Janet Taylor Lisle

BIO

Janet Taylor Lisle's novels for young readers include five selected as Best Books of the Year by School Library Journal: SIRENS AND SPIES, THE LAMPFISH OF TWILL, FOREST, A MESSAGE FROM THE MATCH GIRL (from the Investigators of the Unknown series), and AFTERNOON OF THE ELVES, a Newbery Honor Book. Her most recent title for Atheneum is THE ART OF KEEPING COOL, a Horn Book Fanfare title and winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.

She lives with her family on the coast of Rhode Island.

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