Audrey Vernick
Audrey Vernick is an American children's book author whose works include many featuring lesser-known figures in baseball history, including Larry Doby, Edith Houghton, Effa Manley, Max Patkin, and the Acerra brothers. Selected works 

 Scanlon, Liz Garton & Audrey Vernick. The World's Best Class Plant. Putnam, 2023. Illustrated by Lynnor Bontigao. . Awards

 California Young Reader Medal (2015 for Brothers at Bat, illustrated by Steven Salerno)
 Amelia Bloomer Book (2017, for The Kid From Diamond Street)

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Living people
American children's writers
21st-century American women writers
American women children's writers
Year of birth missing (living people)