2023 Author in Schools Author

Susan Hood is the award-winning author of more than 200 books for young readers, including Alias Anna, Lifeboat 12, Ada’s Violin, The Last Straw: Kids vs. Plastics, Shaking Things Up, and Titan and the Wild Boars. She is the recipient of an E.B. White Read Aloud Picture Book Honor, the Christopher Award, the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, the Golden Kite Award, and the Bank Street Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, given annually for a “distinguished work of nonfiction.” Her third middle grade book, Harboring Hope, will be published by HarperCollins in March 2023.