Donna Gephart's award-winning middle grade novels include: Abby, Tried and True, The Paris Project, In Your Shoes, Lily and Dunkin, Death by Toilet Paper, How to Survive Middle School and others from Penguin Random House and Simon and Schuster. Welcome to the Woofmore from Abrams is a fun, new early chapter book series about a posh dog hotel run by dogs for dogs with a new VIP (Very Important Pooch) appearing in each book. Go Be Wonderful from Holiday House is Donna's first picture book about being perfectly imperfect and surviving the first day of school with guts and gusto. Donna is a popular speaker at schools, conferences and book festivals. She lives in South Jersey with her family.