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Jack Challoner

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Always frustrated by lack of clarity in books he read as a child, Jack long felt the need to make the amazing things that science and technology have achieved accessible to a wide audience. After studying physics in London, he trained as a science and maths teacher, then worked at London's Science Museum, in the education department and in their flagship interactive gallery, Launch Pad. Jack left the museum in 1991 to write science and technology books, and to write and perform science shows in museums, libraries and schools. He's been doing all that ever since, with nearly forty books to his name. He also...

V.T. Bidania

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V.T. Bidania is the author of ASTRID AND APOLLO (Capstone) , a chapter book series starring Hmong American twins Astrid and Apollo Lee. She was born in Laos and grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has an MFA in creative writing from The New School, won a Loft Mirrors & Windows Fellowship, and is a McKnight Writing Fellow. ASTRID AND APOLLO is on the Chicago Public Library's List of Best Fiction for Younger Readers of 2020 and The Starry Campout, the first book in the Astrid and Apollo series, is an Amazon Editors Pick (Best Books for Ages 6-8) and was selected as the chapter book title for St. Paul Public...