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Appearing in Denver
Alan Gratz is the acclaimed author of several books for young readers, including The New York Times Best Seller Refugee; Prisoner B-3087, which was named to YALSA’s 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults list; Code of Honor, a YALSA 2016 Quick Pick; Projekt 1065; and The Brooklyn Nine, which was among Booklist’s Top Ten Sports Books. Alan lives in North Carolina with his wife and daughter. Look for him online at alangratz.com.
Stephanie Harvey is passionate about literacy and has spent the past 45 years teaching and learning about reading and writing. After 15 years of public school teaching, both in regular education and special education classrooms, Steph worked
for 12 years as a sta developer for the Denver-based Public
Education and Business Coalition (PEBC), a partnership of
leaders from education and business who support innovation
in public schools. Steph currently serves as a private literacy
consultant to schools and school districts. With a focus on K-12
literacy, her specialties include comprehension instruction, inquiry-based learning, striving readers, content area reading and writing, nonfiction literacy, and the
role of passion, wonder, and engagement in teaching and learning. Steph has written or co-written many articles, books and resources including Nonfiction Matters, Strategies That Work, The Comprehension Toolkit series, Comprehension and Collaboration, Content Literacy: Lessons and Texts for both Primary and Intermediate Grades, and her newest book From Striving to Thriving. She continues to be a teacher first and foremost. Her insatiable curiosity about how kids think leads her to work in schools on a regular basis and to spend as much time as possible in the company of children.
Adria Klein, Ph.D. is renowned for her work with school districts across the United States to support literacy instruction for striving readers, English language learners, and other student populations. Dr. Klein works with striving students across the grade levels and has taught reading on five continents. She has authored or co-authored many professional books and articles about guided reading and other literacy topics.
Dr. Klein is a professor emerita of reading education at CSU San Bernardino where she was the Chair of the Department of Elementary and Bilingual Education. A former president of the California Reading Association, she also served on the International Literacy Association’s Board of Directors. Currently, she is
the director of a center focused on early literacy intervention at Saint Mary’s College of California. She also serves as a reviewer for the professional journal, The Reading Teacher.
STEPHANIE HARVEY & ANNIE WARD
Foreword by Dav Pilkey
Appearing in Denver
How to Grow Confident, Capable Readers
Appearing in Universal City