I owe oodles of gratitude to: Dave, Mom, Dad, David, Max, Heidi, Aunt Emily, Aaron, Karen, and the rest of the Rosenbergs, Libby Isaac, the Indiana relatives, Shark Attack, the BWL Library team, and every single girl who has written me an e-mail or a real letter.
“Thank you” doesn’t seem like enough for Alyssa Eisner Henkin, the best agent in the history of the world, but I will say “Thank you” anyway. To everyone at Abrams and Amulet, especially Susan, Howard, Jason, Chad, Jim, Mary Ann, Laura, and Elisa: you all make the most beautiful books, and I am so lucky to be a part of that.
Maggie Lehrman, thank you for making me work so hard and for putting so much of yourself into my books. I owe you something huge, and I will send it along as soon as I figure out what it is.
Finally, to my little Aleah Violet: thank you for being you.
Lisa Greenwald is the author of My Life in Pink & Green and Sweet Treats & Secret Crushes. She works in the library at the Birch Wathen Lenox School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She is a graduate of the New School’s MFA program in writing for children and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her online at www.lisagreenwald.com.