Recommended Authors for An LS3013 Author Study

The authors are listed according to the target readership for (the majority of) their work.

Elementary

David Adler (biographies)

Eve Bunting

Paul Fleischman (also poet)

Douglas Florian (poet)

Mem Fox

Jack Gantos

Gail Gibbons (informational books)

Kevin Henkes

Lois Lowry

Pat Mora (also a poet)

Andrea Pinkney (biographies)

Jack Prelutsky (poet)

Cynthia Rylant (all ages)

Jon Scieszka

Seymour Simon (informational books)

Mo Willems (also illustrator)

Jane Yolen (all ages)

Elementary-Middle School

Avi

George Ancona (informational books)

Sharon Creech

Christopher Paul Curtis

Karen Cushman

Kate DiCamillo

Douglas Florian (poet)

Nikki Grimes (poet)

Karen Hesse

Kathleen Krull (biographies)

Kathryn Lasky (biographies)

Patricia Lauber (informational books)

Gail Carson Levine

David Macaulay (informational books)

Richard Peck

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Katherine Paterson

Pam Muñoz Ryan

Louis Sachar

Joyce Sidman (poet)

Diane Stanley (biographies)

Janet Wong (poet - all ages)

Middle School

Susan Campbell Bartoletti (informational books)

Christopher Paul Curtis

Margarita Engle

Russell Freedman (biographies)

Neil Gaiman (high school, too)

Cynthia Kadohata

Gordon Korman

Madeleine L’Engle

Jim Murphy (informational books)

Naomi Shihab Nye (also a poet)

Linda Sue Park

Gary Paulsen

Jerry Spinelli

Suzanne Fisher Staples

Gloria Whelan

High School

Laurie Halse Anderson

Suzanne Collins

Chris Crutcher

John Green

E. Lockhart

Walter Dean Myers

Marilyn Nelson (novels in verse)

Gary Soto (also poet)

Jacqueline Woodson (also middle school)

Marcus Zusak