The author

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born January 4, 1933. She is best known for Shiloh, Shiloh Season and Saving Shiloh,  She is also known for her "Alice" book series.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in Anderson, Indiana.  She began writing her own stories when she was in elementary school.

When she was 16 years old, a Sunday school teacher asked her to write a story for the church magazine. Her first story called Mike’s Hero, was accepted and was published. She received $ 4.67 for her story.

Here is a list of her work:

• How I Came to Be a Writer
• Crazy Love: An Autobiographical Account of Marriage and Madness
• The Keeper
• Night Cry
• Collections
  • Grasshoppers in the Soup (1965)
  • The Galloping Goat and Other Stories (1965)
  • Knee Deep in Ice Cream (1967)
  • Dark Side of the Moon (1969)
  • The Private I, and Other Stories (1969)
  • Ships in the Night (1970)
  • Never Born a Hero (1982)
  • A Triangle Has Four Sides (1984)

• What the Gulls Were Singing

• Alice series
  • The Agony of Alice (1985)
  • Alice in Rapture, Sort of (1989)
  • Reluctantly Alice (1991)
  • All but Alice (1992)
  • Alice in April (1993)
  • Alice in-Between (1994)
  • Alice the Brave (1995)
  • Alice in Lace (1996)
  • Outrageously Alice (1997)
  • Achingly Alice (1998)
  • Alice on the Outside (1999)
  • The Grooming of Alice (2000)
  • Alice Alone (2001)
  • Simply Alice (2002)
  • Patiently Alice (2003)
  • Including Alice (2004)
  • Alice on Her Way (2005)
  • Alice in the Know (2006)
  • Dangerously Alice
  • Almost Alice
  • Intensely Alice
  • Starting With Alice (2002)
  • Alice in Blunderland (2003)
  • Lovingly Alice (2004)

• Shiloh series
  • Shiloh (1991)
  • Shiloh Season (1996)
  • Saving Shiloh (1997)

• Cat Pack series
  • The Grand Escape by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and Alan Daniel (1993)
  • The Healing of Texas Jake by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and Alan Daniel (1997)
  • Carlotta's Kittens by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and Alan Daniel (2000)
  • Polo's Mother by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and Alan Daniel (2005)

• The Boys Start the War series
  • The Boys Start the War (1992)
  • The Girls Get Even (1993)
  • Boys Against Girls (1994)
  • The Girls' Revenge (1998)
  • A Traitor Among the Boys (1999)
  • A Spy Among the Girls (2000)
  • The Boys Return (2001)
  • The Girls Take Over (2002)
  • Boys in Control (2003)
  • Girls Rule! (2004)
  • Boys Rock! (2005)
  • Who Won the War? (2006)

• Being Danny's Dog
• Danny's Desert Rats (1998)
• Ice (1995)
• Sang Spell
• Beetles, Lightly Toasted
• Walker's Crossing (1987)
• Eddie, Incorporated (1980)

• The Witch Saga series
  • Witch's Sister (1975)
  • Witch Water (1977)
  • The Witch Herself (1978)
  • The Witch's Eye (1990)
  • Witch Weed (1991)
  • The Witch Returns (1992)

• The Galloping Goat
• Jade Green: A Ghost Story (1999)
• The Year of the Gopher
• The Fear Place

• Besseldorf Mysteries
  • The Mad Gasser of Bessledorf Street (1983)
  • The Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel (1986)
  • Bernie Magruder & the Haunted Hotel (1990)
  • Bernie and the Bessledorf Ghost (1993)
  • Bernie Magruder & the Drive-Thru Funeral Parlor (1993)
  • Bernie Magruder and the Bus Station Blow-Up (1996)
  • Bernie Magruder and the Parachute Peril (1999)
  • Bernie Magruder and the Pirate's Treasure (1999)
  • Bernie Magruder and the Case of the Big Stink (2001)
  • Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry (2003)

• York Trilogy
  • Shadows on the Wall (1980)
  • Faces in the Water (1981)
  • Footprints at the Window (1981)

• Picture books
  • Meet Murdock (1969)
  • How Lazy Can You Get? (1979)
  • All Because I'm Older (1981)
  • The Boy with the Helium Head(1982)
  • Old Sadie and the Christmas Bear (1984)
  • The Baby, the Bed, and the Rose (1987)
  • Keeping a Christmas Secret (1989)
  • King of the Playground (1991)
  • Ducks Disappearing (1996)
  • I Can't Take You Anywhere! (1997)
  • Sweet Strawberries (1999)
  • Roxie and the Hooligans (2006)
  • Cuckoo Feathers (2006)
• Faith, Hope, and Ivy June