Kate Messner is the author of The Seventh Wish; All the Answers;
The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z., winner of the E. B. White Read
Aloud Award for Older Readers; Capture the Flag, an SCBWI Crystal
Kite Award winner; Hide and Seek; Manhunt; and the Ranger in Time
and Marty McGuire chapter book series. A former middle-school
English teacher, Kate lives on Lake Champlain with her family and
loves reading, walking in the woods, and traveling. Visit her
online at katemessner.com.
Brian Floca is the author and illustrator of the Caldecott
Medal-winning book Locomotive. He also wrote and illustrated
Lightship and Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, both Sibert Honor
Books, and illustrated Avi's Poppy Stories series as well as Jan
Greenberg and Sandra Jordan's Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian
Spring, also a Sibert Honor Book. Brian grew up in Texas and now
lives in Brooklyn, New York. Find him online at www.brianfloca.com.
Praise for MARTY MCGUIRE: "Messner gets all the details of third grade right [and] Floca's black-and-white sketches are filled with movement and emotion...Believable and endearing characters in a realistic elementary-school setting will be just the thing for fans of Clementine and Ramona."--KIRKUS
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