MaryClare Colombo is from Plano, Texas, but was born in and adopted from Kunming, Yunnan, China. In her senior year, she discovered the school newspaper, and wrote for the Plano Senior High School Wildcat Tales. She will continue to write for Kalamazoo College in the fall of 2015. In her free time, MaryClare plays ukulele and sings. MaryClare created this book in the spring of her senior year in her AP English class. She chose the book because it is one of her favorite books and she feels a strong likeness to Charlie. She usually interprets every part of life literally but finds creating art h...