Jean Mills

Jean Mills is a Canadian young adult and children's novelist, based in Guelph, Ontario. In addition to her novels and freelance writing, she has also served as a writing workshop presenter at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival and writer-in-residence at St. John's-Kilmarnock School.

Publications

After the Wallpaper Music Wingman Bliss Adair and the First Rule of Knitting The Legend Larkin on the Shore Skating Over Thin Ice Dude! Andrew and the Babysitter Joey and the Firehall Ghost The Ugly Duckling The Toymaker's Son Abby and the Curling Chicks The Legacy

''Wild Dog Summer''

Reception

Whippoorwill Book Award for Rural YA Literature -- Larkin on the Shore
USBBY Outstanding International Books List -- Skating Over Thin Ice
Nominee for the Forest of Reading Red Maple Award -- Skating Over Thin Ice
Winner of the Professional Writers Association of Canada Barbara Novak Award for Memoir/Humour Writing -- "the roots of her story," published in ''The Globe and Mail''