Learn more about the authors who create the middle-grade books we’ve come to know and love with Cracking the Cover’s in-depth interviews.
Mira Bartók’s The Wonderling is set in a slightly steampunk Victorian land that borders between Dickensian realism and fairytale magic.
Shelley Johannes’ Beatrice Zinker Upside Down Thinker is an illustrated chapter book about a third-grader who sees the world differently.
“I think teaching has given me a heightened sense of empathy,” says Karen English, author of the middle-grade novel It all Comes Down to This.
Annie Parnell is revisiting the world Betty MacDonald created in a new series, Missy Piggle-Wiggle, and she’s joined forces with Ann M. Martin to do it.
Survival expert Terry Lynn Johnson pulls from her own experiences when she writes, including in her new middle-grade series, Survivor Diaries.
Fiction author/agent Ammi-Joan Paquette turned to client Laurie Ann Thompson to help her create a book about crazy-but-true stories — Two Truths and a Lie.
Since 2002, E.D. Baker has written a total of nine Tales of the Frog Princess books, the most recent, The Frog Princess Returns, released June 6.
“Dragons and chocolate are two of my favorite things in the world,” says Stephanie Burgis who wrote Dragon with a Chocolate Heart as a treat for herself.
Before Adrienne Kress could write, her father would write stories for her. Now, the author of The Explorers: The Door in the Alley writes them down herself.
Melissa Savage’s middle-grade novel, Lemons, focuses on healing through the gifts we’ve been given and sharing beautiful memories despite a loss.