Children and youth authors H-P presenting at 2013 Tucson Festival of Books (Video)

Below is the current presenting authors with last names beginning with H through P for the Children and Youth genre at the 2013 Tucson Festival of Books.

Margaret Peterson Haddix - Author of over 30 children's books including the Shadow Children series, the Missing series, the 10th book in the 39 Clues series, Caught, and Game Change

Joy Harjo - Author of For a Girl Becoming and The Good Luck Cat

Jessie Hartland - Author of How the Dinosaur got to the Museum and Bon Appetit: the Delicious Life of Julia Child

B.G. Hennessy - Author of The Scary Places Map Book and Corduroy Lost and Found

Daniel Hernandez - Author of They Call Me a Hero

C.J. Hill - Author of Erasing Time

Jordan Hill - Professional storyteller and wondering/wandering minstrel

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Jennifer L. Holm - Author of Our Only May Amelia, Penny from Heaven, Turtle in Paradise, and Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf

Molly Idle - Author of Flora and the Flamingos and Tea Rex

Holly Johnson - Author of Developing Critical Awareness at the Middle Level, Content Area Literature Circles: Using Discussion for Learning Across the Curriculum, and A Bone in My Flute

Maureen Kearney - Children's librarian and blogger for Confessions of a Bibliovore

A.S. King - Author of Ask the Passengers, Everybody Sees the Ants, and Please Ignore Vera Dietz

Nancy Krulik - Author of over 130 children's books includingt the Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo books

Lester Laminack - Author of The Sunsets of Miss Olivia Wiggins, Trevor’s Wiggly-Wobbly Tooth, Saturdays and Tea Cakes, and Three Hens and a Peacock

Erin Lange - Author of Butter

Anne Lee - Local storyteller and longtime member of Tucson's Tellers of Tales

Tom Leveen - Author of Party

Joanne Levy - Author of Small Medium at Large

Susan Lowell - Author of several southwest themed books including The Three Javelinas and The Tortoise and the Jackrabbit

Prisca Martens - Author of I Already Know How to Read: A Child’s View of Literacy

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Lisa McMann - Author of the paranormal Wake trilogy, the new Visions series, the dystopian fantasy series The Unwanteds, and Infinity Ring: The Trap Door

DeAnn Melton - Co-author of Miracle Maxx

Seth Muller - Author of Keepers of the Windclaw Chronicles series

S.D. Nelson - Author of Black Elk’s Vision, Gift Horse, and Buffalo Bird Girl - A Hidatsa Story

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson - Author of No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Bad News for Outlaws, Who Will I Be, Lord?, and Almost to Freedom

Jennifer A. Nielsen - Author of The Runaway King, Elliot and the Goblin War, and Elliot and the Last Underworld War

Sandy Oglesby - Storyteller

Michelle Parker-Rock - Author of the Authors Kids Love Series

Stephan Pastis - Cartoonish of "Pearls Before Swine" and upcoming book Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

Stephanie Pearmain -

Matt Phelan - Illustrator of I’ll Be There by Ann Stott, Flora’s Very Windy Day by Jeanne Birdsall, and The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

Jerry Pinkney - Illustrator of over 100 books including The Lion and the Mouse and Puss in Boots

Guy Porfirio - Author of Jump!, Junk Man's Daughter, The Legend of St. Nicholas, Grandpa's Little One, The Night Before Christmas, The Day I Could Fly, The Littlest Angel, Clear Moon, Snow Soon, Papa's Gift, and Happy Birthday America

Charline Profiri - Author of Counting Little Geckos and Guess Who's in the Desert

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