Jasmine Warga is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of middle grade novels Other Words For Home, The Shape of Thunder, A Rover’s Story, and A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall. Other Words For Home earned multiple awards, including a John Newbery Honor, a Walter Honor for Young Readers, and a Charlotte Huck Honor. The Shape of Thunder was a School Library Journal and Bank Street best book of the year, a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Children’s and YA Book Award, and has been named to several state award reading lists. A Rover’s Story was an instant New York Times bestseller, a Indie Next List and a Junior Library Guild selection, and was named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post. Jasmine is also the author of the young adult novel, My Heart and Other Black Holes, which has been translated into over twenty different languages. Her latest book, A Strange Things Happened in Cherry Hall, released to critical acclaim, garnering starred reviews in Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal.
Originally from Cincinnati, Jasmine now lives in the Chicago-area with her family in a house filled with books.
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