About Author
Phillip Hoose is the widely acclaimed author of the National Book Award winner Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, which is also a Newbery Honor Book, a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book, a YALSA Finalist for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction, and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. His other books include The Race to Save the Lord God Bird, winner of the Boston Globe?Horn Book Award for Nonfiction, and We Were There, Too!, a National Book Award Finalist. Mr. Hoose has worked as a conservationist for the Nature Conservancy since 1977. He lives in Maine.
