Dear Teachers,

If your school has closed due to COVID-19 and you are teaching online, the authors below are happy to do a virtual author visit for your students through various meeting platforms.  On this list are authors who write for a variety of ages, live in a number of different time zones (including Germany!) and are willing to help in any way they can to help you keep your students engaged. All authors have different policies about whether they have had to return to charging honorariums for their visits. They can be contacted via their websites.

Also, the amazing Kate Messner has put together a list of teaching resources on her website that you might want to check out.

Stay well! We are all in this together!

— Joelle

Younger Readers

Christina Geist www.christinageist.com
Christina is the NY Times Best Selling author of Sorry Grown-Ups, You Can’t Go To School, and Buddy’s Bedtime Battery.

Mariana Llanos marianallanos.com
Mariana is the author of books for children in both English and Spanish and is able to do virtual visits in both languages.   

Songju Ma Daemicke  www.songjumadaemicke.com
Songju grew up in Jilin, China.  She is the author of Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant.

Sarah Lynn Scheerger  www.sarahlynnbooks.com 
Sarah is the author of books Mitzvah Pizza and Tip-Tap-Pop for young readers and the middle grade novel Operation Frog.

Julia DeVillers https://www.juliadevillers.com/
Julia is the best-selling author of How My Private Personal Journal Became a Bestseller (adapted into a Disney Channel Orginal Movie), Trading Faces (with twin sister Jennifer Roy), the Liberty Porter, First Daughter series and many more books for young readers.

Ani Castillo https://www.lbyr.com/contributor/ani-castillo/
Ani is a cartoonist, illustrator, teacher and the author of Ping. She can be reached through her twitter account @ImaginaryAni.

Middle Grade

Joan Bauer http://joanbauer.com
Joan is the New York Times Best Selling and Newberry Honor Medal author of Squashed, Close to Famous, Soar and many other beloved middle grade novels. 

Joshua Pruett www.joshuapruett.com
Joshua is the author of Shipwreckers.  He is also a writer and artist who has worked on titles such as The Croods, Book of Dragons and Phineas & Ferb.

J A White  http://jawhitebooks.com
J.A. is the author of fantastically creepy books such as The Thickety, Nightbooks, and Shadow School.

Sarah Baughman  www.sarahrbaughman.com
Sarah is the middle grade author of The Light In the Lake and The Wild Path.

Jennifer Camiccia  www.jencamiccia.com
Jennifer is the author of The Memory Keeper.

Frank Morelli www.frankmorelliwrites.com
Frank is the author of books for both middle grade and young adult readers. No Sad Songs is a 2019 YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. 

Lisa Schmid  www.lisalschmid.com 
Lisa is the author of Ollie Oxley and The Ghost: The Search for Lost Gold.

Janae Marks  www.janaemarks.com
Janie is the author of From The Desk of Zoe Washington.

Jennifer Roy  http://www.jenniferroy.com
Jennifer is the author of Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein, Trading Faces, Mindblind and other books for young readers.

Cindy Ciprano  http://www.cindycipriano.com
Cindy is the author of middle grade and young adult novels. Her works include The Fading series, The Sidhe series and the Miller’s Island Mysteries.

Kaela Noel https://www.kaelanoel.com
Kaela is the debut author of Coo.

Young Adult

Joelle Charbonneau  www.joellecharbonneau.com 
Joelle is the New York Times Best Selling author of The Testing Trilogy, the Dividing Eden series, NEED, Time Bomb and Verify. 

Ellen Hopkins www.ellenhopkinsbooks.com 
Ellen is the #1 New York Times Best Selling author of fourteen books for teens.  Her first middle grade novel will come out this year. 

Jon McGoran  www.jonmcgoran.com
Jon is the author of Spliced, Splintered and Spiked. 

Madeleine Roux  www.madeleine-roux.com
Madeleine is the NY Times Best Selling author of the Asylum series, House of Furies series; Allison Hewitt is Trapped and many more. 

Megan Bannen  https://www.meganbannen.com
Megan is a former librarian and the author of The Bird and The Blade as well as the upcoming Soulswift.

Amber Lough  https://www.amberlough.com/
Amber is the author of Open Fire, The Fire Wish and The Blind Wish. Amber currently lives in Germany.

Eileen Cook  http://www.eileencook.com
Eileen Cook is the award winning author of books Remember, You Owe me a Murder and With Malice as well as others written for young adults and the Fourth Grade Fairy novels for middle grade readers.

Alexander London  https://www.calexanderlondon.com
Alex is the author of over 25 books for children, teens and adults, which include Black Wings Beating, Proxy and The Wild Ones series. 

Sara Fujimura  www.sarafujimura.com 
Sara is the author of Young Adult novels. She has been a freelance writer and creative writing teacher for over a decade.

Jennifer Ziegler  http://jenniferziegler.net
Jennifer is the author of The Brewster Triplets series, How Not To be Popular as well as other books for Tweens and Teens.  

Kim Baccellia  www.kim-baccellia.com
Kim is the author of Young Adult novels. 

Jessica Burkhart  www.jessicaburkhart.com
Jessica is the author of the best selling Canterwood Crest series as well as the YA novel Wild Hearts.

Natalie Meg Evans  http://nataliemegevans.uk
Natalie is the New York Times Best Selling author of historical fiction including The Dress Thief, A Summer In The Vineyard, The Secret Vow and many more!  Natalie currently lives in Suffolk, England.

HIGH SCHOOL and COLLEGE Interest

Mark Blayney https://www.theworkpress.com/
Mark is the author of a number of practical guide books for business owners on strategy, management, finance, and creating and realizing business valued. Succeed in Your First Job is his first book for young people about to start work rather than their bosses. 

If any links are broken or you have trouble contacting the authors, reach out to Joelle Charbonneau or her assistant Jaci Charbonneau for more information.