They came home from elementary school one day with a letter announcing that the arts curriculum was being cut due to budget problems. Launched in 2001, the middle-grade series has one million copies in print, including the 100,000-copy first printing set for Island of Graves.Īn incident involving McMann’s own children – son Kilian, now 21, and daughter Kennedy, now 18 – jumpstarted the series. This unsettling tradition pits Unwanted Alex against his Wanted twin brother, Aaron.
The Unwanteds is set in totalitarian Quill, where creativity is a crime and 13-year-olds are sorted into two groups: the “strong” Wanteds go to university, and the artistic Unwanteds are exiled to an alleged “death camp” that is actually a world called Artimé, where they learn to use their talents magically. And readers who are reluctant to bid adieu to the Unwanteds world will be pleased to learn that McMann is writing a spinoff series, The Unwanteds Quests, scheduled to kick off in spring 2017, with book two following a year later. At the end of Island of Graves, the sixth volume in the dystopian fantasy series, which Aladdin will publish on September 15, they’ll get an early peek at the cover and title of the seventh and final Unwanteds novel, due out in April 2016. Compact Disc (February 9th, 2010): $19.Fans of Lisa McMann’s The Unwanteds series have several treats in store.Young Adult Fiction / Romance / Paranormal.Young Adult Fiction / Paranormal, Occult & Supernatural.Young Adult Fiction / Thrillers & Suspense.Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Check out Lisa's website at, learn more about The Unwanteds Series at, and be sure to say hi on Instagram or Twitter or Facebook (/McMannFan). Some of her most well-known books are The Unwanteds series for middle grade readers and the Wake trilogy for young adults. So far she has written in genres including paranormal, realistic, dystopian, and fantasy. Her son is an artist named Kilian McMann and her daughter is an actor, Kennedy McMann. Lisa is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen books for young adults and children. She is married to fellow writer and musician, Matt McMann, and they have two adult children.
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