Susan Hood

Susan Hood is the award-winning author of many books for young readers, including Alias Anna, Lifeboat 12, Ada?s Violin, Brothers in Arms, 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 Am?ricas 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.?