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".
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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].''

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

''Indie Kidd''

  1. How to be Good
  2. Oops, I Lost My Best Friends
  3. Being Grown-Up Is Cool
  4. Are We Having Fun Yet?
  5. Wow, I’m a Gazillionaire!
  6. My Big Happy Family
  7. Me and the School Fair
  8. 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!''

  1. Happiness, And All That Stuff
  2. Deep Joy, Or Something Like It
  3. It's All Good
  4. ''Smile! It's Meant To Be Fun''

You, Me and Thing

  1. The Curse of the Jelly Babies
  2. The Dreaded Noodle-doodle
  3. The Legend of the Loch Ness Lilo
  4. ''The Mummy That Went Moo''

Angels Next Door

  1. Angels Next Door
  2. Angels in Training
  3. ''Angels Like Me''

St Grizzle's

  1. St Grizzle's School for Girls, Goats and Random Boys
  2. St Grizzle's School for Girls, Ghosts and Runaway Grannies
  3. St Grizzle's School for Girls, Geeks and Tag-along Zombies
  4. ''St Grizzle's School for Girls, Gremlins and Pesky Guests''

Trilogy

  • My Funny ValentineBliss...
  • ''Wonderland''

Stand-alone novels

An Urgent Message Of WownessMarshmallow Magic And The Wild Rose RougeThe Seventeen Secrets Of The Karma ClubSix Words And A WishIn Sarah's ShadowLove is the DrugMy Sister, the Superbitch
  • ''The OMG Blog''