Intergenerational Children Books for Junior High and Up

Polly Horvath is the author of many children's books, including Everything on a Waffle, a Newbery Honor Book, and The Trolls, a National Book Award Finalist. She lives in Metchosin, British Columbia. more

HELEN FROST is the author of Keesha’s House, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, and, most recently, The Braid, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book. She has lived and taught in Alaska, and now lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana. more

ARANKA SIEGAL was born in Beregszász, Hungary. She is the author of the Newbery Honor Book Upon the Head of the Goat and its sequel, Grace in the Wilderness, an NCSS-CBC Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies. She lives in Williams Island, Florida. more

Uma Krishnaswami was born in New Delhi, India, and now lives in Aztec, New Mexico. She is the author of several books for children, including Monsoon. more

Colby RodowskyWhenever I try to piece together anything even slightly resembling an autobiographical sketch, I find that a lot of my remembering has to do with books: what I read (almost anything); where I read (almost anywhere); and why. Why is the key. It has, in part, to... more

Since graduating cum laude from Smith College in 1941, Madeleine L'Engle has been an actress, country storekeeper, wife, and mother. This background provided an excellent variety of materials for her writing, an activity she considers "an essential function, like sleeping... more

Martha Brooks is the author of six highly acclaimed young adult books, including Traveling On into the Light and Other Stories, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and a Hungry Mind Review Children’s Book of Distinction. She lives in Winnipeg, Canada. more

When I was a kid, I made up stories and went door-to-door selling recitations for a nickel. I found out that it’s a tough way to make a living. I ended up doing it anyway, including a twenty-year stint writing television movies. One of them, an adaptation of E. L.... more