About Anne E. Schraff
Anne Schraff, the author of five books in the Bluford Series, is a full-time writer. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and earned a B.A. and M.A. from California State University, Northridge. Schraff taught high school from 1967 to 1977 at the Academy of Our Lady of Peace, San Diego, California.
As a child, Schraff traveled widely in the United States with her mother, brother, and grandmother. (Her father died when she was three.) They made their journeys in a camping trailer and had many wild adventures. Schraff frequently draws from those rich experiences when she creates her stories.
As a teenager, Schraff held a variety of jobs. She began as a papergirl, delivering a hundred Los Angeles Times every morning at four o’clock. She later became a waitress and a shrimp boat worker. Another job as a boysenberry picker taught Schraff sympathy for migrant workers.
But Schraff always wanted to be a writer and sold her first story, “Stage to Hell,” to a western magazine while she was a college freshman. She pretended to be a male by signing the story A. E. Schraff. The editor didn’t know the truth until he’d bought a dozen of her stories. Since then she has sold hundreds of stories and more than eighty books including historical fiction, biographies, scien
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| A Matter of Trust (Bluford High, #2)
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4.31 avg rating — 4,489 ratings — published 2002 — 19 editions |
| Lost and Found (Bluford High, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 4,259 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions |
| Until We Meet Again (Bluford High, #7)
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4.43 avg rating — 4,008 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions |
| Secrets in the Shadows (Bluford High, #3)
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4.37 avg rating — 3,887 ratings — published 2002 — 22 editions |
| Someone to Love Me (Bluford High, #4)
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4.35 avg rating — 3,374 ratings — published 2002 — 17 editions |
| A Boy Called Twister-Urban Underground
4.27 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions |
| If You Really Loved Me
4.35 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions |
| Outrunning the Darkness (Urban Underground #1)
4.04 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions |
| Dear Mr. Kilmer
3.93 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions |
| Please Don't Ask Me to Love You
4.42 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 1987 — 10 editions |