Claire Legrand

Claire Legrand is an American writer of children's and young adult literature, including novels and short stories. She is most known for her young-adult fantasy novel, Winterspell, published by Simon & Schuster in August 2014.

Legrand is from Texas but now resides in central New Jersey.

Middle grade novels

• The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 28 Aug 2012; illustrated by Sarah Watts)
• The Year of Shadows (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 27 Aug 2013)
• Some Kind of Happiness (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 17 May 2016)
• Foxheart (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 4 Oct 2016; illustrated by Jaime Zollars)

Young adult novels

Winterspell series:

• Winterspell (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 30 Sep 2014)
• Summerfall (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 26 Aug 2014) — Winterspell prequel novella
• Homecoming (available only as a free e-book download from Legrand's website, 29 Dec 2014) — Winterspell epilogue

Other

• The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister (Greenwillow Books, 27 May 2014) — a book of short stories by Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Emma Trevayne, and Legrand; illustrated by Alexander Jansson
• Guys Read: Terrifying Tales (Walden Pond Press, 1 Sep 2015) — a book of short stories by Kelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adam Gidwitz, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown, Nikki Loftin, Daniel José Older, Dav Pilkey, R.L. Stine, Rita Williams-Garcia and Legrand; edited by Jon Scieszka
• Been There, Done That: Writing Stories from Real Life (Grosset & Dunlap, 3 Nov 2015) — a diverse collection of short stoies by Gary D. Schmidt, Linda Sue Park, Grace Lin, Matthew J. Kirby, Adam Rex, Jane Yolen, Heidi Y. Stemple, Rita Williams-Garcia, Karen Cushman, Caroline Starr Rose, Lisa Yee, Nathan Hale, Julia Alvarez, Kate Messner, Margarita Engle, Alan Lawrence Sitomer, Tracy Edward Wymer, Dee Garretson and Legrand; edited by Mike Winchell, illustrated by Eglantine Ceulemans