 Ted
Dunagan, named 2009 Georgia Author of
the Year in the young adult category for his debut novel, A Yellow Watermelon.
The sequel to this novel, Secret of the Satilfa, was published in 2010, and has
also been nominated for the same award. The third in the series, Trouble on the
Tombigbee, is due to be published in August of 2011. Dunagan has conducted well
over 100 author events and presented to almost 8,000 elementary and middle
school students. He also writes news, sports, features and a weekly column for
The Monticello News, in Monticello, Georgia, where he lives. |
 Mike
Graf is a former classroom teacher and TV weatherman. He knows how to speak to children and his assemblies are highly engaging and informative. Mike has written over 70 books for children and teachers. Mike’s presentations include personally-experienced, gripping tales about scorpion encounters, flash floods, dinosaur digs, wolf sightings, bears encounters, cave rescues and explorations, thunderstorms and lightning strikes, tornado chasing, national parks adventures, rock-climbing and many other subjects. He also presents information on weather, the writing process, and how to create great stories. |
Fran
Hawk is the author of the
children's books Count Down to Fall
and The Story of the H.L. Hunley and Queenie's
Coin. She is a children's librarian and mother
of four, and is available for author events throughout the Southeast.
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 M.H. Herlong grew up in a small town in South Carolina where the only sailing was in books and there were never any hurricanes. This suited her perfectly as readingand writingwere always her first loves. M.H. has taught high school English and college writing, gone to law school, practiced and taught law, sailed in the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands, had four boys, studied in graduate school, and experienced hurricanes. |