Barthe DeClements

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1. Beverly Cleary

   Author of Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Dear Mr. Henshaw, Ramona and Her Father

2. Ann M. Martin

   Author of Kristy and the Snobs, Hello, Mallory, Welcome Back, Stacey

3. Judy Blume

   Author of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Freckle Juice, Double Fudge

4. Barthe DeClements

   Author of Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade, The Fourth Grade Wizards, How Do You Lose Those Ninth Grade Blues?

5. Betsy Byars

   Author of The Summer of the Swans, THE PINBALLS, The TV Kid

6. Louis Sachar

   Author of There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes

7. Paula Danziger

   Author of The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Amber Brown Goes Fourth, Amber Brown Sees Red

8. Johanna Hurwitz

   Author of Class Clown, Class President (An Apple Paperback), Aldo Applesauce

9. Jerry Spinelli

   Author of The Library Card, Fourth Grade Rats (Apple Paperbacks), Report To The Principal's Office! (School Daze Series)

10. Christopher Pike

    Author of Weekend, Spellbound, Gimme a Kiss

11. Lynne Reid Banks

    Author of The Return of the Indian, The Secret of the Indian

12. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Author of The Agony of Alice, Outrageously Alice, Patiently Alice

13. Matt Christopher

    Author of Return of the Home Run Kid, Tough to Tackle, Catcher with a Glass Arm

14. Virginia Hamilton

    Author of M. C. Higgins, the Great, Cousins

15. Katherine Paterson

    Author of The Great Gilly Hopkins, Jip: His Story, Park's Quest

16. Lois Lowry

    Author of Anastasia Krupnik, Anastasia has the Answers, Attaboy, Sam!

17. Gary Paulsen

    Author of Woodsong, The Night the White Deer Died, The Schernoff Discoveries

18. Pam Conrad

    Author of Pedro's Journal, Stonewords: A Ghost Story (Harper Trophy Books), My Daniel

19. Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna

    Author of Fourth Grade Is A Jinx (An Apple Paperback), Good Grief ... Third Grade

20. Mildred D. Taylor

    Author of Mississippi Bridge, The Friendship, The Friendship/The Gold Cadillac