Alan Venable

Biography

Alan Venable was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lives in San Francisco. Ratting on Russo is his first novel. Previous fiction includes many titles for children, among them "The Checker Players," ("Intelligence and humor...It has that rare substance." --New York Times Book Review. "Charm and sense." --New York Magazine.)

Where to find Alan Venable online

Where to buy in print

Books

Take Me With You When You Go
Price: $4.95 USD. Words: 21,320. Language: English. Published: September 16, 2013 by One Monkey Books. Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Fairy tales & fables, Fiction » Children’s books » Readers / Chapter Books
"Once together, never apart" begins this eco-folktale of young boy-girl twins whose aged mountain granny sends them in search of parents who seemingly abandoned them as infants. Courage, kindness, loyalty, and magic help reunite the family and revive an ailing natural world. "A great bedtime story for the older child." ForeWord Magazine
Ratting on Russo
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 45,590. Language: English. Published: June 30, 2013 by One Monkey Books. Categories: Fiction » Coming of age
(5.00 from 1 review)
In the East End of Pittsburgh of the late 1950s, outcast, accordion-playing Marty falls under the spell of his eighth-grade classmate, 16-year-old Russo, a lonely, working-class, car-crazy crooner. Deep in the post-war not-yet-rusted heart of bucolic Western Pennsylvania, what could go wrong?