Meet Patricia Reilly Giff

[close] "If you're going to be a writer," says bestselling children's author Patricia Reilly Giff, "you have to be nosy." That is why Dawn Bosco, the hero of her beloved Polk Street Mysteries series, "wants to be a spy." Giff wants kids to cultivate and nourish their inquisitive sides; reading and writing, she insists, are perfect ways to do that.

Find out how Giff achieved her dream of becoming a writer and what other advice she gives to readers. Even adults can learn something from this celebrated children's author!