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Diane McKinney-Whetstone

The author of the critically acclaimed novels Tumbling, Tempest Rising, Blues Dancing, and Leaving Cecil Street, Diane
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Kathleen Odean has been a children's librarian for seventeen years in schools and public libraries. She is chair of the
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Susan Jeffers is one of only a few illustrators to have been on the adult New York Times bestseller list. She has won
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Johanna Hurwitz is the award-winning author of more than sixty popular books for young readers, including Faraway
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Valerie Wilson Wesley is the author of the novels , winner of the 2000 Best Fiction Award of the Black Caucus of the
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M. E. Kerr is a winner of the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement and the
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Christopher Santoro has been illustrating children's books for more than twenty-five years. His work has been honored
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April Sinclair's debut novel, Coffee Will Make You Black, was named Book of the Year (Young Adult Fiction) for 1994 by
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has written more than 100 books. Her work has been honored by the American Library Association,
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Betsy Byars is a Newbery Medal winner and a National Book Award winner. Her books have appeared on the best books lists
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S. E. Hinton is the recipient of the American Library Association's first annual Margaret A. Edwards Award, which
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Carolyn Coman is the author of Tell Me Everything, What Jamie Saw, and Bee and Jacky. What Jamie Saw received a 1996
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Will Hobbs is the award-winning author of more than fifteen novels for young readers, including Jason's Gold, Wild Man
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Brenda Peterson is the author of three novels and another collection of essays, Living by Water, chosen one of the best
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Gloria D. Miklowitz's books have received several honors from the American Library Association as well as other awards
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