Lerangis's work includes The Viper's Nest and The Sword Thief, two titles in the New York Times bestselling children's-book series The 39 Clues, the historical novel Smiler's Bones, the Ya dark comedy-adventure novel wtf, the Drama Club series, the Spy X series, the Watchers series, the Abracadabra series, and the Antarctica two-book adventure, as well ghostwriting for series such as the Three Investigators, the Hardy Boys Casefiles, Sweet Valley Twins, and more than forty works in the series The Baby-sitters Club and its various spin-offs. He has also written stories based on movie screenplays, including The Sixth Sense, Sleepy Hollow, and Beauty and the Beast, and five video game novelizations in the Worlds of Power series produced by Seth Godin. As a ghostwriter he has been released under the name A. Singer. He contributed to the second entry in a four-novella collection, Vespers Rising, which was released in April 2011, serving as an introduction to a six-book 39 Clues sequel entitled Cahills Vs. Vespers. For this book series, he will write the third volume, to be released in March 2012.
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Lerangis is the son of a retired New York Telephone Enterprise employee and a retired public-elementary-school secretary, who brought up him in Freeport, New York on Long Island.
Peter Lerangis
