Tony Abbott





Tony Abbott

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Tony Abbott (born 1952) is an American author of children's books. His most popular work is the book series The Secrets of Droon, which includes over 40 books. He has sold over 12 million copies of his books and they have been translated into several other languages, including Italian, Spanish, Korean, French, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, and Russian. He has also written the bestseller "Firegirl".
Abbott was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1952. His father was a university professor and had an extensive library of books which became one of Abbott's first sources of literature. When he was eight years old, his family moved to Connecticut where he went through elementary school and high school.
Abbott attended the University of Connecticut, and after...more


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OF ALL THE EARLY Decembers of my childhood, one of the things I remember most is a single, silent ritual by which my father announced the coming of Christmas. Some frosty morning not long after Thanksgiving, but never before December had started, he would pull down from a bookshelf in his study a small battered slipcase, remove a little brown book with a gold holly wreath stamped on its cover,...

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Average rating: 3.83 · 18,790 ratings · 1,514 reviews · 110 distinct works · Similar authors
Firegirl
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 2,517 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions
The Hidden Stairs and the M...
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 1,400 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions
Journey to the Volcano Pala...
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 771 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions
The Mysterious Island (The ...
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 659 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions
City in the Clouds (The Sec...
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 579 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions
The Great Ice Battle (The S...
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 535 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions
The Golden Wasp (The Secret...
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 486 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
The Sleeping Giant of Goll ...
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 487 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions
Kringle
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 430 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
Into the Land of the Lost (...
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 414 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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3.8755177676040984 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 13,761 ratings
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4.043844856661045 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
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3.9105793450881614 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 794 ratings
The Battle Begins When Monsters Escape Underworlds #3: Revenge of ... Underworlds #4: The Ice Dragon
Underworlds (4 books)
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3.778894472361809 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Cracked Classics (6 books)
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3.786259541984733 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 131 ratings
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“Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!”
Tony Abbott

“At one level, the Opposition's most urgent job, between now and the next election, is to publicise the government's mistakes. Randolph Churchill once declared that oppositions should oppose everything, propose nothing and turf the government out. He was right in this fundamental respect: the opposition's job is to get elected. Intelligent oppositions have no unnecessary enemies. They make the government rather than themselves the issue by ensuring that everyone harmed by government decisions well and truly
knows about it.”
Tony Abbott

“On the outside it doesn't look like very much happened. A burned girl was in my class for a while. Once I brought her some homework. In class she said my name. Then she was gone. That's pretty much all that happened.”
Tony Abbott, Firegirl

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