Marta Acosta is creator of the hilarious Casa Dracula series.
The list in my case, for Young Adult Literature, was surprisingly short, perhaps 14 or as a consequence. He was born in a small village in Western Galilee, but with the Israeli occupation of Palestine his family moved to Lebanon. http://Gyeongshin.com/ksen/bbs/board.php?bo_table=free&wr_id=1377778