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J. Anderson Coats has received five Junior Library Guild selections, two Washington State Book Awards, and earned starred reviews from Kirkus, School Library Journal, the Horn Book Review, and Shelf Awareness. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Junior Library Guild Selection!

The Loss of the Burying Ground is a Junior Library Guild selection! Come for the pirates, stay for the difficult work of finding common ground with someone you’ve always been told is the enemy. Coming your way in September from Candlewick Press!

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“Charming. We're going to be murdered in our beds.”
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“Even better. We're going to be murdered in our beds by infidels.”
J. Anderson Coats, The Wicked and the Just

“God save me ere I have any babies. They are grabby, clingy creatures who steal your figure and always want a ribbon or a wooden sword. And who sometimes make you die bearing them.”
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