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The Iowa Teen Apple

May 14, 2012 Books

I neglected to post this here last week, but I thought you might like to see the Golden Apple that arrived a few days ago — my prize for winning the Iowa Teen Reader Award. Iowa teen readers voted my novel The Last Thing I Remember their favorite. I put the apple on my mantlepiece between [...]

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“Last Thing” Wins Iowa Award

April 16, 2012 News

The Last Thing I Remember — the first installment in Andrew’s Homelanders series of thriller novels for young adults — has received the the 2012 Iowa Teen Award. The award, sponsored by the Iowa Association of School Librarians/Iowa Library Association, goes to the author whose book receives the most votes from students in grades six through [...]

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Last Thing Hits #4 At Nook Books

April 2, 2012 News

The Last Thing I Remember, the first book in Andrew’s Homelanders series of thrillers for young adults, hit #4 at Barnes & Noble’s Nook Books site over the weekend. Last Thing was selected as The Daily Find at the site, and offered for a low price all day Friday. The book, first published in 2009, [...]

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Charlie in Germany

February 13, 2012 Books

As you can read in the news section, my Homelanders series has started publication in Germany.  Here’s the cover art:

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Homelanders Series Begins in Germany

February 13, 2012 News

Publisher Thienemann Verlag has begun publishing Andrew’s Homelanders series of young adult thriller novels in Germany.  The Last Thing I Remember is now out as Stunde Null — which translates as Zero Hour.  The adventures of Charlie West — who went to sleep in his own bed one night only to wake up in the clutches [...]

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Homelanders in the Hollywood Reporter

August 15, 2011 Culture

This article in last week’s Hollywood Reporter laid out the team that will be tackling the Homelanders movie: Miles Chapman has been hired to pen Summit’s adaptation of Homelanders, a young-adult book series by Andrew Klavan. Screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, best known as the showrunners of TV’s Smallville, are working with Chapman in [...]

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Final Hour Now Out In July

June 7, 2011 News

The fourth and final installment of Andrew’s Homelanders series of thrillers for young adults will now be published by Thomas Nelson July 19th, a month earlier than originally announced.  The Final Hour brings to a conclusion the story that began with The Last Thing I Remember.  The series follows teenager Charlie West, who goes to [...]

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BreakPoint Praises Last Thing

March 1, 2011 News

Chuck Colson’s BreakPoint website had a teen fiction week last week, and Wednesday’s entry featured a review and excerpt of The Last Thing I Remember.  Gina Dalfonzo delivered high praise to the kick-off novel of Andrew’s Homelanders thriller series for young adults, saying, “Klavan’s book is very well written, with an engaging young hero whose [...]

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TeensReadToo Loves Long Way Home

February 15, 2011 Books

The excellent young adult book website TeensReadToo has given five stars and a Gold Star Award to The Long Way Home, book two of what will ultimately be my four book Homelanders series of YA thrillers.   Three are out so far.  The Last Thing I Remember is number one; number three is The Truth of [...]

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“Last Thing” Up for Readers Award

January 18, 2011 News

The Last Thing I Remember – the lead-off novel in Andrew’s Homelanders series of thrillers for young adults – has been nominated for the 2011-2012 Truman Readers Award for the state of Missouri.  Last Thing and the eleven other nominees will be presented to readers in the sixth through eighth grade throughout the Show-Me state [...]

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