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An avid reader, Cooney read many books while she was in elementary school, the three books that mostly impacted her during that era being Sword of The Wilderness by Elizabeth Coalsworth , Indian Captive , by Lois Lenski , and Black River Captive by West Lanthrop .

Cooney played the piano, directed a chorus and was a church organ player by the time she was 15. When she was a teenager, she favored reading The Hardy Boys , and Cherry Ames .

During college, she studied arts, music and English. It was in college that she began to write and considered writing as a career for the first time.

She has written 69 books and earned various important awards for many of them.

Among her books:

• The Ransom of Mercy Carter
• Janie Series
  • The Face on the Milk Carton (First book of the Janie series)
  • Whatever Happened to Janie? (Part of the Janie series)
  • The Voice on the Radio (Part of the Janie series)
  • What Janie Found (Final book of the Janie series)
• Burning Up
• Turn in Anytime
• Mummy
• The Terrorist

In addition, her novels Driver's Ed , Among Friends , Twenty Pageants Later , Both Sides of Time and Out of Times have also garnered her various important awards, including the ALA award .