Susan Hood is the award-win­ning author of many books for young read­ers, includ­ing Ada’s Vio­lin; Shak­ing Things Up; Titan and the Wild Boars: The True Cave Res­cue of the Thai Soc­cer Team; and Lifeboat 12. She is the recip­i­ent of an E. B. White Read Aloud Pic­ture Book Hon­or, the Christo­pher Award, the Améri­c­as Award for Children’s and Young Adult Lit­er­a­ture, the Gold­en Kite Award, and the Bank Street Flo­ra Stieglitz Straus Award, giv­en annu­al­ly for ​“a dis­tin­guished work of non­fic­tion that serves as an inspi­ra­tion to young peo­ple.” Vis­it her at www​.susan​hood​books​.com.