Brian Floca is the author and illustrator of the Caldecott
Medal-winning book Locomotive. He also wrote and illustrated
Lightship and Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, both Sibert Honor
Books, and illustrated Avi's Poppy Stories series as well as Jan
Greenberg and Sandra Jordan's Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian
Spring, also a Sibert Honor Book. Brian grew up in Texas and now
lives in Brooklyn, New York. Find him online at
www.brianfloca.com.
Kate Messner is the author of The Seventh Wish; All the Answers;
The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z., winner of the E. B. White Read
Aloud Award for Older Readers; Capture the Flag, an SCBWI Crystal
Kite Award winner; Hide and Seek; Manhunt; and the Ranger in Time
and Marty McGuire chapter book series. A former middle-school
English teacher, Kate lives on Lake Champlain with her family and
loves reading, walking in the woods, and traveling. Visit her
online at katemessner.com.
Praise for MARTY MCGUIRE: "Messner gets all the details of third grade right [and] Floca's black-and-white sketches are filled with movement and emotion...Believable and endearing characters in a realistic elementary-school setting will be just the thing for fans of Clementine and Ramona."--KIRKUS
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