Career

She is probably most famous for the teenage-aimed Kevin and Sadie series, which have sold over one million copies and have been reprinted many times since. Her first novel Liam"s Daughter was an adult-oriented novel published in 1963. Her first children"s novel was The Twelfth Day of July (the first of the five Kevin and Sadie books) in 1970.

Tug of War has also received great success: shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 1989, The Federation of Children"s Book Group Award 1989, runner up in the Lancashire Children"s Book Club of the year 1990 and shortlisted for the Sheffield Book Award.

Her most recent novel, What to Do About Holly was released in August 2009. Lingard was awarded an Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1998 for services to children"s literature.

Achievements

• Lingard received the prestigious West German award the "Buxtehuder Bulle" in 1986 for Across the Barricades. In 1998, her book Tom and the Tree House won the Scottish Arts Council Children"s Book Award.

Works

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  • Tug of War

    (Follows the ordeal of fourteen-year-old twins Astra and H...)

  • Strangers in the House: 2

    (Fourteen-year-old Calum's difficult adjustment to his mot...)

  • The Twelfth Day of July: A Novel of Modern Ireland

    (Sadie, a Protestant, and Kevin, a Catholic, are both attr...)

  • The Tide Comes In by Joan Lingard

    (Light wear to boards, content clean with residue of label...)

  • Twelfth Day Of July (Puffin Teenage Fiction)

    (Sadie is Protestant, Kevin is Catholic - and on the tense...)

  • The Sign of the Black Dagger (Kelpies)

    (When Will & Lucy's dad disappears, their life changes for...)

  • After Colette

    (Amy Balfour, alias Aimee Bussac, vanishes. She is a woman...)

  • Tom and the Tree House (Hodder story book)

    ( Tom is adopted. He has always known about it, but the a...)

  • A sort of freedom: A novel
  • The File on Fraulein Berg
  • Tom and the Treehouse
  • (The File on Fraulein Berg) By (author) Joan Lingard published on (October, 2008)
  • The Eleventh Orphan
  • Odd Girl Out
  • Lord on Our Side
  • The Winter Visitor
  • THE PREVAILING WIND.
  • Tortoise Trouble
  • The Twelfth Day of July (Puffin Modern Classics) by Joan Lingard (Illustrated, 3 Oct 1996) Paperback
  • (The Eleventh Orphan * * ) Author: Joan Lingard Aug-2008
  • The Second Flowering of Emily Mountjoy by Joan Lingard (1989-10-13)
  • The Twelfth Day of July: A Kevin and Sadie Story (Puffin Teenage Fiction) by Joan Lingard (1995-03-30)
  • The Egg Thieves (Story Book) by Joan Lingard (2000-03-16)
  • (The Twelfth Day of July ) Author: Joan Lingard Mar-1995
  • Frying as Usual (Puffin Books) by Joan Lingard (1987-07-30)
  • Glad Rags
  • Tortoise Trouble by Joan Lingard (2002-04-18)
  • The Freedom Machine
  • River Eyes by Joan Lingard (2014-01-01)
  • The Twelfth Day of July
  • The Sign of the Black Dagger (Kelpies) by Joan Lingard (2014-09-01)