Valerie Martin is an award-winning author whose work includes multiple award-winning short stories, picture books, and novels for young readers. Her novel, "Howey", won the Margaret Edwards Award for Fiction. She also won two other prestigious awards for her book "The Supermarket"; she was named a Grand Master of the American Library Association in 1992, received the Coretta Scott King Award in 1993, and received the Coretta Scott King Book Award in 1994. Valerie has also won numerous other awards including being selected by Blackboard magazine as one of the top ten fiction writers of all time
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Valerie is currently working on her next novel about an 11 year old girl who goes to the funeral home to investigate why her grandmother is missing. She lives with her family in Pennsylvania.