Jean Craighead George (1919–2012)

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1. Jean Craighead George

   Author of My Side of the Mountain, Water Sky, How to Talk to Your Cat

2. Mary Pope Osborne

   Author of Ghost Town at Sundown, Civil War on Sunday, Day Of The Dragon-King

3. Gary Paulsen

   Author of Hatchet, Brian's Winter, Mr. Tucket
   All: (1 member)

4. Beverly Cleary

   Author of Dear Mr. Henshaw, Ramona and Her Father, Ralph S. Mouse

5. Katherine Paterson

   Author of Jacob Have I Loved, The Great Gilly Hopkins, The Master Puppeteer

6. Lynne Reid Banks

   Author of The Indian in the Cupboard, The Secret of the Indian, The Mystery of the Cupboard
   All: (1 member)

7. Elizabeth George Speare

   Author of The Witch of Blackbird Pond, The Sign of the Beaver
   All: (1 member)

8. Scott O'Dell

   Author of Island of the Blue Dolphins, Sarah Bishop (Point), Streams to the River, River to the Sea

9. Marguerite Henry

   Author of Misty of Chincoteague, Justin Morgan Had a Horse, Album of Horses

10. Patricia MacLachlan

    Author of Sarah, Plain and Tall, Caleb's Story, All the Places to Love
    All: (1 member)

11. E. L. Konigsburg

    Author of From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The View from Saturday, Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth

12. Joanna Cole

    Author of The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor, The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs, The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane

13. Betsy Byars

    Author of The Summer of the Swans, THE PINBALLS, Tornado

14. Avi

    Author of The Secret School, Midnight Magic, Ereth's Birthday

15. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Author of Shiloh, Shiloh Season, The Grand Escape

16. Jean Fritz

    Author of Homesick, George Washington's Breakfast, Around the World In a Hundred Years

17. Karen Cushman

    Author of Catherine, Called Birdy, The Midwife's Apprentice, Matilda Bone

18. Sid Fleischman

    Author of The Whipping Boy, Jim Ugly, McBroom Tells the Truth

19. Mildred D. Taylor

    Author of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mississippi Bridge, The Well

20. Paula Fox

    Author of The Slave Dancer, One-Eyed Cat, Monkey Island