Michelle Houts is the award-winning author of several middle-grade novels, picture books, and biographies for young readers including "Winterfrost," a 2014 Bank Street Best Book and Junior Library Guild selection, and "The Beef Princess of Practical County," which was awarded the 2010 IRA Children s Book Award. She lives, works, and plays on a farm in western Ohio, where she is restoring a one-room schoolhouse. While in second grade, she begged her parents for a chemistry kit, but wasn t quite sure what to do when she actually got it. Lucy s Lab allows her to be the scientist she always wanted to be."