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DreamWorks

DreamWorks writes and shares stories with the world through captivating animated series and films. Their award-winning works are made for everyone to enjoy.

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Sabrina Khan is an author and an educational consultant. Born to her Pakistani mother and Bangladeshi father, Khan has lived in Bangladesh, Macao, Illinois, Texas, and now British Columba. She has a BA in political science and is passionate about…

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Grant, Michael

Michael Grant has written around 150 books (with his wife Katherine, as himself, under pseudonyms and as a ghostwriter). Born into a military family, Grant has been accommodated in fifty homes and studied at five different schools in U.S. and three…

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Cast, P.C

Phyllis Christine Cast (P.C Cast), is known for co-writing A House of Night series with her daughter Kristin Cast. She is a New York bestselling author who writes romance and fantasy novels. Cast taught high school for 15 years before retiring to…

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Cast, Kristin

Kristin Cast is a New York Times bestselling author, who is known for co-writing and editing The House of Night with her mother P.C Cast. She grew up in Oklahoma and began writing when she was only 19 years old. Kristin and her mother have written…

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Carvalho, Adams

Carvalho is an illustrator who specializes in digital art and creates prints on cotton paper.

Tags: illustrator; Latinx (illustrator); man (illustrator); unspecified sexuality (illustrator)

Singleton, Stephanie

Singleton is the cover artist for the book For All Time by Shanna Miles. She is also a freelance illustrator from Toronto, who's worked with clients such as HarperCollins and Penguin Random House.

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Ramírez, Mariana

Mariana Ramírez, who often goes by Nana, is a Mexican artist, illustrator, and animation graduate. They are non-binary and use they/them/he/him pronouns. Nana also sells their art online as keychains, stickers, clay, prints, washi tape, and more!

Tags: animator; artist; illustrator; Latinx (illustrator); LGBTQ+ (illustrator); non-binary (illustrator)

Curtis, David

David Curtis has worked in publishing, editorial, film, advertising, and animation. He is now a Design Manager for HarperCollins Children’s Books and a freelance illustrator. Some of his clients and collaborators include Paramount Pictures, NASA,…

Tags: animator; editor; illustrator; man (illustrator); white (illustrator)

Norton, Maeve

Maeve Norton is an award-winning illustrator and designer. She currently works as an Associate Art Director for middle grade and young adult novels at Scholastic and is a founding member of the artist collective Fem Foundry. Some of Norton’s clients…

Tags: author; creative designer; illustrator; white (illustrator); woman (illustrator)

Tippie, Joel

Joel Tippie is a book designer and digital artist who lives in New York City, United States. Tippie has been in the publishing industry for 15 years and primarily works on YA fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller. He was the designer for Veronica Roth's…

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Diary of a Young Naturalist

A teenager in Ireland describes his life within a year as he navigates friendships, school, and his incredible connection with nature. These diary entries follow the challenges of Dara's living with autism.

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McAnulty, Dara

Dara McAnulty is a teenage author who is on the autism disorder spectrum. His work, Diary of a Young Naturalist, won the Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing in 2020 and was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2020.

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Plague

Eight months after everyone over age fifteen disappeared, protagonist Sam Temple and the youth of Perdido Beach are alone with supernatural abilities in the FAYZ (the dome/barrier that surrounds them). Their dystopian world is filled with hunger,…

Elijah Of Buxton

The book follows Elijah Freeman, an 11 year old boy from Buxton, Ontario, a settlement of escaped slaves. After Elijah's friend is robbed of the money he was saving to buy his family out of captivity, Elijah journeys to the US in pursuit of the…

Tags: Black/African (primary character); Black/African (secondary characters); boy/man (primary character); boy/man (secondary characters); language: English; middle grade book (ages 8-12); unspecified sexuality (primary character); unspecified sexuality (secondary characters)

Daniel, Danielle

Danielle grew up in Atikameksheng Anishnawbek, also known as Sudbury, Ontario, and had an appreciation for nature from a young age. Her family's having indigenous roots to an Algonquin woman further influences her appreciation which is evident in her…

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Curtis, Christopher, Paul (author)

Growing up in Flint, Michigan, he began writing fiction after graduating from the University of Michigan. He has won multiple awards for his past novels although Buxton was his first set in Canada, where he now lives.

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Forever Birchwood

Wolf's and her friend's treehouse hideaway Birchwood, is threatened to be cut down, pushing Wolf to fight harder to protect the environment she cares deeply for. Her passion is fuelled when discovering her family’s indigenous connections as her great…

Tags: girl/woman (primary character); human (primary character); human (secondary characters); Indigenous (primary character); language: English; middle grade book (ages 8-12); unspecified sexuality (primary character); white, assumed (secondary characters)

Riordan, Rick

Rick Riordan began writing to create bedtime stories for his eldest son previously he was an English as well as history teacher for middle grade students. He is known for over twenty New York Times best-selling novels often exploring different…

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Akpan, Godwin

Self-taught artist, Akpan has skills in digital painting, concept art, comic art, matte painting, photoshop, and illustration. He's not only an illustrator forAmari and the Night Brothers,but he is also a contributor.

Tags: artist; Black/african (illustrator); comic artist; illustrator; man (illustrator); straight (illustrator)

Operation Sisterhood

Bo and her mother lived a quiet life before moving to her stepfather's home in Harlem. With three new sisters, pets, and a new life, she is unsure how to fit in.

Tags: Black/African (primary character); Black/African (secondary characters); girl/woman (primary character); group (characters); human (primary character); language: English; middle grade book (ages 8-12); unspecified sexuality (primary character)

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