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Juan Pablo Lombana is a writer, editor, and producer. While growing up in Bogotá, Colombia, he played soccer every day. During the 2010 World Cup, he wrote the bilingual blog World Cup Theater, focusing on the tournament's drama on and off the field. This is his first book for Scholastic.Zamie Casazola was born in Huaral, Peru. He lived in Miami since he was 8 years old and later moved to New York to study Architecture at Pratt Institute. His passion for painting and illustration were first nurtured at a young age by his grandfather, who gave him his first sketchbook and a set of tools to draw with. He now lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and his pet Thug the Pug.

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T.A. Barron is the award-winning author of fantasy novels such as The Lost Years of Merlin epic—soon to be a major motion picture. He serves on a variety of environmental and educational boards including The Nature Conservancy and The Land and Water Fund of the Rockies, and is the founder of a national award for heroic children. Following a life-changing decision to leave a successful business career to write full-time in 1990, Barron has written seventeen books, but is happiest when on the mountain trails with his wife, Currie, and their five children.

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Marion is Little Miss Patriot--she loves America and works every day to make it the greatest nation in the world, from helping her parents around the house, to supporting our troops and hometown heroes, to joining her grandmother's campaign for public office and other activities to make a difference in her community and country. She learns a lot about how to do that from her mother and grandmother, both members of the National Federation of Republican Women, which is the heart, soul and backbone of the Republican Party. "Ree," as her family and friends nicknamed her (for Republican), is so inspired by them that she begins her own career in public service by running for president of her class at school! Will she win?  Will she make a difference? And will she perhaps think about higher office?  Join Ree on her adventure with the inspiring Republican women in her life.