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Authors are listed alphabetically by last name. Click on each
link to see bios and pictures of the appearing authors.
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Alison
Hart
from Mt. Sidney, Virginia |
Alison Hart, a teacher and author, has written over twenty
books for children including
Anna's Blizzard (Peachtree) an IRA Teacher's
Choice and Golden Sower Award nominee. Her suspenseful
novels, Gabriel's Horses,
Gabriel's Triumph
and Gabriel's Journey
bring together the Civil War, Kentucky history and horses in
the Racing to Freedom Trilogy. All three books
are Junior Library Guild Selections.
Gabriel's Horses has been nominated for
the Texas Bluebonnet, Kentucky Bluegrass, Horned Toad Tales,
Lamplighter, Kansas State Reading Circle, Flicker Tales and
Keystone State Awards.
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Bobbie Hinman
from Bel Air, Maryland |
The Knot Fairy
is a mischievous little fairy dressed in pajamas who visits
children while they sleep and is responsible for the knots and
tangles in their hair when they awaken.
The Sock Fairy
is the tale of the playful little fairy responsible for missing
socks, mismatched socks and the occasional hole in the toe.
These books reveal less practical and more
magical explanations for these age-old mysteries. After all, who
better to blame it on than a fairy?
Recent Awards
for The Knot Fairy
▪ Finalist –
Foreword Magazine Book-of-the-Year Award – 2008
▪ Finalist -
Benjamin Franklin Book Award – 2008
▪ Independent
Publishers Award for Excellence (IPPY) – 2007
▪ Book Sense
Children’s Pick List for Summer 2007
▪ DragonPencil
Gold Medal Award for
Literature- Awarded for Superior Writing -2007
The Sock
Fairy is a new release. (Release date - June
2008)
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Woody Holton
from Richmond, Virginia |
Woody Holton is the author of
Unruly Americans and the Origins of
the Constitution (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007),
a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize and the National
Book Award. Holton, a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, has taught Early
American history at the University of Richmond since the fall of
2000. In 2000, the Organization of American Historians awarded
his first book, Forced Founders:
Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American
Revolution in Virginia, its prestigious Merle
Curti award. |
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Elizabeth
McDavid Jones
from Palmyra, Virginia |
Elizabeth McDavid Jones (“Liz”) writes
children’s historical mysteries. Her latest books are the
Felicity mysteries from American Girl:
Peril at King’s Creek, and
Traitor in Williamsburg.
A new Felicity mystery will be out in Spring 2009.
Liz also wrote five books from the
acclaimed American Girl History Mystery series: The
Night Flyers (winner of an Edgar Award),
Secrets on 26th Street,
Watcher in the Piney Woods,
Mystery on Skull Island,
and Ghost Light on Graveyard Shoal
(finalist for an Agatha Award) AND two newspaper
serial stories: Menace on Horse
Creek Trail, and The
Secret Life. Liz’ s stories and plays have
appeared in American Girl Magazine and in the minibooks American
Girl Today, as well as Highlights, Cricket, and Turtle
Magazines. |
| Patrick Jones
from Richfield, Minnesota
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In 2008, Walker / Bloomsbury published two
novels by author Patrick Jones.
Cheated (April) and
Stolen Car (October). Patrick Jones’s third teen
novel Chasing Tail Lights
was published by Walker / Bloomsbury in August 2007 and was a
finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards. His first YA novel
Things Change
(Walker, 2004) was named by the Young Adult Library Services
Association as a best book for reluctant readers, and was a
runner-up for the Teen Buckeye Book Award. His second novel
Nailed was a runner
up for the Great Lakes Book Award. In 2006, he won lifetime
achievement awards from the Catholic Library Association, and
the American Library Association.
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