Montgomery, L. M.
L.M. Montgomery achieved international fame in her lifetime that endures well over a century later. A prolific writer, she published some 500 short stories and poems and twenty novels. Most recognized for Anne of Green Gables, her work has been hailed by Mark Twain, Margaret Atwood, Madeleine L'Engle and Princess Kate, to name a few. Today, Montgomery's novels, journals, letters, short stories, and poems are read and studied by general readers and scholars from around the world. Her writing appeals to people who love beauty and to those who struggle against oppression.

Fields, Anna
Louise Erdrich lives with her family in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore. Ms. Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, and this story--which will, in the end, span one hundred years in the life of an Ojibwe woman--was inspired when Ms. Erdrich and her mother, Rita Gourneau Erdrich, were researching their own family history. "Chickadee" begins a new part of the story that started with "The Birchbark House", a National Book Award finalist; "The Game of Silence", winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction; and the acclaimed