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Tae Keller

Tae Keller

Graduate Adjunct - MFAC
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Tae Keller is the Newbery award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of When You Trap a Tiger and The Science of Breakable Things. She grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she subsisted on kimchi, purple rice, and stories. Now, she writes about biracial girls trying to find their voices, and lives in Seattle with her husband and a multitude of books.
 

Middle grade

When You Trap a Tiger, by MFAC faculty member Tae Keller

When You Trap a Tiger

Random House Books for Young Readers, 2020

  • Winner of the Newbery Medal
  • Winner of the Boston Globe Horn Book Honor Award for Fiction and Poetry
  • Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Children's Literature
  • New York Times #1 Bestseller

Other middle grade

  • Mihi Ever After: Off the Rails 
    Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2024

  • Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone
    Random House Books for Young Readers, 2022

  • Mihi Ever After 
    Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2022

  • The Science of Breakable Things
    Yearling, 2019