Celebrity Corner

• AN INTERVIEW WITH CARTOONIST GAVIN AUNG THAN Calling fans of Captain Underpants and Hilo! Sidekicks are SUPER in this humor-and action-packed graphic novel series. Expect bugs, well-read dinosaurs, and lots of goo! The Super Sidekicks just saved the world! And now they've been invited to join HERO: The Heroic Earth Righteousness Organization. It's the most exclusive club for the planet's most famous superheroes. (No big deal!) But before they can become members, they must pass the hardest challenge in the universe--a test so scary only the truly heroic can survive. inteview

• AN INTERVIEW WITH VICTORIA YING Victoria Ying is a developmental artist whose clients include Disney Studios and SONY, among others. She has worked on major films such as Frozen, Tangled, Big Hero 6, Moana, and Wreck-It Ralph. She also is illustrating DC's new middle-grade Wonder Woman graphic novel series, Diana: Princess of the Amazons. City of Secrets is her first original graphic novel. inteview

• AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR SHEELA CHARI Sheela Chari is the author of Finding Mighty and Vanished, an Edgar Award finalist. She lives with her family in New York. inteview

• AN INTERVIEW WITH LISA MOORE RAMEE Lisa Moore Ramée was born and raised in Los Angeles, and she now lives in the Bay Area of California, with her husband, two kids, and two obnoxious cats. A Good Kind of Trouble was her debut novel. inteview

• AN INTERVIEW WITH KIM BAKER Kim Baker’s Bio: Kim's first book, Pickle, has been selected for many reading lists and was a finalist for the CBC Children's Choice Book of the Year and the Texas Bluebonnet Award. When she was 13, she lived above an old movie theater and drove a rusty VW van for odd jobs. Now she and her family live in Seattle near beaches and tide pools, but usually far from bears.  inteview