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About Courtney Sheinmel

Courtney Sheinmel (born 1977) is an American author of children's and young adult books.

Sheinmel was born June 21, 1977, in Stanford, California. She lived in the San Francisco Bay Area until age nine, at which point she moved to New York City with her mother and sister. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Barnard College in 1999, after which she received a J.D. degree from Fordham University School of Law.

Sheinmel worked as a lawyer for six years before publishing her first novel, My So-Called Family, in 2008, after which she began writing full-time. Her second novel, Positively (2009), centers a teenager living with HIV, inspired by Sheinmel's involvement with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. She has since written 5 novels for older readers (ages 12-18) and 27 for younger readers (under age 12).

Courtney Sheinmel writes about Children's fiction, Fiction, Family life, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Friendship, fiction, and Schools, fiction. Their best-known work is Zacktastic.

On FindMyTBR we track 18 books by Courtney Sheinmel, 16 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A Case of the Meanies: Stella Batts, Book 4 (Unabridged), Broken Birthday: Stella Batts, Book 10 (Unabridged), and Edgewater (Unabridged). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.