incredibly vague question...if you can answer it you're the best
 

I need the name of an author. It was an author my cousin used to read, but I can't ask him. I'm 75% sure the author is a female, I also think that her name she used was more than simply a first an last name...it could have been first-middle-last, or maybe initials (eg CS Lewis)...but for some reason I remembered it not just being first-last. She wrote mysteries aimed at elementary schoolers. They were fairly popular, and there were more than one, I think they were a series, but not one of the famous ones like Boxcar Children, Hardyboys, Babysitters club, etc. If I had to guess, I would say the publication date would be around 96-97 or earlier. I doubt if I'll even get a response, but it's worth a try. Thanks if you put any thought into this.

(I'm also posting this in the reading section)

I actually know what you're talking about and I can't remember her name for the life of me. It's a female author that writes novels and uses her initials to disguise her real name. It's gonna bug the hell out of me until I remember. :( For some reason 8th grade comes up in my mind when I think about the author...right around 1997.

-Lasereth

Was it Judy Blume? nooo... nevermind.

Just going off of Amazon.com filters, here are couple possibilities..

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - bessledorf series
Marjorie Weinman Sharmat - Nate the Great

It wasn't the Goosebumps series by RL Stine, was it? http://www.scholastic.com/goosebumps/

If it's aimed at elementary school kids perhaps check out the Scholastic.com website and see if you get any ideas there.

You might try http://www.ask-a-librarian.org.uk/aboutask.html or do a Google search using "ask a librarian" and pick a US one. I have found them extremely helpful, even with a vague description such as yours. A wonderful resource.

Have you thought about going to a library and looking in the kids mystery section to see if any books looks familiar?

Mary Pope Osborne and "The Magic Treehouse" books??

It does sound familiar. Too bad none of my old scholastic books have an ad page with other books.

Maybe Something Queer?

K.A. Applegate? http://www.scholastic.com/kaapplegate/index.htm

I'm thinking R.L. Stine as well. Those books were extremely popular in the mid-late 90s. My brother owned them all.

:D are we missing the obvious JK Rowling?

naw not so far...she was no where near as popular as rowling or stine. thanks for the help.

I know that my favorite books when I was younger was the Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald J. Sobol ... but he's a guy.

Do you happen to know any more specifics about what type of books (ie: content) that was written about?