first book at age seven.  I’d read all the books on the second-grade shelf in our tiny school library. One day on the bus home, I took out a sheet of notebook paper and wrote the immortal sentence, “It was dark.” My career as a writer was launched."



Series Books
 
Time Spies Secret In The Tower (2006)
  Bones In The Badlands (2006)
  Giant In The Garden (2007)
  Magician In The Trunk (2007)
  Signals In The Sky (2007)
  Rider In The Night (2007)
  Horses In The Wind (2007)
  Gold In The Hills (2008)
  Message In The Mountain (2008)
  Flames In The City (2008)
 
Other Almost Ten and a Half [Roberts, Kobie] (1990)
  Amanda [Sunfire] (1984)
  Amanda Panda and the Bigger, Better Birthday (2018)
  Amanda Panda Quits Kindergarten (2017)
  Apple Picking Day! (2016)
  Beach Day! (2020)
  Between Two Worlds (1994)
  The Big Green Pocketbook (1993)
  Big Rigs (2004)
  Big Rigs on the Move (2010)
  Blackbird Keep (1986)
  Bones in the White House (2020)
  Breaking the Rules [Chrystal Falls] (1985)
  Cat's Cradle (1987)
  Children of the Civil War [NF] (1998)
  Chocolate Chip Cookies (2018)
  The Christmas Dolls (1998)
  Clara Barton [NF] (2002)
  Danger At Dolphin Point [NF] (1997)
  Danger At Sand Cave (2000)
  Daniel Boone [NF] (2005)
  The Day of the Black Blizzard [On My Own History] (2009)
  Eerie Haunted Houses (2020)
  Emily [Sunfire] (1985)
  Endangered and Extinct Amphibians [Animals in Danger] (2014)
  Fifteen at Last [Roberts, Kobie] (1987)
  Finding Day's Bottom (2006)
  Fire in the Sky (1996)
  Fourteen and Holding [Roberts, Kobie] (1987)
  French Fries (2018)
  Funniest Sixth Grade Video Ever (1991)
  Garden Day! (2019)
  George Washington [NF] (2002)
  George Washington and the Story of the U.S. Constitution [NF] (2011)
  Go, Go, Tractors! (2021)
  Going on Twelve [Roberts, Kobie] (1988)
  Goldilocks and the Three Bears (2001)
  Graduation Day! (2023)
  Grandparents Day! (2022)
  Hello, Virginia! (2010)
  Hello, Washington, D.C.! (2011)
  Hocus, Pocus After School (1996)
  How Aircraft Carriers Work [NF] (2019)
  How Fighter Jets Work [NF] (2019)
  I Like Shoes (2005)
  Iva Honeysuckle Discovers the World [Iva Honeysuckle] (2012)
  Iva Honeysuckle Meets Her Match [Iva Honeysuckle] (2013)
  James Madison [NF] (2018)
  Jimmy Crack Corn (1994)
  John Hancock [NF] (2004)
  Kaleidoscope [Crosswinds] (1987)
  Kathleen [Sunfire] (1985)
  Key to the Griffon's Lair [Knights of the Silver Dragon] (2005)
  Ladies and Jellybeans (1991)
  Legendary Bigfoot (2020)
  Let's Explore the Five Senses (2020)
  Let's Explore the Sense of Smell (2020)
  Let's Explore the Sense of Touch (2020)
  Lewis and Clark [NF] (2002)
  Liberty Street (2003)
  The Life-saving Adventure of Sam Deal, Shipwreck Rescuer (2010)
  Listening to Crickets [NF] (1993)
  Little Red Riding Hood (2001)
  The Love Charm (1991)
  The Man on Stilts (1997)
  Maria Von Trapp [NF] (2002)
  Martha Washington [NF] (2003)
  Millicent the Magnificent (1989)
  Monsters in a Mess (2022)
  More Than a Name (1994)
  Mother Teresa [NF] (2000)
  My Sister the Creep (1990)
  My Sister the Meanie (1988)
  My Sister the Traitor (1989)
  Mysterious Loch Ness Monster (2020)
  Nicole [Sunfire] (1986)
  The Night of the Hurricane's Fury [On My Own History] (2009)
  The Old Blue Pickup Truck (2009)
  One Christmas Dawn (1994)
  Only Margaret (2021)
  Parts of a Flower (2015)
  Pembroke Welsh Corgis (2019)
  Pony Island (2009)
  Promise Quilt (2002)
  Pumpkin Day! (2015)
  Race for First Place (2022)
  Rebel McKenzie (2012)
  The Rescue Adventure of Stenny Green, Hindenburg Crash Eyewitness (2011)
  Rescue On the Outer Banks [NF] (2000)
  Robert E. Lee [NF] (2005)
  Sabrina [Sunfire] (1986)
  Sam Collier and the Founding of Jamestown (2005)
  School Day! (2022)
  Scrapbooking Just for You! [NF] (2010)
  Seeing Sky-Blue Pink (2007)
  Shooting Star Summer (1992)
  The Silvery Past (1983)
  Sixth-grade High (1991)
  Snow Day! (2018)
  So Young to Die [NF] (1993)
  The Spitball Class (1994)
  Susannah [Sunfire] (1984)
  Teacher's Pest (1996)
  There's One in Every Family (1990)
  Third Grade Detectives [Tales from Third Grade] (1994)
  Third Grade Stars [Tales from Third Grade] (1993)
  Thirteen [Roberts, Kobie] (1990)
  Thomas Jefferson [NF] (2018)
  Today Fifth Grade, Tomorrow the World (1989)
  Tools and Treasures of Ancient China [NF] (2014)
  Tooth Fairy's Night (2017)
  Tractor Day (2007)
  The Twelve Days of Christmas in Washington, D.C. (2010)
  The Underground Adventure of Arly Dunbar, Cave Explorer (2011)
  We're Growing Together (1993)
  What Was the Continental Congress? [NF] (2011)
  When the Whippoorwill Calls (1995)
  Who Needs Third Grade? [Tales from Third Grade] (1993)
  Who Wrote the U.S. Constitution? (2010)
  Why Are Boys So Weird? [Tales from Third Grade] (1993)
  Why Did English Settlers Come to Virginia? [NF] (2011)
  Willie Mclean and the Civil War Surrender (2004)