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Coats - Author Photo Color 200J. Anderson Coats has received three Junior Library Guild awards, won two Washington State Book awards, and earned starred reviews from Kirkus, School Library Journal, the Horn Book Review, and Shelf Awareness. Her newest books are A Season Most Unfair, a middle grade historical set in medieval England about a girl with something to prove; and The Night Ride, a middle grade action-adventure about horses in danger and kids who want to save them – if they can.

The Wicked and the Just was one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Teen Books of 2012 and won the Washington State Book Award for Young Adults. She is also the author of The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming, a middle-grade novel set in Washington Territory in the 1860s which won the 2018 Washington State Book Award for Middle Grade, as well as being a 2017 Junior Library Guild selection and one of Kirkus’s Best Historical Middle Grade Books of 2017.

She is also the author of R is for Rebel, which Booklist called “an empowering and timely story about resistance,” and The Green Children of Woolpit, which the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books described as “precise, distinctive, and very beautiful.” Spindle and Dagger, which School Library Journal described as “powerful, heartbreaking, and suspenseful […] must-read historical fiction,” was a finalist for the 2020 Washington State Book Award for Young Adults.

Her YA action-adventure novel, The Loss of the Burying Ground, is forthcoming from Candlewick Press in 2024.