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Author Information
Deborah Ellis
KEELEY: The Girl From Turtle Mountain
Deborah Ellis's first book, SEARCHING FOR X, won the Governor General's Award in 2000. Her next book, THE BREADWINNER, was shortlisted for the Red Maple Award. The sequel to that book, PARVANA'S JOURNEY, won the 2003 Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award. Ellis grew up in Paris, Ontario, and now lives in Toronto, where she works with women with psychiatric disabilities. She also reads prodigiously, writes constantly, and has never been know to back down from a dare.
Troon Harrison
 MILLIE: Ride the River
Troon Harrison has written over a dozen children's books including THE LONG WEEKEND, GOODBYE TO ATLANTIS and COURAGE TO FLY, which were selected as "Our Choice" by the Canadian Children's Book Centre; THE DREAM COLLECTOR which won the Blue Spruce Award and was a finalist in the Independent Publisher Book Award in 2000; and A BUSHEL OF LIGHT, which was selected as an Honour Book for the Geoffrey Bilson Historical Fiction Award in 2001. She lives in Lakefield, ON.
Lynne Kositsky
 RACHEL: A Mighty Big Imagining
Lynne Kositsky is the author of REBECCA'S FLAME, A QUESTION OF WILL and CANDLES, which was shortlisted for the Geoffrey Bilson Award and was an Our Choice Selection of the Canadian Children's Book Centre. She has won the E.J. Pratt Gold Medal and Award for Poetry, and the Canadian Author and Bookman Award for Poetry. RACHEL: A Mighty Big Imagining was recently selected by the International Children's Library in Munich to join their prestigious White Raven
Collection.
Julie Lawson
 EMILY: Across The James Bay Bridge
Julie Lawson is an award-winning author of books for children of all ages, including BEAR ON THE TRAIN, MIDNIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS and EMMA AND THE SILK TRAIN. She lives in Victoria.
Sharon McKay
 PENELOPE: Terror In The Harbor
Sharon McKay is an award-winning author of many books for parents and children. Her first young adult novel, CHARLIE WILCOX, was published in 1999 and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award.
Kathy Stinson
 MARIE-CLAIRE: Dark Spring
Kathy Stinson is the author of eighteen books, including RED IS BEST an IODE award-winner that has been published in nine countries; FISH SECRETS a novel for young adults that was a starred choice of the Canadian Children's Book Centre; and ONE YEAR COMMENCING.
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