Maine Writers Index - Detail
(Return to List)Alice Mead (1952 - )
Alice Mead(1952 - )
Alice Mead, a writer of realistic books for children and young adults, was born in
New York and has lived in Maine for over 20 years, now in Portland with her
husband and two sons. She received her B.A. in English from
Bryn Mawr College, an M.A. in elementary education from Univ. of
Southern California, and a B.A. in art education from Univ. of Southern Maine.
She has taught art and flute in Maine schools and founded a pre-school.
She's also founded her own press, Loose Cannon Press, in Cumberland,
which has published a couple of her books.
Mead's books include:
- Crossing the Starlight Bridge
(1994), about a Penobscot family
- Walking the Edge (1995), set on Beals Island
- Journey to Kosova (1995), about her 1994 trip to Kosova
- Junebug (1995)
- Giants of the Dawnland (1996), eight ancient Wabanaki legends
- Adem's Cross (1996), written after her 1996 trip to Kosova
- Junebug and the Reverend (1998)
- Soldier Mom (1999), about a single mother called to fight in the Persian Gulf War
- Billy & Emma (2000)
- Girl of Kosovo (2001)
- Junebug in Trouble (2002): Junebug is concerned about his friend Robert, who is tempted to join a gang.
- Year of No Rain (2003): In the spring of 1999, 11-year-old
Stephen and his friends are forced to flee when rebel soldiers come
to their village in southern Sudan.
- Madame Squidley and Beanie (2004): Beanie is a young girl at a loss for how
to help her mother, who has a chronic illness.
- Swimming to America (2005): Children who enter the U.S. illegally.
- Isabella's Above-Ground Pool (2006, illus. Maryann Cocca-Leffler): Nine-year-old
Isabella Speedwalker-Juarez has to rethink her motto, 'I won't share 'cuz it's not fair!'
- Dawn and Dusk (2007): A YA book about a young Kurdish boy who fears that his town
will be the target of a chemical attack by Iraq.
- Nowish: A Life Out of Time, a memoir of Mead's struggles with breast cancer, divorce, loss of physical function, and the elder-care system.
Last Update: 05/18/2009(
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