Rebecca Jones-Howe
From the author's official website: Rebecca Jones-Howe was born in Vancouver, but was moved to the sunny interior of Kamloops, British Columbia before she was able to hate the rain. She grew up with her sister in a patchwork post-war home that neighboured a large park with a swimming pool, so she had a lot of time to spend outside. Always a shy child, Rebecca found solace in writing. She found great joy in penning stories in the third grade, where she and her classmates survived bizarre inland hurricanes, thwarted movie theatre murderers with toilet plungers, and killed ghosts by stepping on them. The chance to entertain her friends by…
