Valerie W. Wesley
Valerie Wilson Wesley is the author of the novels , winner of the 2000 Best Fiction Award of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, as well as the nationally bestselling Tamara Hayle mystery series. A contributing editor ... [... more]
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Carolyn Coman
Carolyn Coman is the author of Tell Me Everything, What Jamie Saw, and Bee and Jacky. What Jamie Saw received a 1996 John Newbery Honor Award from the American Library Association and was also named a National Book Award Finalist. She has two ... [... more]
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Christopher Santoro
Christopher Santoro has been illustrating children's books for more than twenty-five years. His work has been honored by the Society of Illustrators, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the American Library Association, and The New Yorker. He ... [... more]
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Brenda Peterson
Brenda Peterson is the author of three novels and another collection of essays, Living by Water, chosen one of the best books of the year by the American Library Association. She lives on Puget Sound in Seattle. After the success of Living by ... [... more]
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Budge Wilson
is the author of the acclaimed book The Leaving, a short story collection chosen by the American Library Association as one of the 75 Best Children's Books of the last 25 years, winner of the American Library Association award for Best Book for ... [... more]
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Gloria Miklowitz
Gloria D. Miklowitz's books have received several honors from the American Library Association as well as other awards and honors. As a child, Gloria D. Miklowitz was an avid reader. She also entertained her friends with her own stories and ... [... more]
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Jennifer Armstrong
Jennifer Armstrong is the winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World. Many of her books have been designated as Notable Books by the American Library Association and the International ... [... more]
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Leah Hager Cohen
Leah Hager Cohen is the author of Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and chosen by the American Library Association as one of the best books of 1994; and a novel, Heat Lightning. She lives outside of ... [... more]
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Robert Cormier
Robert Cormier is a Margaret A. Edwards Award winner, and his books repeatedly appear on the best books lists of the American Library Association, The New York Times, and School Library Journal. Robert Cormier (pronounced kor-MEER) lived all his ... [... more]
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has written more than 100 books. Her work has been honored by the American Library Association, the International Reading Association, and the Children's Book Council. Play ball! That's what the sixth-grade Buckman Badgers ... [... more]
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Betsy Byars
Betsy Byars is a Newbery Medal winner and a National Book Award winner. Her books have appeared on the best books lists of the American Library Association, School Library Journal, and American Bookseller, among others. When she was a young girl ... [... more]
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April Sinclair
April Sinclair's debut novel, Coffee Will Make You Black, was named Book of the Year (Young Adult Fiction) for 1994 by the American Library Association and received the Carl Sandburg Award from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. A Chicago ... [... more]
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