Ali Benjamin is the co-writer for HIV-positive teen Paige Rawl’s coming-of-age memoir, Positive, as well as Tim Howard’s New York Times bestseller The Keeper. She is a member of New England Science Writers and has written for the Boston Globe Magazine, Martha Stewart’s Whole Living, and Sesame Street. In her debut, the children’s book The Thing About Jellyfish (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), after her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy was a rare jellyfish sting. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory–even if it means traveling the globe, alone. In its starred review, School Library Journal writes, “…readers…will fully immerse themselves in this superbly written, heartfelt novel.”
NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2015