Home About the Festival Program Schedule Featured Speakers Sponsors Vendors Photo Galleries © 2007. All rights reserved. Contact the Webmaster	Sara Zarr is the acclaimed author of three novels for young adults: Story of a Girl, Sweethearts, and Once Was Lost. She also wrote three not-so-acclaimed novels before those, which have fortunately never been published. Sara has contributed short fiction and essays to the anthologies “Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?”, “Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd,” and “Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female & Evangelical.” Her novels have variously been named to the ALA Best Books for Young Adults, ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, Oprah Kids Book Club, Tayshas Reading List, International Reading Association Choices, Capitol Choices, and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age. Story of a Girl was a finalist for the Utah Book Award and National Book Award; Sweethearts was a finalist for the Cybil Award and Utah Book Award. Sara lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband. Visit the Author's Website Nick Abadzis  |  Cassandra Clare  |  Melissa Marr  |  Shirlene Obuobi  |  Joy Preble  |  Charles Shields