Teri Kanefield

Teri Kanefield is a lawyer and the author of The Girl from the Tar Paper School, The Extraordinary Suzy Wright, the Making of America series, and more. Her awards include the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award and the Carter G. Woodson Book Award. She lives in San Luis Obispo on the central California coast.

Teri Kanefield's Titles

Rebels, Robbers, and Radicals The Story of the Bill of Rights

Rebels, Robbers, and Radicals

Meet the rebels, robbers, radicals, determined teenagers, and ordinary Americans who shaped our Constitutional rights. The first ten amendments...


Thurgood Marshall The Making of America #6

Thurgood Marshall

This biography for young readers examines the life of a brilliant lawyer who successfully argued the case that ended legal racial segregation...


Franklin D. Roosevelt The Making of America #5

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Award-winning author Teri Kanefield's biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt for young readers is the inspiring story of one of America's greatest...


Susan B. Anthony The Making of America #4

Susan B. Anthony

In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, a Susan B. Anthony biography for young readers, award-winning author Teri Kanefield...


Abraham Lincoln The Making of America #3

Abraham Lincoln

Award-winning author Teri Kanefield's biography of Abraham Lincoln for young readers is the story of the man widely considered America's greatest...


Andrew Jackson The Making of America #2

Andrew Jackson

A 2018 Grateful American Book Prize Honorable Mention?!Andrew Jacksontells the story of one of our most controversial presidents. Born in the...


Alexander Hamilton The Making of America #1

Alexander Hamilton

Award-winning author Teri Kanefield's biography of Alexander Hamilton for young readers is the first in the Making of America series. The America...


Extraordinary Suzy Wright A Colonial Woman on the Frontier

The Extraordinary Suzy Wright

Children are taught much about the men who shaped early America, but history-shaping colonial women remain largely unknown and undiscussed. The...


Girl from the Tar Paper School Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

The Girl from the Tar Paper School

Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on Washington, there was Barbara Rose Johns, a teenager...