Background
Wallace was born and spent her childhood in China, where she attended Shanghai American School, but came to live in the United States during high school.
Wallace was born and spent her childhood in China, where she attended Shanghai American School, but came to live in the United States during high school.
She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles where she was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority.
San Francisco was a port of entry for the family many times. She is given high praise by the American Library Association. In 2009, Wallace tapped the creative development group, Pangea Corporation, to represent and develop her series of books into animated and live action entertainment.
The trilogy series, Mission Switch, had previously enjoyed a popular run on the successful television program, the American Broadcasting Company Weekend Specials, garnering the highest Nielsen ratings of all the episodes.
Wallace"s Hawkins books (which were notable offerings from the elite Scholastic Book Club) were also featured as live action films on the American Broadcasting Company Weekend Specials. lieutenant was announced in September 2011 that Wallace"s new novel, Diary of a Little Devil, would be published as a digital eBook on the Kindle and Nook platforms.
The deal was the result of Pangea"s efforts and culminates with additional books to be released in the same manner, including a new edition to the Mission Switch series, entitled Mission Switch and the Vile Villains.
She won two Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America for The Twin in the Tavern (1994) and Sparrows in the Scullery (1998). Cousins in The Castle (1997) and Ghosts in the Gallery (2001) were also nominated for an Edgar Award. Wallace"s books are often compared to Lemony Snicket as well as books by Joan Lowery Nixon, a four-time recipient of the Edgar Award, and Beverly Cleary.
(How, Amelia wonders, could four short months have such a ...)
(What is the secret? In a grim tenement district of New ...)
( School isn't the same for Rupert Brown and Amelia Dale...)
(Fearing a return to the forest now that he is descented, ...)
(Newly orphaned Jenny travels from China to live with a gr...)
(Emily Luccock thought the worst was behind her; she had s...)
(After a series of unhappy experiences in a new city, Andy...)
( Fifth grade was a year full of flying brooms, spells-g...)
(Having once been snubbed by a former best friend, Claudia...)
(Perfecta Jones is hemmed in by boring houses that to her ...)
(The Perils of Peppermints Wallace, Barbara Brooks ( Autho...)
