Photo: Meg VanderLee

Karen Rivers was born on 12 June 1970 in Nanaimo, British Columbia and grew up in Victoria. She studied writing at the University of Victoria and earned a B.A. in international relations in 1991 from the University of British Columbia. Rivers lives in Victoria.

indicates a review is available for that book

Books by Karen Rivers

	1999 Dream Water (young adult)
	1999 The Tree Tattoo (novel)
	2000 Waiting to Dive (children)
	2001 Surviving Sam (young adult)
	2002 The Gold Diggers Club (children) re-released as Barely Hanging On (2007)
	2003 The Healing Time of Hickeys (young adult)
	2005 The Cure for Crushes, and Other Deadly Plagues (young adult)
	2006 The Quirky Girls' Guide to Rest Stops and Road Trips (young adult)
	2007 The Actual Total Truth (children)
	2007 X in Flight (young adult)
	2008 Y in the Shadows (young adult) Yale discovers that she has the ability to disappear.
	2008 What Z Sees (young adult) Zara discovers she can see people's thoughts.
	2011 What is Real
	2012 The Encyclopedia of Me
Printer-friendly version

Awards

• Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
  • 2000 – Dream Water – Shortlisted
  • 2003 – The Gold Diggers Club – Shortlisted

• Silver Birch Award
  • 2002 – Waiting to Dive – Shortlisted

• White Pine Award
  • 2003 – Surviving Sam – Shortlisted

Links

• Official site

Comments

Added 23 February 2009.
Updated 01 July 2013.