Wendy Mass won the ALA Schneider Family Book Award for her first young readers' novel, A Mango-Shaped Space, about a girl with the fascinating condition synesthesia. In Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, a boy embarks on a life-changing journey. In Every Soul a Star, three very different kids are brought together by a solar eclipse; and in The Candymakers, four kids enter the contest of a lifetime. The Space Taxi series sends a boy and a talking cat on adventures to distant planets, and the Willow Falls books (beginning with 11 Birthdays) add a dash of magic into a small town. Wendy lives in New Jersey with her family.
"""[A] real page-turner....Give this mouthwatering confection to children who like Trenton [Lee] Stewart's The Mysterious Benedict Society."" --School Library Journal ""[R]eveals a multitude of mysteries....Attentive, candy-loving readers will be richly rewarded."" --Booklist ""Earnest and sweet, with enough salty twists not to taste saccharine."" --Kirkus Reviews ""The novel satisfies without being sticky-sweet."" --The Horn Book Praise for The Candymakers: A New York Times Bestseller A Kids' Indie Next List of the Year"