5th Grade Author Research

To go along with your Newbery reading, you will be researching the author who wrote your book. The list below features each author from a book chosen in your class. Click on the links to access information for your project:

Tom Angleberger

Katherine Applegate

Avi

Natalie Babbitt

Marion Dane Bauer

Marion Dane Bauer Interview

Judy Blume

Betsy Byars

Beverly Cleary

Andrew Clements

Sharon Creech

Roald Dahl

Kate Dicamillo

Eleanor Estes

Sid Fleischman

Patricia Reilly Giff

Patricia Reilly Giff

In Memory of Patricia Reilly Giff

Dan Gutman

Shannon Hale

Marguerite Henry

Carl Hiaasen

Gordon Korman

Madeline L'Engle

C.S. Lewis

Cynthia Lord

Lois Lowry

Scott O'Dell

Katherine Paterson

James Patterson

Gary Paulsen

Richard Peck

Rick Riordan

J.K. Rowling

Pam Munoz Ryan   

Louis Sachar

Brian Selznick

Jerry Spinelli

E.B. White

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Use the following resources to find more information on your author:

https://www.readingrockets.org/books-and-authors/author-and-illustrator-interviews

http://www.biography.com/search