Lynne Reid Banks (Author of The Indian in the Cupboard)

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Lynne Reid Banks

Born

in London, England, The United Kingdom

July 31, 1929

Died

April 04, 2024

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Genre

Children's Books, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Lynne Reid Banks is a British author of books for children and adults. She has written forty books, including the best-selling children's novel The Indian in the Cupboard, which has sold over 10 million copies and been made into a film.
Banks was born in London, the only child of James and Muriel Reid Banks. She was evacuated to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada during World War II but returned after the war was over. She attended St Teresa's School in Surrey. Prior to becoming a writer Banks was an actress, and also worked as a television journalist in Britain, one of the first women to do so. Her first novel, The L-Shaped Room, was published in 1960.
In 1962 Banks emigrated to Israel, where she taught for eight years on an Israeli kibbutz Yas ...more

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	The Indian in the Cupboard (The Indian in the Cupboard, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 108,196 ratings — published 1980 — 113 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Return of the Indian (The Indian in the Cupboard, #2) 3.86 avg rating — 12,940 ratings — published 1986 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret of the Indian (The Indian in the Cupboard, #3) 3.84 avg rating — 9,555 ratings — published 1989 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mystery of the Cupboard (The Indian in the Cupboard, #4) by Lynne Reid Banks, Tom Newsom (Illustrator) 3.85 avg rating — 5,816 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The L-Shaped Room (Jane Graham, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 3,515 ratings — published 1960 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fairy Rebel 4.10 avg rating — 2,967 ratings — published 1985 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Farthest-Away Mountain by Lynne Reid Banks, Victor G. Ambrus (Illustrator), Ambers Ambrus (Illustrator) 4.24 avg rating — 2,594 ratings — published 1976 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Key to the Indian (The Indian in the Cupboard, #5) by Lynne Reid Banks, James Watling (Illustrator) 3.77 avg rating — 2,831 ratings — published 1998 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tiger, Tiger 3.86 avg rating — 1,658 ratings — published 2004 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Indian In The Cupboard Trilogy 4.09 avg rating — 1,374 ratings — published 1980 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Indian in the Cupboard (5 books)
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Jane Graham (3 books)
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Bronte Biographies (2 books)
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One More River (2 books)
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Harry the Poisonous Centipede (3 books)
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“The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing...”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Secret of the Indian

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“Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The Secret of the Indian

tags: men

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“The Spring can be more painful than any other time of the year. Summer is lazy and indifferent. Autumn is demanding and invigorating. Winter is numb and self-contained, but Spring has none of the palliatives. Every emotional nerve is close to the surface. Every sound and sight, every touch of the air is a summons to feel, to open your doors, to let life possess you and do what it likes with you.”
― Lynne Reid Banks, The L-Shaped Room

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