Stephanie S. Tolan is the author of more than twenty-five books for young readers, including Listen! , which won the Christopher Award and the Henry Bergh ASPCA Award. Her New York Times bestselling novel Surviving the Applewhites received a Newbery Honor and was named a Smithsonian Notable Children’ s Book, a School Library Journal Best Book for Children, an ALA Booklist Editor’ s Choice, an American Library Association Notable Children’ s Book, and an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults. Tolan has left her home by the small lake in a big woods of North Carolina and now lives in the Hudson River Valley of upstate New York with a view of the Catskills Mountains and the prospect of wintertime cross country skiing. You can visit her online at www. stephanietolan. com.
