Gary Blackwood
Gary Blackwood is the author of many novels for young readers, including The Year of the Hangman and The Shakespeare Stealer, an American Library Association Notable Children's Book and School Library Journal Best Book for 1998. The Just-So Woman ... [... 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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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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M. E. Kerr
M.E. Kerr is a winner of the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 2000 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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