Traci Sorell is a Cherokee Nation citizen and an author of fiction and nonfiction for young people. Her first five books all received awards from the American Indian Library Association. Those titles include We Are Still Here! Native American Truths Everyone Should Know; Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer; and At the Mountain’s Base. Her nonfiction titles have also received two Sibert Honors, two Orbis Pictus Honors, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. A former federal Indigenous law attorney and advocate, Traci lives with her family on her tribe’s reservation in northeastern Oklahoma. You can learn more about Traci and her work at www.tracisorell.com.