Nora Raleigh Baskin is an ALA and ILA award–winning author of fifteen novels for young readers, including Anything but Typical, Ruby on the Outside, and Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story. Her work has been published in several short story anthologies, and her personal narrative essays have appeared in such places as the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, NCTE Voices from the Middle, and The Writer magazine. NoraBaskin.com.