Albert Watkins Key, Jr., publishing under the name Watt Key, is an award-winning southern fiction author. He grew up and currently lives in southern Alabama with his wife and family. Watt spent much of his childhood hunting and fishing the forests of Alabama, which inspired... more

CLAUDIA MILLS lives in Boulder, Colorado, and is the author of the popular 7 x 9 = Trouble!, an ALA Notable Book. R. W. ALLEY is the illustrator of Ziggy’s Blue-Ribbon Day by Claudia Mills. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island. more

Darleen Bailey Beard is the author of The Flimflam Man, which has appeared on several state award reading lists, and Twister. She lives with her son and daughter in Norman, Oklahoma. more

Pat Hughes lives in Narberth, Pennsylvania. A former copy editor, Pat has been praised for her “accurate detailing of the events and moods of a tumultuous time” (Publishers Weekly) in her first book, Guerrilla Season. more

WILLIAM LOIZEAUX is the author of Wings, winner of an ASPCA Henry Bergh Award and a Golden Kite Honor Book for Fiction. He lives in Hyattsville, Maryland. ANNE WILSDORF has illustrated many books, including Two Sticks by Orel Protopopescu, selected as a Best Children’s Book... more

Phillip Hoose is an award-winning author of books, essays, stories, songs and articles. Although he first wrote for adults, he turned his attention to children and young adults in part to keep up with his own daughters. Claudette Colvin won a National Book Award and was... more

Bodil Bredsdorff is a popular Danish children's book author. This is her first novel to be published in the United States. more

Bodil Bredsdorff is a popular Danish children’s book author. This is her first novel to be published in the United States. more

Cynthia DeFelice is the author of Nowhere to Call Home, The Ghost of Fossil Glen, The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker, and other popular middle-grade novels. She lives in upstate New York. more

CHRIS WOODWORTH’s debut novel, When Ratboy Lived Next Door, was hailed by School Library Journal as “an outstanding offering from a first-time author.” Her second novel, Georgie’s Moon, was selected a Best Book of Indiana–Children’s Literature. She lives in Indiana with her... more

Susan Bonners is the author of The Silver Balloon, which won the Christopher Award for Juvenile Fiction. She lives in Roslindale, Massachusetts. more

Barbara O’Connor is the author of numerous acclaimed books for children, including Me and Rupert Goody, Greetings from Nowhere and How to Steal a Dog. She has been awarded the Parents’ Choice Gold and Silver Awards, the Massachusetts Book Award, and the Dolly Gray Award,... more

Karen English has written several picture books and Strawberry Moon, her second novel. She lives in Richmond, California. more

HANNAH ROBERTS MCKINNON lives in Sherman, Connecticut, with her husband and two daughters. more

Alice Mead is the author of several novels, including the Junebug books and another story of Kosovo, Adem's Cross, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. She lives in Maine. more

Barbara O’Connor is the author of numerous acclaimed books for children, including Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia; Me and Rupert Goody; Greetings from Nowhere and How to Steal a Dog. She has been awarded the Parents’ Choice Gold and Silver Awards, the Massachusetts Book... more

Louis SacharI'm sitting in my office, which is located over the garage of my house in Austin, Texas. My dogs, Lucky and Tippy, are here with me. They are the only people allowed in my office when I'm writing. Lucky seems to understand that. He growls at my wife or my... more

Jeannine Atkins is the author of Wings and Rockets, which appeared on the ALA Amelia Bloomer Project list. She lives in western Massachusetts. Dusan Petricic lives in Toronto, Ontario. more

Barbara O’Connor is the author of numerous acclaimed books for children, including Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia; Me and Rupert Goody; and Greetings from Nowhere. She has been awarded the Parents’ Choice Gold and Silver Awards, the Massachusetts Book Award, and the... more

Jack Gantos has written books for people of all ages, from picture books and middle-grade fiction to novels for young adults and adults. His works include Hole in My Life, a memoir that won the Michael L. Printz and Robert F. Sibert Honors, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, a... more

ALICE MEAD is the author of the popular Junebug books. Shelives in Maryland. MARYANN COCCA-LEFFLER has writtenand/or illustrated many books for children. She lives inAmherst, New Hampshire. more

NICOLE RUBEL is the co-creator of Rotten Ralph and theauthor and illustrator of many more books, including Twice AsNice: What It’s Like to Be a Twin. She lives in Aurora, Oregon. more

Alice Mead is the author of many highly acclaimed novels, including Adem’s Cross, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and two prior books featuring Junebug, both NCSS-CBC Notable Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies. She lives in Maine. more

Kate Banks is the author of Walk Softly, Rachel, Friends of the Heart / Amici del Cuore, and Dillon Dillon. She is also the author of many award-winning picture books, among them Max’s Words, And If the Moon Could Talk, winner of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and The... more