Diane McKinney-Whetstone
The author of the critically acclaimed novels Tumbling, Tempest Rising, Blues Dancing, and Leaving Cecil Street, Diane McKinney-Whetstone is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's ... [... more]
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Kathleen Odean
Kathleen Odean has been a children's librarian for seventeen years in schools and public libraries. She is chair of the 2002 Newbery Award Committee and previously served on the Caldecott Award Committee and the American Library Associations's ... [... more]
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Susan Jeffers
Susan Jeffers is one of only a few illustrators to have been on the adult New York Times bestseller list. She has won the ABBY from the American Booksellers Association, a Caldecott Honor from the American Library Association, and the Pomme d'Or ... [... more]
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Johanna Hurwitz
Johanna Hurwitz is the award-winning author of more than sixty popular books for young readers, including Faraway Summer; Dear Emma; Elisa Michaels, Bigger & Better; Class Clown; Fourth-Grade Fuss; and Rip-Roaring Russell, an American Library ... [... more]
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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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M. E. Kerr
M. E. Kerr is a winner of the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement and the ALAN award from the National Council of Teachers of English. Ms. Kerr lives in East Hampton on New York's Long Island. [... 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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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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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. There's nothing eleven-year-old Marty Preston enjoys ... [... 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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S.E. Hinton
S. E. Hinton is the recipient of the American Library Association's first annual Margaret A. Edwards Award, which honors authors "whose books have provided young adults with a window through which they can view their world and which will help ... [... 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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