Secrets of the Seven Stars: Elly's Awakening (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780615828350)

JAN SPIVEY GILCHRIST is the award winning illustrator of 74 children's books. She is the author of 5 picture books, and she coauthored 1 novel. Dr. Gilchrist illustrated the highly acclaimed picture book, The Great Migration: Journey to the North, winner of the 2012 Coretta Scott King Honor Award, it is also a Junior Library Guild Best Book, NAACP Nominee, a CCBC Best Book for 2012 and Georgia State Nominee. Gilchrist also won the 1990 Coretta Scott King Award for her illustrations in Nathaniel Talking and the 1992 Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award for illustrations in Night on Neighborhood Street, all written by Eloise Greenfield. My America, written and illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist with illustrations by Ashley Bryan, is a Parents' Choice Recommended Book Award Winner for 2007 and was selected for the National Book Festival, also in 2007. Books illustrated by Gilchrist have received ALA Notables and numerous other prestigious awards. She was inducted into the Society of Illustrators in 2001 and into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 1999. Gilchrist received an MA in Painting from the University of Northern Iowa, an MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College and a doctorate degree in English from Madison University. She is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She lives in Olympia Fields, Illinois.

KELLEY POWELL BARCELLONA'S first middle grade novel, The Hive, was published by Pegasus Books for Children in 2009. Her first short story "Dirty Little Town" was published in Fantasies, Anthology of World's Great Short Stories. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children at Vermont College. Kelley is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She was a middle school teacher and college professor in Tampa, Florida. Kelley currently lives in Windermere, Florida with her family.