Kate Messner Reviews

Kate Messner is passionately writes and curious novels for children who wonder, also. She's more than two dozen books for young readers' award-winning author. Her first novel, THE BRILLIANT FALL OF GIANNA Z, won the 2010 E.B. White Read-Aloud Medal for Older Readers, while its follow-up, SUGAR AND ICE (Walker/Bloomsbury, 2010), was a Junior Library Guild selection. Kate Bloomsbury titles include science thrillers EYE OF THE STORM and WAKE UP MISSING and 2 novels with a twist of magical, ALL THE ANSWERS and THE SEVENTH WISH. Kate is the Jaguar Society puzzles with Scholastic, along with the writer of the most famous Ranger at Time adventure chapter book collection, the Marty McGuire books. Her pictures novels with Chronicle include HOW TO READ A STORY, UP IN THE GARDEN AND DOWN IN THE DIRT, and OVER AND UNDER THE SNOW, an E.B. White Read Aloud Honor Book, SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner, along with NY Times and ALSC Notable novel.

Kate is a former middle school English teacher who also writes professional growth books for teachers, including REAL REVISION: AUTHORS' STRATEGIES TO SHARE WITH STUDENT WRITERS along with 59 REASONS TO WRITE. Kate resides on Lake Champlain with her loved ones, where she likes swimming in the summer spending time outside biking, trekking, biking and skiing in the winter. Needless to say, she also enjoys curling up with a great book any day of the entire year. Follow her on Twitter @KateMessner and find out more at her website: http://www.katemessner.com.

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