Donna Gephart‘s award-winning middle grade novels include: Abby, Tried and True, Lily and Dunkin, Death by Toilet Paper and How to Survive Middle School. Welcome to the Woofmore is a fun, new early chapter book series from Abrams about a posh hotel run by dogs for dogs with a new VIP (Very Important Pooch) appearing in each book. Go Be Wonderful is Donna’s first picture book about being perfectly imperfect. She’s a popular speaker at schools, conferences and book festivals. Donna lives in South Jersey near Philadelphia with her awesome and paw-some family. Visit her online at www.donnagephart.com.

Awards

The Sid Fleischman Humor Award; California Young Readers Medal Winner; New York Public Library’s Best Books for Kids; NPR’s Best Kids’ Books; Chicago Public Library’s Best Fiction for Older Readers, Great Words, Great Works Book Selection from the National Spelling Bee; Thurber House Children’s-Writer-in-Residence, etc.

3 Fun Facts

1. I won second place in the school talent show in 7th grade with my gravity-defying hula-hooping skills. (It’s not like I’m still bitter about not winning first place. Nope. Not at all.)
2. I’m not so great with numbers.