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James Heneghan is one of today’s foremost authors of historical fiction for children and young adults. His popular, award-winning books, acclaimed for their realism, adventure, action, and suspense, often tell the stories of teenagers struggling to overcome personal difficulties.

“In James Heneghan’s books, reality bites, and it bites hard,” says one critic. “There are no reluctant readers when it comes to James Heneghan’s books,” says public librarian Stella Johannson.

Latest news

• Bank Job, co-authored by Norma Charles, was released on April 1, 2009 by Orca Book Publishers.
  
• Payback was chosen as one of the 2008 Noteworthy Titles by Capitol Choices (Washington, DC) and nominated for the 2008 Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association.
  
• The 2009 Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading readers' choice awards nominated Payback for the Red Maple award.
  

“All of my seventh graders wanted to read Safe House. I had only two copies and had to tell them that they couldn't. They heard from a past class that this was the best book to read and all of them signed up for it. Now I have the number cut down from 17 to 4, with 2 sharing each copy of Safe House that we have in the library.” - Ann Edwards, Teacher Librarian, Rocky Grove Junior/Senior High School, Franklin , PA.