Elaine Alphin

Biography

Elaine Marie Alphin is the author of more than 20 fiction and nonfiction print and ebooks books for teens and children, plus one book for adults about writing for children. She has won numerous awards, including the Mystery Writers Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult mystery for Counterfeit Son (shown in photo), the ForeWard Gold Medal for Young Adult Fiction for The Perfect Shot, the Society of Midland Authors Award for Children's Fiction and the Young Hoosiers Book Award for Ghost Soldier, the Virginia State Reading Association Award for Ghost Cadet, and the Carter G. Woodson Award for An Unspeakable Crime.

Elaine and her husband split their time between Bozeman, Montana, Glenrock, Wyoming and Chamberlain, South Dakota. Elaine loves to visit schools and author conferences all over the country and meet her readers in person.

Where to find Elaine Alphin online

Where to buy in print

Books

Tournament of Time
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 39,820. Language: English. Published: March 20, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Fiction
A mystery by Edgar Award winner Elaine Marie Alphin. When Jess's family moves to York, homesick Jess runs away from school and discovers the spirits of the murdered "Princes in the Tower" imprisoned in stained glass windows. Desperate to escape, the spirits enter into Jess and her brothers, begging to be taken home. But the murderer's spirit has other more sinister plans for Jess and her friends.