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Amra Sabic-El-Rayess

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Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess grew up in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After surviving ethnic cleansing and more than 1,100 days under the Serbs' military siege, she emigrated to the United States in 1996. By December 1999, she earned a BA in Economics from Brown University. Later, she obtained two Masters degrees and a PhD from Columbia University. Currently, she is a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College working on understanding how and why societies fall apart and what role education can play in rebuilding decimated countries. She has published on education-related issues and has lectured around...

Sarah Mlynowski

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Sarah is the author of the WHATEVER AFTER and MAGIC IN MANHATTAN series, the UPSIDE-DOWN MAGIC series (along with Emily Jenkins and Lauren Myracle) , as well as DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT, THINK TWICE, MILKRUN, FISHBOWL, AS SEEN ON TV, MONKEY BUSINESS, GIMME A CALL, TEN THINGS WE DID (AND PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE) , HOW TO BE BAD (along with E. Lockhart and Lauren Myracle) , and I SEE LONDON, I SEE FRANCE. Sarah's short stories and novellas include A LITTLE BIT BROKEN, A NICE FLING IS HARD TO FIND, KNOW IT ALL, and CRUISIN'. Sarah's books have been translated into twenty-one languages and optioned...