title: Jean Mills
text: # Jean Mills
  
  Jean Mills (born 1955) is a Canadian young adult and children's novelist, based in Guelph, Ontario. In addition to her novels and freelance writing, she has also served as a writing workshop presenter at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival and writer-in-residence at St. John's-Kilmarnock School.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Larkin on the Shore (Red Deer Press, 2019)
  * Skating Over Thin Ice (Red Deer Press, 2018)
  * Dude! (with Heather Wright) (Marden Publishing, 2014)
  * Andrew and the Babysitter (writing as Lillian Stone) (Caramel Tree, 2012)
  * Joey and the Firehall Ghost (writing as Lillian Stone) (Caramel Tree, 2012)
  * The Ugly Duckling (writing as Lillian Stone) (Caramel Tree, 2012)
  * The Toymaker's Son (Pugwash Publishers, 2009)
  * Abby and the Curling Chicks (Pugwash Publishers, 2003)
  * The Legacy (Nelson Canada, 1991)
  * Wild Dog Summer (Nelson Canada, 1990; re-issued by Pugwash Publishers, 2008)
  
  ## Reception
  
  * USBBY Outstanding International Books List -- Skating Over Thin Ice (2019)
  * Nominee for the Forest of Reading Red Maple Award -- Skating Over Thin Ice (2019)
  * Winner of the Professional Writers Association of Canada Barbara Novak Award for Memoir/Humour Writing -- "the roots of her story," published in The Globe and Mail (2009)
  