Megan Whalen Turner

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Megan Whalen Turner is the Newbery Honor winning author The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, and The King of Attolia.  The fourth book in the series, A Conspiracy of Kings, will be released by Greenwillow Books in March.  Growing up, her taste in books was limited for one entire year to the Black Stallion books by Walter Farley.  As a college student she learned from Betsy Hearne to judge books more objectively and read more broadly, but at some point she realized she was not a librarian and her tastes have grown narrow again. Now that she’s a judge, she’s willing to make an effort, but don’t expect her to say anything good about a book where the dog dies.