About the Author
Lisa Graff is the author of many award-winning novels including
The Thing About Georgie,
Umbrella Summer,
Absolutely Almost,
Lost in the Sun, and
A Tangle of Knots, which was nominated for the National Book Award. A graduate of UCLA and a recipient of an MFA in Creative Writing for Children from the New School, Lisa also spent five years as an editor at Farrar Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers. She now lives with her family outside of Philadelphia. She invites you to visit her online at
lisagraff.com