Meet the author

Lisa Yee.

Writer · United States · b. 1959

Lisa Yee: the Newbery Honor-winning author whose Misfits caper series turns a school of oddball crime-fighters into fast, funny adventures about belonging for 8-12s.

Lisa Yee (born 1959) is an American author with more than twenty books to her name, from her Sid Fleischman Humor Award-winning debut Millicent Min, Girl Genius to the Newbery Honor-winning Maizy Chen's Last Chance. In the corpus she is represented by The Misfits, a fast, funny caper series illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat, in which Olive Cobin Zang lands at RASCH, an art school on a former prison island that secretly trains a squad of young crime-fighters. Across A Royal Conundrum, A Copycat Conundrum and A Sea Monster Conundrum, Yee turns heists, mysteries and a captive sea monster into warm, wisecracking adventures about belonging and the idea that the things making you different are exactly what make you unstoppable. A reliable, high-energy read for 8-12s.