Each name below links to an author's page.  Read about the author.  Read about the books that author wrote.  Find more information about other books by that author!
 

Walter Dean Myers	Lurlene McDaniel	R.L. Stine	Madeline L'Engle
Karen Cushman	Gary Paulsen	Lois Lowry	AVI
Chris Crutcher	Katherine Paterson	Stephen King	Virginia Hamilton
Judy Blume	Terry Brooks	Joan Lowery Nixon	Caroline B. Cooney

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Authors
Avi's Home Page
Avi answers questions and talks about his books.
http://www.avi-writer.com/

Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden, Portland, OR
There are sculptures of Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ribsy in a park only a few blocks from the real Klickitat Street!
http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/kids/cleary.html

Karen Pederson's Beverly Cleary Home Page A fun page by a big fan of this famous author.
http://www.teleport.com/~krp/cleary.html

Official Brian Jacques Home Page
If you're a fan of the Redwall books, here's the site for you!
http://www.redwall.org

Animorphs Page
The home page for this popular paperback series.
http://scholastic.com/animorphs

MidLink Magazine
An electronic magazine for young people in the middle grades. http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/

Reading Links
If you like to read, this is the links page for you! Seuss! E.B. White! Roald Dahl! Reading Rainbow! Lots more!
http://metronet.lib.mi.us/CANT/YOUTH/read.html

Scoop
Almost everything about books and authors for young people.
http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/index.html

Treasure Island
The authors say that here is "absolutely everything you'd want to know" about this classic.
http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/treasure/setframe.htm