Karleen Bradford is the award-winning author of 24 books for children and young adults. Her topics include historical fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction. Her historical novel There Will be Wolves won the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Canadian Book Award, was selected by the Children's Librarians of the Toronto Public Library as “One of the 100 Best Canadian Books for Today's Children and Teens,” and received an American Library Best Book citation. It also won the Saskatchewan Young Readers’ Choice Shining Willow Award. Nominations include short-listings for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award, the Silver Birch Award, and the Red Cedar Award.

Karleen has always tried to travel to the places she writes about while researching her books. While writing With Nothing But Our Courage, she travelled through Lake Champlain into Quebec and up the St. Lawrence along the route Mary MacDonald and her family would have taken. For A Desperate Road to Freedom, she visited Virginia and mapped out the trail Julia May and her family might have followed to Canada.

Karleen now lives in Brechin, Ontario, near Orillia.

Website: www.karleenbradford.com
Blog: karleensblog.wordpress.com