Nancy Tandon loves to share stories that entertain and encourage young readers. Her debut middle grade novel, The Way I Say It (Charlesbridge) was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, an Indies Introduce and Kids’ Indies Next pick, a Georgia and Maryland Book Award nominee and an Indiana Read Aloud selection.

She is also the author of The Ghost of Spruce Point (Aladdin), nominated for the Texas Bluebonnet and Hawaii Nēnē state book awards, and the "eerie and entertaining" (SLJ) companion novel, The Haunting of Walker Pond (Aladdin).

Nancy is a former teacher, speech-language pathologist, and adjunct professor of phonetics and child language development, all of which helped plant seeds for stories about awesome kids doing brave things. A transplant from the Midwest, Nancy now lives in Connecticut and is a fan of literacy outreach programs of all kinds.