Nevada Union High School

It's true, authors are just like rock stars to us here in the NU library. And many of them have great web pages and love hearing from their readers. Many of the authors that I've met at conferences seem actually eager to hear from kids and will write back to you if you contact them.

Click around to visit some of Ms. Sonnenberg's favorite YA authors, or suggest an addition here.

• Carolyn Mackler (The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things)
  
• Ellen Hopkins (Crank, Burned, Glass, Impulse, Identical, and a new one called Tricks)
  
• Stephenie Meyer (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, The Host)
  
• Chris Crutcher (too many books to list, but an amazing guy and real champion for teenagers and intellectual freedom)
  
• Kevin Brooks (Candy, Lucas, Kissing Rain, Being, and more)
  
• Pete Hautman (Rash, Mr. Was, Invisible, and more)
  
• Rick Riordan (Lightning Thief, Sea of Monsters, Titan's Curse, and Battle of the Labyrinth)
  
• Sarah Dessen (tons of books, always checked out though)
  
• Dave Pelzer (A Child Called It, Lost Boy, many others)
• D.J. MacHale