Karina Yan Glaser

Karina Yan Glaser is an American author. She is best known for the seven-volume children's fiction series The Vanderbeekers, about a family with five children and several pets living in Harlem. By the time of the final book's release in 2023, the Vanderbeekers books had sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 13 languages. The first book in the series was named one of The New York Times Book Review's notable children's books for 2017, and the second book in the series appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list for middle-grade children's books. Glaser's 2025 book The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli was a New York Times Best Seller and was recognized as a Newbery Honor book.