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Michael Northrop is the author of two YA novels—Gentlemen, one of the American Library Association's "Best Books for Young Adults" for 2010, and Trapped, a Spring 2011 Indie Next List selection—and the new middle grade novel Plunked. He spent 12 years chasing stories at Sports Illustrated Kids, the last five as baseball editor. His articles and stories have been published widely.


Average rating: 3.24 · 2,420 ratings · 842 reviews · 4 distinct works
Trapped
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 1,991 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions
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Gentlemen
3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 avg rating — 391 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012
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“The easiest thing to do with something that was bothering you was always to make fun of it.”
Michael Northrop, Gentlemen

“I was thinking: Is this what love is, feeling like you've been spun around underwater? Forgetting how cold you are, until she looks up and you look down and you're embarrassed and the world comes rushing back in? Or is love not being able to get that image out of your head, the image of the moment right before she looked up?”
Michael Northrop, Trapped

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