Wendy Mass (Author) Wendy Mass is the author of eleven novels for young people (which have been translated into 13 languages and nominated for 46 USA state book awards), including A Mango-Shaped Space (which was awarded the Schneider Family Book Award by the American Library Association), Leap Day , the Twice Upon a Time fairy tale series, Every Soul a Star , 11 Birthdays, Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall , Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, and Finally. Her most recent book is The Candymakers . Wendy wrote the storyline for an episode of the television show Monk , entitled 'Mr. Monk Goes to the Theatre,' which aired during the show's second season. She tells people her hobbies are hiking and photography, but really they're collecting candy bar wrappers and searching for buried treasure with her metal detector. She lives with her family in New Jersey. Rebecca Stead (Author) Rebecca Stead is author of When You Reach Me , Liar & Spy , First Light , Goodbye Stranger , Bob , The List of Things that Will Not Change , and The Lost Library . Her books have been awarded the Newbery Medal, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Fiction and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.

Rebecca lives in New York.