ALLAN STRATTON is the internationally acclaimed author of the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Chanda s Secrets. His novel Chanda s Wars won the CLA Young Adult Book Award and was a Junior Library Guild selection, and his other novels, Borderline and Leslie s Journal, were both ALA Best Book for Young Adults selections. All of his books have been nominated for the White Pine Award. Allan has been on safari in Africa, hiked the Great Wall of China, explored pyramids in Egypt and flown over Cappadocia in a hot-air balloon. He lives with his partner in Toronto with four cats and a whole lot of fish.