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2006 National Book Award Finalist
Young People's Literature

Photo credit: Meghan Moore, 2006
Nancy Werlin
The Rules of Survival
Dial/Penguin

About the Book
A heart-wrenching portrait of a family in crisis and of the son, Matt, who refuses to let his family remain at risk.

About the Author
Nancy Werlin has written five previous novels, including Double Helix, Black Mirror, and The Killer's Cousin, which won the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery and was named one of the "100 Best of the Best for the 21st Century" by the American Library Association. A graduate of Yale College, she lives near Boston, Massachusetts.

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www.nancywerlin.com

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Backlist

  • Are You Alone on Purpose, Houghton Mifflin (1994)
  • The Killer's Cousin, Random House/Delacorte (1998)
  • Locked Inside, Random House/Delacorte (2000)
  • Black Mirror, Penguin Putnam/Dial (2001)
  • Double Helix, Penguin Putnam/Dial (2004)


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