Jacqueline Adams

Jacqueline Adams is a full-time freelance writer who lives in Ohio with her husband, daughter, and son. She is the author of more than 140 leveled readers for Heinemann, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, and SRA/McGraw-Hill; three reference books for Lucent Books; and more than 200 articles and short stories for such magazines as Scholastic's Science World and SuperScience, Highlights for Children, Cricket, Spider, Ladybug, Odyssey, and Read. Her work won the 2003 and 2005 Highlights for Children Fiction Contests and the 2004 Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Magazine Merit Award for Nonfiction. In 2011, she was selected as one of ten journalists to participate in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship. In her writing endeavors, she enjoys the constant support of four office assistants--two canine and two feline.