Bookable Authors: Intermediate Grades (3 7) Social Studies
Tami Lehman-Wilzig
Tami Lehman-Wilzig is an award-winning author of sixteen Jewish content picture books, including On the Wings of Eagles, SOOSIE, The Horse That Saved Shabbat; Keeping The Promise; Nathan Blows Out the Hanukkah Candles; Passover Around the World; and Hanukkah… View →
Marcia Amidon Lusted
Marcia Amidon Lusted has written 130 books and more than 500 magazine articles for young readers. She is a freelance editor and writing instructor, as well as a musician. She lives in New Hampshire. View →
Mélina Mangal
Mélina Mangal has authored many children’s books, including the Outside Our Window board book series, The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just, Jayden’s Impossible Garden, and Jayden’s Secret Ingredient. Mélina was drawn to the Boggs’… View →
Dionna L. Mann
Dionna L. Mann is an independent researcher and children’s book author of both fiction and nonfiction. Dionna loves learning about lesser known individuals in African American history, and then sharing their stories with young readers. View →
Sandra Markle
Sandra Markle is the author of numerous award-winning books for children. A former elementary science teacher, she is a nationally-known science education consultant. Markle has received many honors for her series Animal Predators, Animal Scavengers, and Animal Prey. Several titles have… View →
Tracy Nelson Maurer
Tracy Nelson Maurer has published more than 100 titles for children and young adults, including many nonfiction books for schools and libraries. Tracy holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University and lives with her family near… View →
Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Stephanie Sammartino McPherson wrote her first children’s story in college. She enjoyed the process so much that she’s never stopped writing. A former teacher and freelance newspaper writer, she has written more than thirty books and numerous magazine stories. Her recent… View →
Mark Melnicove
Mark Melnicove is an author, teacher, and director. He is based in Maine. View →
Marie-Therese Miller
Marie-Therese Miller writes nonfiction books for children and teens. Her most recent books include Handling Depression, Crayola Our Colorful Earth: Celebrating the Natural World, It’s All Art: From Drawing to Dress-Up with Sesame Street, and A Dog’s Best Friend: A Sesame… View →
Carla Mooney
Carla Mooney is the author of several books for young readers. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her husband and three children. View →
Marissa Moss
Marissa Moss is an author-illustrator of more than eighty books, from picture books to adult graphic novels. Her books have won awards and been included in many state curricula. She lives in California. View →
Patricia J. Murphy
Patricia J. Murphy is an award-winning writer, author, and poet for children and adults. When she’s not writing, she loves to visit schools, libraries, and bookstores to inspire young readers and writers to read, to write, and to tell their stories. She often tells them, “The View →
Yevgenia Nayberg
Yevgenia Nayberg is an illustrator, painter, and set and costume designer. She received a Sydney Taylor Silver Medal for her illustrations for Drop by Drop. She lives in New York. View →
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson is the author of The Book Itch, as well as three Coretta Scott King Award-winning books: No Crystal Stair, Bad News for Outlaws, and Almost to Freedom. She is a former youth services librarian in New Mexico. Visit her online at vaundanelson.com. View →
Patricia Newman
Patricia Newman wants us all to know we are part of nature. As a Robert F. Sibert Honor recipient, she shows us how our actions ripple around the world, empowers us to find our own connections to nature, and encourages us to use our imaginations to act on behalf of our communities. Her… View →
Ngeri Nnachi
Ngeri Nnachi is a designer and author based in Maryland. She has a J.D., M.P.P.L. and is obtaining her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. View →
Harinani Orme
Harinani Orme is a Native Hawaiian artist who was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa and a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Pratt Institute in New York. Currently, her works focus on the myths, legends and… View →
Lisa L. Owens
Lisa L. Owens’s career in children’s publishing has spanned almost 25 years. She has authored more than 95 books for young people, including early readers, chapter books, graphic novels, and a wide variety of nonfiction for PreK-YA audiences. As a former in-house editor and… View →