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Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Elizabeth Scott is the author of Bloom, Perfect You, and Stealing Heaven.
Children & Young Adults
Tree Girl by Ben Mikaelson
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Ben Mikaelsen has won the International Reading Association Award and the Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award. His novels have earned critical acclaim, as well as several state reader#146;s choice awards. These novels include Red Midnight, Touching Spirit Bear, Rescue Josh McGuire, Sparrow Hawk Red, Stranded, Countdown, and Petey. Ben's articles and photos appear in numerous magazines around the world. He has traveled many times to Central America and has previously written about the effects of its brutal wars on young people and children. Ben lives in a log cabin near Bozeman, Montana, with a 700-pound black bear he has adopted and raised.
Red Glass by Laura Resau
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Laura Resau lived in the Mixtec region of Oaxaca, Mexico, for two years as an English teacher and anthropologist. She now lives with her husband and her dog in Colorado.
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Gayle Forman is an award-winning author and journalist whose articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Francisco Stork studied Latin American literature at Harvard before completing a law degree at Columbia University. Publishers Weekly praised his first novel The Way of the Jaguar, as “a splendidly intense debut.” His second book, Behind the Eyes, was selected as both a Commended title for the Americas Award and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age.
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Gary Paulsen is the distinguished author of many critically acclaimed books for young people, including three Newbery Honor Books: The Winter Room, Hatchet, and Dogsong. His novel The Haymeadow received the Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award. Gary Paulsen has also published fiction and nonfiction for adults, as well as picture books illustrated by his wife, the painter Ruth Wright Paulsen. The Paulsens live in New Mexico, in Alaska, and on the Pacific Ocean.
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Colson Whitehead was born in New York City. His first novel, The Intuitionist, won the QPB New Voices Award and was an Ernest Hemingway/PEN Award finalist. His second novel, John Henry Days, was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. He is also the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award. Whitehead lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Reality Check by Peter Abrahams
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Peter Abrahams is the bestselling author of Delusion, Nerve Damage, End of Story, Oblivion, The Fan, Behind the Curtain, and Into the Dark as well as Lights Out and Down the Rabbit Hole, for both of which he received Edgar Award nominations. Peter makes his home in Falmouth, Massachusetts, with his wife and four children.
Faith, Hope and Ivy June by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is the author of more than 100 books. She lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Daniel X by James Patterson
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
James Patterson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many books, including the blockbuster series Maximum Ride. More than 160 million of his books are in print around the world, making him one of the top-selling writers of all time. His website, www.ReadKiddoRead.com, lists the very best books for kids--titles that kids will gobble up and ask for more.