Flying Lessons & Other Stories

 Kwame Alexander   is the  New York Times   Bestselling author of 25 books, including  Rebound  , the critically acclaimed prequel to the 2015 Newbery Medal-winning  The Crossover  . The recipient of the 2017 Inaugural Pat Conroy Legacy Award, Kwame lives with his family in Virginia.
 
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 Soman Chainani belives in fairy tales even more than the children of Gavaldon do. While studying at Harvard, he practically created his own `fairy tale' major and wrote his thesis on why evil women make such irresistible fairy-tale villains.
 Soman is also an acclaimed screenwriter, whose films have played at more than 150 film festivals around th

Matt de la Pena is the author of several acclaimed YA novels - Ball Don't Lie, Mexican WhiteBoy, We Were Here, and I Will Save You - and one picture book, A Nation's Hope. He teaches creative writing at NYU.

Grace Lin is the author and illustrator of Year of the Dog, as well as 7 picture books, inc.Dim Sum for Everyone. She is also the illustrator of over 8 other books. She grew up in Upstate New York and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. She lives with her husband Robert.

Meg Medina is the author of Tia Isa Wants a Car, illustrated by Claudio Munoz. The daughter of Cuban immigrants, she grew up in Queens, New York, and now lives in Richmond, Virginia. www.megmedina.com

Choctaw storyteller Tim Tingle makes his living telling stories and teaching folklore at schools, universities and festivals nationally. The Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers selected Tim as "Contemporary Storyteller of the Year" for 2001. Tim Tingle lives in Canyon Lake, Texas, near San Antonio. Artist Jeanne Rorex Bridges traces

 Jacqueline Woodson   (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and she received the 2018 Children's Literature Legacy Award. She is the 2014 National Book Award Winner for her  New York Times  bestselling memoir  BROWN GIRL DREAMING  , which was also a recipient of the Coretta Sc