Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of 17 published and forthcoming books, including Jumpstart the World, Second Hand Heart, Becoming Chloe, Love in the Present Tense, The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance, Chasing Windmills, The Day I Killed James, Diary of a Witness, and When I Found You.

Her best-known novel, Pay It Forward, was adapted into a major motion picture, chosen by the American Library Association for its Best Books for Young Adults list, and translated into more than 23 languages for distribution in over 30 countries. The mass market paperback was a national bestseller.  It is still in print, and was rereleased in a trade paperback edition in 2010.

Forthcoming are Don’t Let Me Go and When You Were Older.

Learn more about Catherine at her website www.catherineryanhyde.com, her Facebook profile www.facebook.com/crhyde, her Facebook author page www.facebook.com/pages/Catherine-Ryan-Hyde/55974126195, or on Twitter http://twitter.com/cryanhyde