Bonnie ShimkoBonnie Shimko is an American author of five young adult novels.BiographyAfter thirty-three years of teaching second grade, Bonnie Shimko retired and began writing. Her first novel, Letters in the Attic, won a Lambda Literary Award for children's/young adult fiction in 2002. Shimko lives in Plattsburgh, New York.WorksLetters in the Attic Kat's Promise The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye You Know What You Have to Do ''Stony Lonesome Road''