Kari Anne Holt is the author of several middle grade novels in verse including"Rhyme Schemer" and "Brains for Lunch", which received a starred review in "Publishers Weekly" and was highlighted on the Texas Library Association s Annotated Lone Star Reading List for 2011. She is also the author of" Mike Stellar: Nerves of Steel", a nominee for the 2014 Connecticut Library Association Nutmeg Book Award and the 2013 Maud Hart Lovelace Award. Kari has recently contributed to the anthology, "Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters To Their Teen Selves". Learn more about her at KAHolt.com.