Karen McCombie


Karen McCombie is a Scottish author of children's books and young adult novels. McCombie has published more than 100 books. In 2021, Waterstones described her as "one of children's fiction's most accomplished authors".

Life

McCombie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. Growing up, her favorite book series was Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series.
McCombie wrote her first book at age 34, at which time she was working as a magazine journalist.

Series

''Ally's World''

  2. Dates, Double Dates and Big, Big Trouble
  3. Butterflies, Bullies and Bad, Bad Habits
  4. Friends, Freak-outs and Very Secret Secrets
  5. Boys, Brothers and Jelly-Belly Dancing
  6. Sisters, Super-creeps and Slushy, Gushy Love Songs
  7. Parties, Predicaments and Undercover Pets
  8. Tattoos, Tell-tales and Terrible, Terrible Twins
  9. Mates, Mysteries and Pretty Weird Weirdness
  10. Daisy, Dad and the Huge, Small Surprise
  11. Rainbows, Rowan and True, True Romance
  12. Visitors, Vanishings and Va-Va-Va Voom
  13. Crushes, Cliques and the Cool, School Trip
  14. Hassles, Heart-pings!, and Sad, Happy Endings
  15. Sunshine, Sunburn And Not-So-Sweet-Nothings
  16. Angels, Arguments and a Furry, Merry Christmas
Plus:
  1. A Guided Tour of Ally's World
  2. ''My V. Groovy Ally's World Journal''

    ''[Stella Etc].''

  3. Frankie, Peaches and Me
  4. Sweet-Talking TJ
  5. Meet The Real World, Rachel
  6. Truly, Madly Megan
  7. Amber and the Hot Pepper Jelly
  8. Twists, Turns and 100% Tilda
  9. ''Forever and Ever and Evie''

    ''Indie Kidd''

  10. How to be Good
  11. Oops, I Lost My Best Friends
  12. Being Grown-Up Is Cool
  13. Are We Having Fun Yet?
  14. Wow, I’m a Gazillionaire!
  15. My Big Happy Family
  16. Me and the School Fair
  17. I Spy a White Lie
Specials:
  1. My Pet Project
  2. Indie Kidd's Best Friend Guide
  3. ''Indie Kidd's Guide to Fun for Free''

    ''Sadie Rocks!''

  4. Happiness, And All That Stuff
  5. Deep Joy, Or Something Like It
  6. It's All Good
  7. ''Smile! It's Meant To Be Fun''

    You, Me and Thing

  8. The Curse of the Jelly Babies
  9. The Dreaded Noodle-doodle
  10. The Legend of the Loch Ness Lilo
  11. ''The Mummy That Went Moo''

    Angels Next Door

  12. Angels Next Door
  13. Angels in Training
  14. ''Angels Like Me''

    St Grizzle's

  15. St Grizzle's School for Girls, Goats and Random Boys
  16. St Grizzle's School for Girls, Ghosts and Runaway Grannies
  17. St Grizzle's School for Girls, Geeks and Tag-along Zombies
  18. ''St Grizzle's School for Girls, Gremlins and Pesky Guests''

    Trilogy

  • My Funny Valentine
  • Bliss...
  • ''Wonderland''

    Stand-alone novels

  • An Urgent Message Of Wowness
  • Marshmallow Magic And The Wild Rose Rouge
  • The Seventeen Secrets Of The Karma Club
  • Six Words And A Wish
  • In Sarah's Shadow
  • Love is the Drug
  • My Sister, the Superbitch
  • ''The OMG Blog''