Gail Carson Levine

Gail Carson Levine is best known for her fairytale retelling, Ella Enchanted, which won a Newbery honor and was made into a movie starring Anne Hathaway. Her new novel, A Ceiling Made of Eggshells, is about Loma, a Jewish girl in late 15th century Spain just before the monarchs expel the Jews. Her novel, Dave at Night, is based on her father’s orphanage childhood in New York City. Most of her books are fantasies, but she’s also written two writing how-to’s for kids, a poetry collection called Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It, and two picture books.