Melissa Hart is the author of Better with Books: 500 Diverse Books to Ignite Empathy and Encourage Self-Acceptance in Tweens and Teens (Penguin/Random House, 2019), as well as the award-winning middle-grade novel Avenging the Owl (Simon & Schuster, 2016). She’s contributing editor at The Writer Magazine, and she teaches for the MFA program in Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University. www.melissahart.com