About the Author

Michael Sullivan is the author of several books, including Connecting Boys with Books, Connecting Boys with Books 2: Closing the Reading Gap, Fundamentals of Children's Services, the Escapade Johnson series of children's books, and The Sapphire Knight. A popular speaker on the topics of boys and reading, library administration, and the future of public libraries, he is a former president of the New Hampshire Library Association and was the 1998 New Hampshire Librarian of the Year. He has been awarded the U.S. Conference of Mayors City Livability Award and the Mom's Choice Award for juvenile fiction. He lives in Collinsville, Oklahoma.