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Informationen zum Autor Jon Scieszka is the National Ambassador for Children's Literature emeritus and the bestselling author of more than twenty-five books for kids, including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales , Math Curse, Robot Zot! , and the Time Warp Trio series. Jon founded Guys Read to encourage a passion for reading among young boys, with the philosophy that boys love to read most when they are reading things they love. A former elementary school teacher, Jon lives in Brooklyn with his family. For more great books, more great facts, and more about your favorite authors, head over to www.guysread.com. You'll be glad you did. Dan Santat is a #1 New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of more than one hundred titles, which include T he Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend , which won the Randolph Caldecott Medal in 2015. He is also the creator of the Disney animated hit The Replacements . Dan lives in Southern California with his wife, two kids, and various pets. You can visit him online at www.dantat.com. Gordon Korman published his first book at age fourteen and since then has written more than one hundred middle grade and teen novels. Favorites include the New York Times bestselling Ungifted , Supergifted , The Superteacher Project , The Unteachables , Pop , Notorious , Unplugged , Operation Do-Over , Slugfest , and the Masterminds series. Gordon lives with his family on Long Island, New York. You can visit him online at gordonkorman.com. Chris Rylander is the author of the Fourth Stall saga and the Epic Series of Failures trilogy, as well as Codename Zero and its sequels. A fan of baseball, statistics, and baseball statistics, he lives with his family in Chicago. You can visit him online at www.chrisrylander.com. Dan Gutman is the New York Times bestselling author of the Genius Files series; the Baseball Card Adventure series, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies around the world; and the My Weird School series, which has sold more than 36 million copies. Thanks to his many fans who voted in their classrooms, Dan has received nineteen state book awards and ninety-two state book award nominations. He lives in New York City with his wife. You can visit him online at dangutman.com. Anne Ursu is the author of the acclaimed novels The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy , The Lost Girl , Breadcrumbs , and The Real Boy , which was longlisted for the National Book Award. The recipient of a McKnight Fellowship Award in Children’s Literature, Anne lives in Minneapolis with her family and an ever-growing number of cats. Tim Green , for many years a star defensive end with the Atlanta Falcons, is a man of many talents. He's the author of such gripping books for adults as the New York Times bestselling The Dark Side of the Game and American Outrage . Tim graduated covaledictorian from Syracuse University and was a first-round draft pick. He later earned his law degree with honors, and he has also worked as an NFL commentator for FOX Sports and NPR. His first book for young readers, Football Genius , inspired in part by his players and his own kids, became a New York Times bestseller and was followed by Football Hero , Football Champ, The Big Time , and Deep Zone . He drew on his experiences playing and coaching Little League for Rivals and Pinch Hit and two more New York Times bestsellers: Baseball Great and Best of the Best . Bestselling author Jon Scieszka called Tim Green's Unstoppable , a book about a boy's...
