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Brianna and Brittany Winner, also know as the Winner Twins, are multiple award-winning young American authors who wrote the fictional series of novels entitled the Strand series. They have won multiple awards for the first book in the series titled The Strand Prophecy including the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Adolescent Fiction. They also opened a nonprofit company Motivate 2 Learn that aims to inspire young children to read, write and overcome any obstacles they may face in order to achieve their dreams.

Biography
Brianna and Brittany Winner are twins who were born eleven weeks premature and spent much of their early childhood in and out of hospitals. At an early age they fell in love with science fiction books and super hero comics. They created worlds, characters and adventures to escape their difficulties in school. At the end of fourth grade both girls had college-level comprehension, vocabularies and verbal acuity and were diagnosed with dyslexia, dysgraphia, diminished visual acuity and tracking and more. . Their father recognized their story telling abilities and stepped in telling them that they could do the impossible, write a novel, if they focused on their strengths and passion for storytelling. Their first novel, The Strand Prophecy, was finished when they were twelve years old and won multiple awards including Best Adolescent Fiction. They are the Youngest Multiple Award Winning Authors in America. The Strand Prophecy was distributed nationally to all Barnes and Nobel stores when they were thirteen. Brianna and Brittany regularly attend book signings, book fairs, comic cons and industry trade shows.

Motivate 2 Learn
As the twins began talking to other kids they began to realize that many other kids/students suffer from learning disabilities including ADD, ADHD, dyslexia and more. It became apparent to both sisters that many of these disabilities, such as lack of self esteem, can create challenges that threaten to defeat the kids/students because of the obstacles they face. They realized they could inspire these students by openly admitting to their own disabilities and challenges they faced growing up and free themselves and the students from the fears and self-doubt. Throughout the 2008-2010 school years the twins have reached out to over 75,000 students to promote reading, writing, and the means to overcome challenges. They have provided all this without charge and have donated books, teachers' manuals, posters and more to classrooms and libraries.

They created Motivate 2 Learn (M2L) as a charitable foundation that focuses on providing students with the motivation to read, write, and overcome any obstacles. The Winner twins motivate the students at schools through a multimedia presentation they have created. This presentation consists of a ten foot video screen, music, stage lighting, wireless microphones and an elaborate presentation that includes the twins interviewing an animated character.

The twins have a goal to reach out to 1,000,000 students and have established Motivate 2 Learn, a nonprofit corporation, to assist in raising the capital to help them reach this goal. Motivate 2 Learn has been contacted by schools across the country to book the twins live performance "If You Can Dream It, You Can Write It". Motivate 2 Learn also donates books, teacher's guides, assistive learning technologies such as Speech to Text hardware and software, motivational posters and other items to each school it visits.

In the Media
The Winner twins have appeared on numerous print publications, radio and television shows including NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Wall Street Journal, AOL front page, and many more.

Strand Series

 * 1) The Strand Prophecy, Howler Publishing, March 2008
 * 2) Strand Book II - Extinction's Embrace, Howler Publishing, September 2011
 * 3) Strand Book III - Red Moon Rising, Not yet released

Other Books

 * 1) The Winner Twins Secret Method of Writing