Wanted: Authors whose names begin with Q and X

I am 12 and love reading. I am doing a voluntary project for school to read a book written by authors with surnames from every letter of the alphabet. I have read up to the letter U at the moment, but have missed out Q as as I canot find an author with a surname beginning with Q who has written books for my age group. I am also struggling to find an author whose surname begns with the letter X. Please could you give me some advice? Thank you for taking the time to help me - Eve (age 12) I love this idea and am immediately devising my own A-Z. To fill in your gap, I'd suggest KAS Quinn's The Queen Must Die - a terrific story of a feisty Victorian girl who gets to meet the Queen. Katie Berger-Jones-Burg is a perfectly ordinary girl living in the present day. Or at least she was until suddenly she is sent back in time and finds herself becoming best friends with Queen Victoria's own daughter, Princess Alice. Full of detail about the times and with a mystery at the heart of it, this is a very enjoyable book, exactly for your age group – as well being written by an author whose name begins with Q! For X, you could try the Chinese writer Xinran, who writes about the lives of women in China and Tibet Try The Good Women of China or Sky Burial for a glimpse into lives that seem quite unbelievably hard to us here and now. But Xinran's books might be a bit old for you, so if anyone can make other suggestions, please email them to us at [email protected]