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Francesco Sedita

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24 featured books

Francesco Sedita was born on March 18 on Mott Street in the Little Italy section of New York, New York, to two native New Yorkers. Sedita studied writing at the Gallatin School of New York University. "It's this incredible multi-disciplinary program that allowed me to study many aspects of writing, including screenwriting, fiction, and theatrical writing," he says. While at Gallatin, he was a Writing Fellow for Saturday Night Live. After graduating, he wrote and directed a show that ran Off-Off Broadway for 5 years. He is now the Creative Director at major children's book publisher. Miss Popularity is his first book. Francesco has been writing since the second grade. "I wrote and illustrated a story about a dog named Blackie. My next-door neighbor read it, and when she told me how much she liked it, I realized right then that I wanted to be a writer. I love to tell people stories," he says. When he was in college, he focused on writing comedy, and even did stand-up for a time. In graduate school, he focused on writing literary fiction. "Miss Popularity seemed like a strange direction for me at first, but it was an editorial director at Scholastic who made me realize it was the book I was born to write!" says Francesco. "We were discussing the idea of a character who comes to a musty old school and totally transforms it with her personality and fashion sense, and we both had a really good laugh. And then a day or two later, I was walking down the street and the entire story came to me in a flash-I emailed my editor right away, and Cassie Knight was born!" Francesco Sedita lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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  • Legend of the Lost Boy

    Representative edition published 2022

    Open Work
  • La maldición de la cueva de cristal

    Representative edition published 2022

    Open Work
  • La maledicció de la cova de cristall

    Representative edition published 2022

    Open Work
  • The Curse of the Crystal Cavern

    Representative edition published 2021

    Open Work
  • El misterio de la Torre de la Luna

    Representative edition published 2021

    Open Work
  • El misteri de la Torre de la Lluna

    Representative edition published 2021

    Open Work
  • The Mystery of the Moon Tower

    Representative edition published 2020

    Open Work
  • Where Is Broadway?

    Representative edition published 2019

    Open Work
  • The Twelve Mehs of Christmas by Gudetama

    Representative edition published 2019

    Open Work
  • The Golden Girls

    Representative edition published 2018

    Open Work
  • Eggsistential Thoughts by Gudetama the Lazy Egg

    Representative edition published 2017

    Open Work
  • The Golden Girls Mad Libs

    Representative edition published 2017

    Open Work
  • La nouvelle

    Representative edition published 2012

    Open Work
  • Spaceheadz

    Representative edition published 2011

    Open Work
  • Miss Popularity and the best friend disaster

    Representative edition published 2011

    Open Work
  • Miss Popularity Goes Camping

    Representative edition published 2009

    Open Work
  • Miss Popularity (Miss Popularity #1)

    Representative edition published 2007

    Open Work
  • Miss Popularity (Miss Popularity #1)

    Representative edition published 2007

    Open Work
  • This Is the First Book I Will Read to You

    Representative edition published 2025

    Open Work
  • You Lift Me Up

    Representative edition published 2025

    Open Work
  • Our Italian Christmas Eve

    Representative edition published 2023

    Open Work
  • Golden Rules

    Representative edition published 2019

    Open Work
  • Give My Regards to Mad Libs

    Representative edition published 2016

    Open Work
  • Candy Apple

    Representative edition published 2010

    Open Work