All-Star Authors for Middle School and Up

Laurie Halse Anderson

M.T. Anderson

Avi

Lynne Reid Banks

T. A. Barron

Joan Bauer

Joseph Bruchac

Betsy Byars

Meg Cabot

Gennifer Choldenko

Andrew Clements

Audrey Couloumbis

Bruce Coville

Sharon Creech

Chris Crutcher

Kate DiCamillo

Lois Duncan

Jack Gantos

Jean Craighead George

Dan Gutman

Virginia Hamilton

Kevin Henkes

S.E. Hinton

Will Hobbs

Erin Hunter

Brian Jacques

Diana Wynne Jones

Peg Kehret

Gordon Korman

Kathryn Lasky

Iain Lawrence

Gail Carson Levine

Lois Lowry

Anne McCaffrey

Robin McKinley

Carolyn Meyer

Stephenie Meyer

Donna Jo Napoli

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Garth Nix

Linda Sue Park

Christopher Paolini

Katherine Paterson

Gary Paulsen

Tamora Pierce

Wilson Rawls

J. K. Rowling

Louis Sachar

Neal Shusterman

Lemony Snicket

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Gary Soto

Jerry Spinelli

Suzanne Fisher Staples

Mildred D. Taylor

Megan Whalen Turner

Vivian Vande Velde

Nancy Werlin

Ellen Wittlinger

Jane Yolen

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