Middle Grade & Children’s Authors

 

 
  • Annie Barrows

    Agent: Liza Dawson

    Annie Barrows’ children’s books include STELLA & MARIGOLD (Chronicle), the IVY AND BEAN series (Chronicle)–which has sold more than one million copies and has been adapted into three Netflix films, and her middle grade series BEST OF IGGY (Putnam). She also has two forthcoming picture books from Holiday House.

  • Sage Blackwood

    Agent: Caitlin Blasdell

    Author of the JINX trilogy, the first of which garnered a rare four stars sweep of Booklist, PW, School Library Journal, and Kirkus (HarperCollins).

  • Angela Cerrito

    Agent: Caitlin Blasdell

    Angela Cerrito’s THE SAFEST LIE, the powerful story of a Jewish girl smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a Guardian’s Best Children’s Book of the Year.

  • Lindsay Eyre writes hilarious early-reader chapter books about best friends, kidnapped ferrets, and younger twin brothers. Booklist says to put her Scholastic series on the shelf with Junie B. Jones and Clementine. (CB)

    Lindsay Eyre

    Agent: Caitlin Blasdell

    Lindsay Eyre writes hilarious early-reader chapter books about best friends, kidnapped ferrets, and younger twin brothers.


  • Joel Ross

    Agent: Caitlin Blasdell

    Joel Ross’s debut adventure novel for middle grade, THE FOG DIVER (HarperCollins), was a Texas Bluebonnet selection with “a fresh approach, reminiscent of Dickens,” according to Kirkus (starred review).

  • Karen Schwabach

    Agent: Caitlin Blasdell

    The author of acclaimed historical fiction for young readers, including THE HOPE CHEST (Random House Books for Young Readers), a novel about the American women’s suffragette movement that has sold half a million copies.

  • Jennifer Stinson

    Agent: Liza Dawson

    Author of the delightful picture book EVEN FAIRIES FART (Katherine Tegen) that addresses the embarrassing things we all do and THE INAPPROPRIATE BABY BOOK: Gross and Embarrassing Memories from Baby’s First Year (Andrews McMeel).