Jacqueline West

Jacqueline West is the author of the New York Times–bestselling middle grade series The Books of Elsewhere; the Schneider Family Honor Book The Collectors and its sequel, A Storm of Wishes; and the middle grade mystery Digging Up Danger; as well as the YA novels Dreamers Often Lie and Last Things. Her debut, The Shadows (The Books of Elsewhere, Volume One), garnered multiple starred reviews, was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start and a Junior Library Guild Selection, and received the 2010 CYBILS Award for fantasy/science fiction. An award-winning poet and occasional actress, Jacqueline lives with her family in Red Wing, Minnesota.