S. A. Bodeen is an American children's and young adult book author. She is best known for her young adult science fiction novels The Compound and The Gardener, and books for children and adults like A Small Brown Dog with a Wet Pink Nose and for her picture books about Elizabeti, a young Tanzanian girl. The first book in the series, Elizabeti's Doll, won the 1999 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award from the New York Public Library, and was named a Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Commended Title. Vikipedi