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Susan Lynn Meyer is the author of two previous middle-grade novels—Black Radishes and Skating with the Statue of Liberty—as well as three picture books. Her works have won the Jane Addams Peace Association Award, the New York State Charlotte Award, and the Sydney Taylor Honor Award, among many others. She is Professor of English at Wellesley College.