About the Author
Recipient of the ALA Schneider Family Book Award, the Anna Dewdney Read Aloud Honor, and the Comstock Read Aloud Award, Shannon Stocker is driven to fill bookshelves with diverse protagonists with disabilities, as she believes every child deserves to see themselves on the written page. With themes of self-advocacy and acceptance in the face of medical hardship, her debut YA novel, Stronger at the Seams, is for everyone who has ever felt broken.