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manda Cleary Eastep is the senior developmental editor at Moody Publishers, Chicago, and the author of the Tree Street Kids series for middle grade readers 8-12. She also enjoys writing young adult fiction for Brio magazine (Focus on the Family). Amanda writes and edits in a cabin in the mountains of western North Carolina, but she lived most of her life in the suburbs of Chicago, the home of the Tree Street Kids. The joy of exploring and stewarding nature are central to her stories and her daily life. To nurture that, she is currently taking courses in the ecosystem of Southern Appalachia and loves the opportunity to see its native plants and critters up close. Amanda and her husband, Dan, have eight grown children, lots of grandchildren, and a border collie named Annie who wakes Amanda up early to write. L’Engle and C.S. Lewis for dashing her mother’s hopes of having a brain surgeon for a
daughter.) Amanda writes in a cabin in the mountains of western North Carolina, but
she lived most of her life in the Chicago suburbs.
She and her husband Dan have eight grown children and a holler full of wild critters. Aside from gathering around the table with her family to eat and laugh, she finds no greater joy than meeting the Creator in His creation. Her sixth book for young readers, Jack and the Red Giant (Moody Publishers), releases in August 2025.
manda Cleary Eastep is the senior developmental editor at Moody Publishers, Chicago, and the author of the Tree Street Kids series for middle grade readers 8-12. She also enjoys writing young adult fiction for Brio magazine (Focus on the Family). Amanda writes and edits in a cabin in the mountains of western North Carolina, but she lived most of her life in the suburbs of Chicago, the home of the Tree Street Kids. The joy of exploring and stewarding nature are central to her stories and her daily life. To nurture that, she is currently taking courses in the ecosystem of Southern Appalachia and loves the opportunity to see its native plants and critters up close. Amanda and her husband, Dan, have eight grown children, lots of grandchildren, and a border collie named Annie who wakes Amanda up early to write.
middle grade readers 8-12. She also enjoys writing young adult fiction for Brio magazine (Focus on the Family). Amanda writes and edits in a cabin in the mountains of western North Carolina, but she lived most of her life in the suburbs of Chicago, the home of the Tree Street Kids. The joy of exploring and stewarding nature are central to her stories and her daily life. To nurture that, she is currently taking courses in the ecosystem of Southern Appalachia and loves the opportunity to see its native plants and critters up close. Amanda and her husband, Dan, have eight grown children, lots of grandchildren, and a border collie named Annie who wakes Amanda up early to write.
at Moody Publishers, Chicago, and the author of the Tree Street Kids series for middle grade readers 8-12. She also enjoys writing young adult fiction for Brio magazine (Focus on the Family). Amanda writes and edits in a cabin in the mountains of western North Carolina, but she lived most of her life in the suburbs of Chicago, the home of the Tree Street Kids. The joy of exploring and stewarding nature are central to her stories and her daily life. To nurture that, she is currently taking courses in the ecosystem of Southern Appalachia and loves the opportunity to see its native plants and critters up close. Amanda and her husband, Dan, have eight grown children, lots of grandchildren, and a border collie named Annie who wakes Amanda up early to write.
