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David Almond
Author of The Fire-Eaters, Kit's Wilderness, and Heaven Eyes.

Lori Halse Anderson
Author of: Speak, Fever 1793, and Catalyst

T.A. Barron
Author of: The Lost Years of Merlin series

Joan Bauer
Author of: Hope Was Here, Rules of the Road, and Squashed

Francesca Lia Block
Author of: Weetzie Bat, Girl Godess #9, and I Was a Teenage Fairy

Ann Brashares
Author of: Sisterhood of Traveling Pants and Second Summer of the Sisterhood

Libba Bray
Author of: A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels

Meg Cabot
Author of: All American Girl, The Princess Diaries, & Teen Idol

Orson Scott Card
Author of: Enders Game, Enders Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead

Rachel Cohn
Author of: Gingerbread, The Steps, Pop Princess, and Shrimp

Caroline B. Cooney
Author of: The Face on the Milk Carton, Both Sides of Time, and Burning Up

Sharon Creech
Author of: Absolutely Normal Chaos, Chasing Redbird, and Walk Two Moons

Chris Crutcher
Author of: Ironman, Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes, and Athletic Shorts

Sarah Dessen
Author of: This Lullaby, The Truth about Forever, and Someone Like You

Lois Duncan
Author of:I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Killing Mr. Griffin

Sharon G. Flake
Author of: Begging for Change, The Skin I'm In, and Who Am I Without Him

Shannon Hale
Author of: The Goose Girl, Enna Burning, and Princess Academy

Cathy Hopkins
Author of Mates, Dates series

Anthony Horowitz
Author of: The Alex Rider books, The Devil and His Boy, and Raven's Gate

Maureen Johnson
Author of: 13 Little Blue Envelopes and The Key to the Golden Firebird

Iain Lawrence
Author of: B for Buster, The Convicts, and The Lord of the Nutcracker Men

Lois Lowry
Author of: Anastasia Absolutely, The Giver, and Number the Stars

Carolyn Mackler
Author of: Vegan, Virgin Valentine and The Earth, My Butt, & Other Big Round Things

Walter Dean Myers
Author of: Monster, Falling Angels, and Hoops

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Author of: Shiloh , Alice In-Between, and The Girls Get Even

Garth Nix
Author of: Sabriel, Lirael, Mister Monday, and Grim Tuesday

Kenneth Oppel
Author of Airborn and Skybreaker

Christopher Paolini
Author of: Eragon and Eldest

Gary Paulsen
Author of: Hatchet, The Rifle, and Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered 

Philip Pullman
Author of: The Golden Compass, and The Subtle Knife

Meg Rosoff
Author of How I Live Now and Just In Case

J.K. Rowling
Author of: the Harry Potter series

Darren Shan
Author of: Cirque du Freak series

Sonya Sones
Author of: What My Mother Doesn't Know and Sixteen

William Sleator
Author of: The Boy Who Couldn't Die, Rewind, and Boltzman!

Jerry Spinelli
Author of: Crash, Maniac Magee, and Wringer

J.R.R. Tolkien
Author of: The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings

Jane Yolen
Author of: Armageddon Summer, Merlin, and The Devil's Arithmetic

Scott Westerfeld
Author of: Midnighters and Uglies

Ellen Wittlinger
Author of: Hard Love, Heart on My Sleeve, and ZigZag

Chris Wooding
Author of: The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray & Poison

Jacqueline Woodson
Author of: If You Come Softly, Behind You, and Miracle's Boys

Marcus Zusak
Author of: I am the Messenger & Fighting Ruben Wolfe