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Raquel Palacio was born on July 13, 1963. She currently lives with her husband and two sons in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents are Colombian and immigrated to the U.S.A. She was born and raised in Manhattan where she attended The High School of Art & Design and majored in illustration at the Parsons School of Design. She has designed thousands of book covers for other authors. In 2012, she published her book, Wonder, which sold five million copies.

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John Green was born on August 24, 1977 and is an author, producer, editor, and actor. John was born in Indiana but three weeks after his birth, his family moved from Michigan to Alabama to Florida. He attended Indian Springs High School which was the setting for his novel, Looking for Alaska. After graduating from Kenyon College in 2000, he worked at a children’s hospital which inspired his novel, the Fault in Our Stars. He lived in Chicago for many years where he reviewed hundreds of books. He published his first novel, Looking for Alaska, in 2005 and has published many novels since then.

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Other Works by John Green - Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars

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Other Works by John Green - Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars

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Other Works by R.J. Palacio -The Julian Chapter, Pluto: A Wonder Story, and Shingaling: A Wonder Story.

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Other Works by R.J. Palacio -The Julian Chapter, Pluto: A Wonder Story, and Shingaling: A Wonder Story.

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John Green was born on August 24, 1977 and is an author, producer, editor, and actor. John was born in Indiana but three weeks after his birth, his family moved from Michigan to Alabama to Florida. He attended Indian Springs High School which was the setting for his novel, Looking for Alaska. After graduating from Kenyon College in 2000, he worked at a children’s hospital which inspired his novel, the Fault in Our Stars. He lived in Chicago for many years where he reviewed hundreds of books. He published his first novel, Looking for Alaska, in 2005 and has published many novels since then.

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James Smith Dashner was born on November 26, 1972 in Austell, Georgia and has five siblings. From a young age, he would type on his parent’s typewriter and graduated from Duluth High School. After graduating, he moved to Utah to study at Brigham Young University and received his master’s degree in accounting. He married Lynette Anderson and had four kids. James published the first book of his series, the Maze Runner, in 2009.

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On September 28, 1961 Tatiana de Rosnay was born in Paris. Tatiana’s father was a scientist and her grandmother was an actress. She was raised in Paris, France and Boston, Massachusetts then moved to England to study English literature at the University of East Anglia. After receiving her bachelor's degree, she moved back to Paris and became a journalist for Psychologies Magazine and published fifteen novels. In 2006, she published Sarah’s Key which sold five million copies.

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Other Works by John Green - Turtles All the Way Down and An Abundance of Katherines. 

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Other Works by John Green - Turtles All the Way Down and An Abundance of Katherines. 

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Other Works by James Dashner - The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure

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Other Works by James Dashner - The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure

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Other Works by Tatiana de Rosnay - A Secret Kept and The Other Story

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Other Works by Tatiana de Rosnay - A Secret Kept and The Other Story

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In John Green’s Turtles All The Way Down, we follow a sixteen year old named Aza Holmes as well as her best friend, Daisy. Aza tries to help Daisy find where her childhood friend, Davis Pickett’s billionaire father has gone. She is also trying to be a good student and a good friend to Daisy but her mental health is constantly getting in her way. She has been going to therapy because of anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder. I am glad John Green wrote how the thoughts were actually going through her head, while she struggled to deal with everyday situations. The novel gave a more realistic view of mental health disorders when many others romanticize people with mental health issues.

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An Interview with Tatiana from Motherdaughterbookclub.com

How did you decide to become an author?

... I wrote a 90-paged novel for my mother’s birthday on a school notebook. It was called “A girl named Carrie,” the story of a poor little rich girl in 19th century London. My mother was thankfully very enthusiastic. And so I decided to pursue the experience, and every year, I wrote a novel for my family and kept writing my diary. But I didn’t seek publication until my late twenties.

There are many stories about the Holocaust. What makes Sarah’s Key different?

Maybe the fact that there are two voices in the book, a voice from the past and a voice from the present is what makes it different.

https://motherdaughterbookclub.com/2009/01/interview-with-tatiana-de-rosnay-author-of-sarahs-key/

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Tatiana de Rosnay Video Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy0lnc76RaQ

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John Green speaking about Aza Holmes: “Aza’s problem is not only the obsessive thought spirals or the compulsive behaviour she uses to manage them,” he continues. “The problem is also that these thoughts really undermine her entire sense of self. That’s something I am pretty familiar with … I find it profoundly scary not to feel like I’m able to choose my thoughts, and it’s also just exhausting and infuriating: when it’s happening you feel like it’ll never end. I’m also really lucky that this is mostly treatable in my case and there are things I can do to make it better." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/14/john-green-turtles-all-the-way-down-ocd-interview

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John Green talks about how he related to Aza Holmes:  "Mr. Green, the author of the best-selling novel “The Fault in Our Stars,” has struggled with severe anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder for about as long as he can remember. He keeps it in check with medication and therapy, but every once in a while, it consumes him.

“I couldn’t escape the spiral of my thoughts, and I felt like they were coming from the outside,”'
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/books/john-green-anxiety-obsessive-compulsive-disorder.html

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An Interview with James Dashner:
On a slightly more serious note, each of your books features strong, complicated relationships that serve as both a contrast to the often-horrific events of the story and a center that holds the nonstop action together. Friendship plays an especially important role, and I’m interested in what draws you to examine that particular type of relationship so frequently? Do the dynamics between your characters ever steer the story in a particular direction, or does plot always dictate how your characters relate to each other?
"Thank you for saying this, because developing characters is not an easy thing for me. I’ve worked hard to get better at it, and I know I have a long way to go. But story without compelling characters is worthless. You have to care about them. And I really love characters that are complicated, with layers. I love heroes with flaws and villains for whom you feel empathy. That’s what I try to do with my characters. Plot probably comes first and easiest to me, but then I try hard to focus on its effects on the people in the story."
http://www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/2014/09/18/one-thing-leads-to-another-an-interview-with-james-dashner/

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James Dashner discussing the Maze Runner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHW0L5BctK4

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Interview with R.J. Palacio:
What inspired this story? I heard that it was based off a true encounter.
"About 10 years ago, I was with my two sons outside of an ice cream store, and we found ourselves sitting in very close proximity to a little girl who had very significant craniofacial differences. My little son got a little frightened and started to cry, and in my haste, I whisked him away to avoid her seeing him react to her face. Afterward, I regretted it because I missed this opportunity to turn this situation into a teaching moment for my son. That’s what prompted my thinking of what it must be like to face a world every day that doesn’t quite know how to face you back." https://mashable.com/2017/11/27/mashreads-podcast-wonder-rj-palacio-interview/#Qa.Bsj7vdPq9

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Video Interview with R.J. Palacio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUJtGHhy41Q

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John Green vlogs about Paper Towns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUNAKChww2A

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John Green talks about writing Paper Towns and the Paper Towns movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_O9tZdOvao

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https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1i3-hNev59cF0q3oQzhDk0hgVPILirdZ_YmfvPLD3kkA/edit

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sgDJxQGRWg&feature=youtu.be

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https://youtu.be/4YHgebYm-CQ

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFAsDj-2gfM&feature=youtu.be

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https://youtu.be/8q9KP4ZlSTg

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https://youtu.be/1fe8CXyBhow

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gaAEX-MxRoKqjToALuQNnC9zXojX3sYA9Yda2g1vrKY/edit?usp=sharing