Sherri L. Smith is the author of nine, award-winning fiction and nonfiction books for young people, including the 2021 Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award winner, The Blossom and the Firefly, and the California Book Awards Gold Medalist, Flygirl. Her novels appear on multiple state reading lists and have been named Amelia Bloomer, Junior Library Guild, Children's Book Council, Southern California Independent Booksellers Award, and American Library Association Best Books for Young People selections. She also writes comics, including Wonder Woman, Bart Simpson Comics, and James Cameron's Avatar. Sherri holds a certificate in the Art of Archetypal Fairy Tale Analysis from the Assisi Institute, and a certificate in Enchantivism from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she is currently studying Applied Mythology. Enchantivism is a form of "activism for introverts" that uses deep storytelling, mythology, dreams, and the environment to enact positive change in the world. Sherri has also taught creative writing at Goddard College and was the 2021 Mina Hohenburg Darden Visiting Professor at Old Dominion University.
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YOUNG ADULT
The Blossom and the Firefly
G. P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, 2020
Pasadena
G. P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, 2016
Orleans
G. P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, 2013
Sparrow
Delacorte Press, 2006
Lucy the Giant
Delacorte Press, 2002
MIDDLE GRADE
Avatar: The High Ground, Vol. 1
Dark Horse Comics, 2022
Avatar: The High Ground, Vol. 2
Dark Horse Comics, 2022
Avatar: The High Ground, Vol. 3
Dark Horse Comics, 2022
Avatar: The High Ground, Tsu-Tay’s Path
Dark Horse Comics, 2022
What Was Reconstruction (nonfiction, illustrated by Tim Foley)
Penguin Workshop, 2022
What Was the Harlem Renaissance? (nonfiction, illustrated by Tim Foley))
Penguin Workshop, 2021
Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen (nonfiction, illustrated by Jake Murray)
Penguin Workshop, 2018
The Toymaker's Apprentice
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2015
Flygirl
Putnam/Speak Publishing, 2010
Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet
Delacorte Press, 2008
PICTURE BOOK
My Little Golden Book About Misty Copeland (nonfiction)
Golden Books, 2022
