Client details
Sophie McKenzie
Children's Author
Agent
| Jodie Marsh | +44 (0) 20 3214 0891 |
About
Sophie McKenzie is a teen fiction writer who has also produced books for younger children. Her first book, the thriller Girl, Missing, was published in 2006. It has won a number of awards and was chosen as one of the first Richard and Judy children’s book club winners. When she’s not writing herself, Sophie works as a creative writing teacher. She is also available for author events in schools, and at festivals and conferences. Sophie has one son and lives in London. You can find out more about her on her website: www.sophiemckenzie.net LATEST PUBLICATION: SISTER MISSING ( Simon and Schuster, 15th September, 2011) It's two years after the events of Girl, Missing and life is not getting any easier for sixteen-year-old Lauren, as exam pressure and a recent family tragedy take their toll. Lauren's birth mother takes Lauren and her two sisters on holiday in the hope that some time together will help, but a few days into the holiday one of the sisters disappears, under circumstances very similar to those in which Lauren was taken years before. Can Lauren save her sister, and stop the nightmare happening all over again? TIME TRAIN TO THE BLITZ has just made the Red House Children's Book Awards 2011 shortlist. To vote for the novel to win the Younger Reader's Category- Click here! |
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Fiction
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| DOUBLE CROSS: THE MEDUSA PROJECT 2011 Simon & Schuster | Narrated by Nico, Double-Cross is full of telekinetic action as the Medusa Project team arrive in Sydney, Australia, for another exciting mission - and come face-to-face with two more Medusa teens: Cal, a boy who can fly, and Amy, a girl who can shapeshift...but who is double-crossing who? |
| THE RESCUE (THE MEDUSA PROJECT) 2010 Simon & Schuster | Fourteen years ago, four babies were implanted with the Medusa gene - a gene for psychic abilities. Now teenagers, Nico, Ketty, Ed and Dylan have been brought together by government agents to create a secret crime-fighting force: The Medusa Project. Since their existence became known to members of the criminal underworld, they have been hidden away in a secluded training camp in Spain, where their identities are being kept secret. Life in camp is hard enough, but then things take a turn for the worse. Ed is blackmailed into using his mind-reading powers - and in doing so he threatens to endanger the whole Medusa Project... |
| TRAUN TIME TO THE BLIZT 2010 Usborne | It all starts when a mysterious train appears in the park. Before they know what's happening, Joe and Scarlett are whisked away on a journey back in time. Magically transported to World War II they're given a mission: to save a young boy's life. But with bombs falling on London they find they are counting down to disaster... |
| THE THEIF 2010 Simon & Schuster | THE THIEF Fourteen years ago, four babies were implanted with the Medusa gene - a gene for psychic abilities. Now teenagers, Nico, Ketty, Ed and Dylan have been brought together by government agents to create a secret crime-fighting force - The Medusa Project. On their way to a distant boot camp, the four teens are attacked and forced to carry out a high-risk diamond theft...WALKING THE WALLS Felix is not scared to be different - but his fellow pupils find him confusing. Felix doesn't care, but everyone around him seems to have something to say about how he's living his life...Why can't they just let him be Felix? |
| BLOOD RANSOM 2010 Simon & Schuster | Clones Rachel and Theo now live thousands of miles apart. They keep in touch, but things just aren't the same. When Rachel discovers that evil scientist Elijah is still working in secret for a section of the government and about to murder Daniel, she sets out to rescue the little boy, but her plans backfire with disastrous consequences. Across the Atlantic, Theo becomes suspicious when Rachel misses their weekly internet chat. He discovers a report online saying she's killed herself and travels to Scotland to find her, certain that she has been kidnapped. A clue leads him to Elijah's mysterious clinic, where the sinister Aphrodite Experiment is underway. But what is Elijah really planning? Why does he need to track Rachel down so badly? And will Rachel and Theo be able to pay the ultimate ransom that he demands? |
| BLOOD TIES 2008 Simon & Schuster | Theo gives his bodyguard the slip once too often. Rachel receives a weird text from her father. So begins a highly dangerous search to unravel unanswered questions about their past. Linked by the firebombing of a research clinic, Theo and Rachel fear they may be targets of an extremist group and end up running for their lives. OVERALL WINNER OF RED HOUSE CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2009 |
| THREE'S A CROWD 2008 Simon & Schuster | Luke and Eve head off on their first holiday together. But they’re staying with Eve’s dad in his Spanish hotel and as soon as they arrive, Luke knows things aren’t going to go to plan… Eve’s dad treats his daughter like a little girl. And he isn’t the only threat looming on the horizon! Will Luke be able to overcome his jealousy and trust Eve, or is this going to end as the holiday from hell? |
| SIX STEPS TO A GIRL 2007 Simon & Schuster | The first book about Luke and Eve. Luke’s father has just died and, while the rest of the family are devastated, Luke himself unable to grieve. At the funeral Luke sees the beautiful Eve – the perfect distraction from his messed-up family life. There’re two problems though – Eve’s a year older than Luke, and already has a boyfriend. Luke soon despairs of ever getting Eve to notice him. Then he meets Ryan and hears about his ‘Six Steps’ method to guaranteed success with any girl. Luke determines to put it to the test. Step-by-step, he begins to get closer to Eve, but what’s going to happen when her boyfriend finds out? |
| GIRL, MISSING 2006 Simon & Schuster | Lauren was adopted when she was three. She doesn’t know anything about her life before then, and her adoptive parents aren’t talking. Now fourteen, she is desperate to know more about her mysterious past. One day she comes across details of a little girl, on a missing children’s website, who was stolen from her family just weeks before Lauren herself was adopted. Is the little girl her? Together with her friend Jam, Lauren sets out to find out the truth about her past – a journey that takes her to America and into terrible danger… A Richard and Judy children’s books winner. Also winner of Older Readers category of The Red House Children`s Book award 2007, the Bolton Children`s Book Award 2007 and the Manchester Children’s Book Award 2008. Nominated for The Grampian Children`s Book Award 2008 and the Solihull John Lewis Children’s Book Award 2008. |
| HUNTED: THE MEDUSA PROJECT 2010 Simon & Schuster | Dylan, the daughter of the scientist who created the Medusa gene for psychic powers, has never felt she really fits into the crime-fighting Medusa Project. But then she makes a discovery about her father's death which changes everything. As she and the other Medusa teens search for the truth, Dylan meets Harry - a boy who seems to know more about Dylan's past than she does. But can Dylan trust him? While Dylan searches for the mysterious legacy that her father has left her from beyond the grave, her dad's killer closes in. But just how far is the murderer prepared to go to keep Dylan from finding out the truth? |
Other
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| ALSO BY SOPHIE MCKENZIE: | THE FIX Barrington Stoke - 2009 ARTHUR'S SWORD A & C Black Publishers - 2008 SHORT STORIES: THE LIE A & C Black Publishers - 2008 T4J(part of collection - 'you're the best') Kingfisher - 2006 |
