Laura Parnum is the author of the award-winning middle grade novel Peril at Price Manor and The Haunting of Bellington Cottage, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Her stories blend humor and heart with a touch of horror. When she’s not writing, she’s editing other people’s stories and helping out at local elementary school libraries. She currently serves as Co-Regional Advisor for the Eastern Pennsylvania region of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Laura lives with her family in Philadelphia. They have a turtle that bites and a snake that doesn’t.