The “Berrybrook Middle School” series of novels by Svetlana Chmakova is a set of brilliant stories that explore the difficulty of dealing with choices and emotions during the teenage years. She has won several awards over the years including making the list of Library Journal’s Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2015. She is also the author of “Nightschool,” the award-winning urban fantasy and wrote the manga adaptation of the “Witch & Wizard,” that would become a New York Times bestselling title. Her most popular work was “Dramacon,” the romantic comedy that went on to become a fan favorite. Svetlana is what you would call an accidental writer and artist even though she was always interested in toy designs, how to draw, manga and comics and had also written and drawn for animation. She then earned her Classical Animation diploma at Sheridan College. The author was born and brought up in Russia but as a sixteen year old she moved to Canada where she finished her schooling. The author has more than ten works to her name that have been translated into more than a dozen languages. The “Berrybrook Middle School” series of novels are written by award winning and internationally published comic/manga author Svetlana Chmakova.
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