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Todd Strasser
is the author of more than one hundred novels for teens and middle graders including the best-selling Help! I'm Trapped In … series. His novels for older teens include
The Accident, The Wave, Give a Boy a Gun,
and
Can't Get There from Here
. Todd and his kids have surfed Hawaii, California, and the eastern seaboard from Florida to New York.

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