Rachel Ann Nunes learned to read when she was four, beginning a lifetime fascination with the written word. She avidly devoured books then and still reads everything she can lay hands on, from children’s stories to science articles. She began writing in the seventh grade and is now the author of twenty-seven published books.Her novel The Independence Club was a finalist for the 2007 Whitney Award.Rachel and her husband, TJ, have six children and live in Utah. She writes Monday through Friday in a home office, often with a child on her lap. She takes frequent breaks from writing to build Lego towers, practice phonics, or jump on the trampoline with the kids.