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Meg Cabot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    • Shelby Tomlinson
      Shelby Tomlinson on 25 Apr 11
       
      Haven't read Allie Finkle books at all
    • Shelby Tomlinson
      Shelby Tomlinson on 25 Apr 11
       
      From the 1-800 series down, I haven't read any of these.
    • Shelby Tomlinson
      Shelby Tomlinson on 02 May 11
       
      The first book she ever wrote and published was Where Roses Grow Wild.
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    • Shelby Tomlinson
      Shelby Tomlinson on 02 May 11
       
      She has no kids, and the first book she wrote was The Princess Diaries.
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  • She has written and published over fifty books, and is best known for The Princess Diaries, later made by Walt Disney Pictures into two feature films of the same name.
  • Meg's books have been the recipients of numerous awards, including the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, the American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, the Tennessee Volunteer State TASL Book Award, the Book Sense Pick, the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, the IRA/CBC Young Adult Choice - as well as many others (see awards section for specific book wins).
  • She has had numerous #1 New York Times bestsellers.Cabot has more than fifteen million copies of her books—children's, young adult, and adult—in print worldwide.
  • Meg Cabot at a book signing
  • Born Meggin Patricia Cabot February 1, 1967 (1967-02-01) (age 44) Bloomington, Indiana, United States
  • Pen name Meggin Cabot Patricia Cabot Jenny Carroll
  • Meg Cabot (born Meggin Patricia Cabot on February 1, 1967 in Bloomington, Indiana, United States[1][2]) is an American author of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults and used to write under several pen names, but now writes exclusively under her real name, Meg Cabot.
  • Nationality American
  • Period 1998–present
  • Genres Chick-lit, Mystery, Romance, Science fiction
  • Notable work(s) The Princess Diaries Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls The Mediator
  • Personal life
  • After Meg graduated from Indiana University, Cabot moved to New York City, with the original aim of pursuing a career as an illustrator.[1][2] in 1991.
  • she soon quit this job and started working as an assistant manager of the freshman dormitory at New York University.[1][2]
  • Meg Cabot married financial writer and poet Benjamin D. Egnatz on April 1, 1993. Their wedding date,[3] April Fool’s Day, was a deliberate play on her husband's belief that only fools get married in the first place. The wedding was actually an elopement in Italy. Her novel Every Boy's Got One is loosely based on her own elopement. She has two cats, Henrietta (a one eyed cat) and Gem, about whom she often blogs.
  • After living in Indiana, California, New York, and France, she now currently resides in Key West, Florida. She splits her time between an apartment in New York City and a barn in Bloomington, Indiana.[5]
  • Children's novels
  • Allie Finkle series
  • Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls: Moving Day (March 2008)
  • Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: The New Girl (August 2008)
  • Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Best Friends and Drama Queens (March 2009)
  • Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Stage Fright (September 2009)
  • Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Glitter Girls and the Great Fake Out (March 2010) Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Blast From the Past (September 2010)
  • The Allie Finkle series chronicles the challenges Allie Finkle faces when she moves away and becomes the new girl in school, as well as dealing with snobs and other difficulties associated with growing up. Allie confronts these issues by making rules to live by, which helps her find out who she really is.
  • Young adult novels
  • The Princess Diaries series
  • The Princess Diaries series is the most notable series written by Meg Cabot, and has been published in more than 40 countries.
  • The first book in the series was published in October 2000; the series spent 38 weeks on the New York Times Children's Series Best Sellers List and was sold to publishers in 37 foreign countries.
  • Volume VIII: Princess on the Brink / The Princess Diaries: After Eight (January 2007) Volume IX: Princess Mia / The Princess Diaries: To The Nines (January 2008) Volume X: Forever Princess / The Princess Diaries: Ten Out Of Ten (January 6, 2009)
  • Note that in the UK and Australia the books are published under titles based on the volume number (e.g.: Mia Goes Fourth).
  • The Princess Diaries, Volume I / The Princess Diaries (October 2000)
  • Volume II: Princess in the Spotlight / The Princess Diaries: Take Two (June 2001)
  • Volume III: Princess in Love / The Princess Diaries: Third Time Lucky (March 2002) Volume IV: Princess in Waiting / The Princess Diaries: Mia Goes Fourth (April 2003) Volume IV and 1/2: Project Princess (August 2003)
  • Volume V: Princess in Pink / The Princess Diaries: Give Me Five (March 2004) Volume VI: Princess in Training / The Princess Diaries: Sixsational (March 2005) Volume VI and 1/2: The Princess Present (October 2004)
  • Volume VII: Party Princess / The Princess Diaries: Seventh Heaven (March 2006) Volume VII and 1/2: Sweet Sixteen Princess (May 2006) Volume VII and 3/4: Valentine Princess (December 2006)
  • In 2001 and 2004 respectively, the series was brought to the big screen by Walt Disney Pictures as The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews.
  • Illustrated by Chelsey McLaren:
  • Princess Lessons (March 2003) Perfect Princess (March 2004) Holiday Princess (November 2005) On January 6, 2009, a companion book to Vol
  • e name Princess of Genovia, Mia Thermopolis by Avon Books, the adult division of HarperCollins, the Princess Diaries series publisher. All author proceeds from the novel, which was printed on 100% recycled paper, go to Greenpeace.
  • entitled "Ransom My Heart" was published under th
  • ume X: Forever Princess
  • The Mediator series
  • Shadowland (October 2000)
  • Ninth Key (February 2001) Reunion (July 2001) Darkest Hour (December 2001) Haunted (February 2003) Twilight (January 2005)
  • The Mediator Series is about a 16-year-old girl named Susannah "Suze" Simon. Suze is a mediator, whose role is to help ghosts finish their business on earth so they can pass on to the afterlife. To this end, she can see, touch, communicate with, hit, punch, and 'kick ghost butt' when she has to. The series begins just after Suze's widowed mother marries Andy Ackerman, when she has moved to Carmel, California, to live in an old house complete with three stepbrothers. To make matters worse, her bedroom is haunted by an attractive male ghost named Jesse de Silva, who died 150 years earlier. Suze remembers that back in New York a fortune teller had told her that she was a mediator (which proved correct) and that she would only fall in love once but it would last for an eternity. Her one love for eternity just might be Jesse. But does he love her back?
  • The first four books were originally released under the pseudonym Jenny Carroll (this was when Cabot was working with different publishing houses). Haunted was the first title to have Meg Cabot's name on it. The first four books were later reprinted under Cabot's real name in 2005 with new cover art when Twilight was released in hardcover. The UK titles for the series were as follows: Shadowland- Love you to Death, Ninth Key- High Stakes, Reunion- Mean Spirits, Darkest Hour- Young Blood, Haunted- Grave Doubts, and Twilight- Heaven Sent.[7] The Mediator series rights have been sold to producer Julia Pistor, and will be made into a movie in the near future. In 2010, HarperTeen announced it will be reprinting the series in omnibus editions, to be published in 2011.
  • Airhead (May 2008) Being Nikki (May 2009) Runaway (March 2010) This three-book series is about Emerson Watts, and overachieving high school student. When she wakes up, after an accident, she discovers that her brain has been transplanted into the body of teen supermodel, Nikki Howard. Now, she is no longer judged by her grades, but by her looks and she has to fight the worldwide corporation, Stark Industries, if she wants to find out what really happened to her old life and to protect her friends and family.
  • This series revolves around Jessica Mastriani, an ordinary 16-year-old girl given extraordinary psychic powers after being struck by lightning. Her powers allow her to know the exact location of missing children; after seeing a picture of a person, they appear in her dreams. The first four books take place over less than a year, and chronicle her attempts to help missing children while trying to avoid the scrutiny of the federal government. The fifth book, published four years after the fourth book, picks up the story line after Jess has turned 19. Over the course of the books, Jess is romantically involved with Rob Wilkins, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.
  • The first four books were written under Cabot's pseudonym, Jenny Carroll. After poor sales, the series was discontinued. Sales improved when the books were re-released in 2004 under Cabot's real name. Cabot was unhappy with the discontinuation; she stated that she wanted to take the series up to eight books. Her current publishing house agreed to publish one more installment. Missing You was released in December 2006 and ended the series. The 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU series was the basis for the television show Missing, which aired on the Lifetime cable network for three seasons from 2003 to 2006.[6] The series has been reprinted in the US in an omnibus edition, and retitled Vanished.
  • All-American Girl series All American Girl (September 2002) Ready or Not: An All-American Girl Novel (July 2005)
  • The series revolves around Samantha Madison, a Washington, D.C. native, who, while skipping her after-school art class, saves the life of the president, and becomes a national hero. The two books are about her rise to fame and her love life with the president's son, David, who appears to want to take th
  • eir relationship to the next level in the second book. There is also a short story called Another All American Girl in the anthology Our White House:Looking In, Looking Out, about Samantha's experience in the White House. [edit] Avalon High series
  • Avalon High, December 2005 Avalon High: Coronation (three-book manga series) The Merlin Prophecy (July 3, 2007) Homecoming (June 24, 2008) Hunter's Moon (September 1, 2009)
  • There is a sequel to the first Avalon High novel. However, instead of a regular novel, it is part of a new partnership HarperCollins brokered with Tokyopop (a leading United States manga company). It has been released as a three-book manga series, called Avalon High: Coronation. The first manga, titled The Merlin Prophecy, was released on July 3, 2007 and was drawn by manga artist Jinky Coronado, who does the Banzai Girl manga. She also illustrated the other two manga. The Avalon High film was shown on Disney Channel on November 12, 2010. Britt Robertson played Ellie, while Gregg Sulkin played Will.
  • The Airhead trilogy
  • 1-800-WHERE-R-U series When Lightning Strikes (February 2001) Code Name Cassandra (August 2001) Safe House (March 2002) Sanctuary (September 2002) Missing You (December 26, 2006)
  • The Abandon Trilogy Abandon (26 April 2011) TBA (TBA) TBA (TBA)
  • Blurb for the first book in the trilogy, Abandon: 'She knows what it's like to die. Now Death wants her back.
  • Seventeen-year-old Pierce knows what happens to us when we die. That's how she met John Hayden, the mysterious stranger who's made returning to normal life—or at least life as Pierce knew it before the accident—next to impossible. Though she thought she escaped him—starting a new school in a whole new place—it turns out she was wrong. He finds her. What does John want from her? Pierce thinks she knows... just like she knows he's no guardian angel, and his dark world isn't exactly heaven. But she can't stay away from him, either, especially since he's always there when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most. But if she lets herself fall any further, she might find herself back in the place she fears the most. And when Pierce discovers the shocking truth, that’s exactly where John sweeps her: The Underworld.'
  • Other young adult fiction
  • Nicola and the Viscount (August 2002) Victoria and the Rogue (March 2003) Teen Idol (July 2004) How to Be Popular (July 2006) Pants on Fire/Tommy Sullivan is a Freak (May 2007) Jinx (July 2007)
  • Adult Novels
  • Insatiable series
  • The first book in Meg's latest series for adult readers, Insatiable, was released on June 8, 2010, and became an instant New York Times bestseller. This series is a modern retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula, but with a twist. The main character, Meena Harper, has a special gift: she can foretell people's death . . . just not her own. Even worse, she's being forced by the television show for which she works to write vampires into the plot due to their popularity. Meena, however, hates vampires (she doesn't believe in them, and doesn't like how they always go after—and kill girls). This complicates things when she finds out from Alaric Wulf, a demon-hunter with a secret unit of the Vatican called the Palatine Guard, that vampires are attacking girls all over her native New York City, and that her new boyfriend might be one of them . . . Lucien Antonescu, Dracula's son, the Prince of Darkness. A sequel to Insatiable called Overbite[8] will be out in the US in July 2011. In the UK the title is referred to as "Craving."
  • Heather Wells series Size 12 is Not Fat, December 27, 2005 Size 14 is Not Fat Either, November 28, 2006 Big Boned, December 26, 2007
  • The Heather Wells series is an adult mystery series that features former pop star Heather Wells. Heather was once a teen star, but was fired by her recording company when she asked to sing songs she had written instead of the ones they composed for her. The book opens just after Heather has gotten a job as a residence house coordinator at New York College and quickly discovers that young girls in the dorm are being murdered. The second book was originally titled Phat Chick, but this was changed by the publishers to It's Not Over Until The Size 12 Chick Sings, and finally, Size 14 is Not Fat Either, which continued Heather's amateur sleuthing adventures. The third book in the series is published under the title "Size Doesn't Matter" in Australia and Great Britain. (In other countries, such as the U.S. and Canada, it was entitled "Big Boned".) In 'Size Doesn't Matter', Heather solves another mystery, and is involved in a love triangle with Tad, her boyfriend, and Cooper, whom she secretly loves, but rejected her. In March, 2008 the series was contracted for two additional books, which should be released in 2011 or 2012.
  • Queen of Babble series
  • Queen of Babble (May 2006) Queen of Babble in the Big City (June 2007) Queen of Babble Gets Hitched (June 2008/April 2009 - Paperback) Queen of Babble debuted at #27 on the New York Times Bestseller List. The main character of this romantic comedy, Lizzie Nichols, is a recent college grad who isn't sure what she wants out of life. All she knows is that she can't keep a secret, even her own. This causes her many romantic, friendship, and work-related problems, especially after moving to New York City after graduating from college. There, she can't seem to keep her mouth shut long enough not to screw up her dreams . . . but nothing is going to keep her from trying to find the career she's wanted. And maybe a boyfriend, too.
  • Romance novels
  • These novels were written under Cabot's pseudonym Patricia Cabot: Where Roses Grow Wild (March 1998) Portrait of My Heart (January 1999) An Improper Proposal (November 1999) A Little Scandal (June 2000) Lady of Skye (January 2001)
  • Educating Caroline (November 2001) Kiss the Bride (May 2002) Written under Cabot's characters Ransom My Heart (January 2009) - Written by Amelia "Mia" Thermopolis, Princess of Genovia with help from Meg Cabot
  • Boy series
  • The Boy Next Door, October 2002 (as Meggin Cabot) Boy Meets Girl, January 2004 (as Meggin Cabot) Every Boy's Got One, January 2005 These books are loosely connected romantic comedies told in emails, IMs, and brief journal entries. The Boy Next Door was a Kelly Rippa Book Club Pick on LIVE! with Regis and Kelly.
  • Other works She Went All the Way, December 2002 (as Meggin Cabot)
  • Short stories
  • Screenplays
  • Early versions of the screenplay for Disney's Ice Princess, released in 2005, were written by Meg Cabot
  • Film Adaptations
  • In 2001, the film version of the Princess Diaries was released. The film starred Anne Hathaway as Amelia "Mia" Thermopolis and Julie Andrews as Clarisse Renaldi. The Disney Channel original movie version of Avalon High premiered late fall 2010.[9] the film starred Gregg Sulkin as A. William Wagner and Britt Robertson as Allie Pennington (Ellie Harrison) An Untitled Queen Of Babble movie is currently In Development.[10] The book has been optioned by Jeffrey Sharp of Sharp Independent, with Kristen Bell slated to star.[11]
  • Awards
  • Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best British Isles Historical Romance, 1999, for An Improper Proposal Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers selection, Best Book selection, American Library Association, and New York Public Library Teen Book for the New Millennium citation, all 2001, all for The Princess Diaries Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination, best young adult category, Mystery Writers of America, 2003, for Safe House The Princess Diaries was voted "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of "The Big Read," British Broadcasting Corporation, 2003. Queen of Teen nomination (2008) for her work "Airhead" nominated for Teen Choice Book of the Year, 2009
  • Works by Meg Cabot (publication order)
  • ess Present (2004) • Princess in Training (2005) • Party Princess (2006) • Sweet Sixteen Princess (2006) • Valentine Princess (2006) Princess on the Brink (2007)
  • Princess Mia (2008) • Forever Princess (2009)
  • The Mediator novel series Shadowland (2000) • Ninth Key (2001) • Reunion (2001) • Darkest Hour (2001) • Haunted (2003) • Twilight (2004)
  • 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU novel series When Lightning Strikes (2001) • Code Name Cassandra (2001) • Safe House (2002) • Sanctuary (2002) • Missing You (2006)
  • All-American Girl novel series All American Girl (2002) • Ready or Not: An All-American Girl Novel (2005)
  • Avalon High novel series Avalon High (2005) • The Merlin Prophecy (2007 manga) • Homecoming (2008 manga) • Hunter's Moon (2009 manga)
  • Heather Wells novel series Size 12 is Not Fat (2006) • Size 14 is Not Fat Either (2006) • Big Boned (2007)
  • Queen of Babble novel series Queen of Babble (2006) • Queen of Babble in the Big City (2007) • Queen of Babble Gets Hitched (2008)
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  • Other novels Where Roses Grow Wild (1998) • Portrait of My Heart (1999) • An Improper Proposal (1999) • A Little Scandal (2000) • Lady of Skye (2000) • Educating Caroline (2001) • Kiss the Bride (2002) • Nicola and the Viscount (
  • Boy Meets Girl (2004) • Every Boy's Got One (2005) • How to Be Popular (2006) • Pants On Fire (2007) • Jinx (2007) Airhead (2008) Being Nikki (2009) Runaway (2010)
  • • "Allie Finklestine's Rules for Boys" (2006) • "Reunion" (2006) • "Cry, Linda, Cry: Judy Blume’s Blubber and The Cruelest Thing in the World" (Spring 2007) • "Ask Annie" (2007) • "The Exterminator's Daughter" (2007) • "Every Girl's Dream" (?)
  • Short stories: "The Christmas Captive" (2000) • "Girl’s Guide to New York through the Movies" (2003) • "Kate the Great" (2003) • "Party Planner" (2004) • "Connie "Hunter" Williams, Psychic Teacher" (2005)
  • MyrandaK (((: on 04 May 11
     
    i cant find anywhere where it says how many cats she has! i know she has them and qyite a few too i've lots of pics
justin moore

The Foxman by Gary Paulsen - 0 views

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  • Mr. Paulsen is a prolific writer who has given us many treasures, probably the best known of which is Hatchet (Penguin, 1988 ISBN 0-14-032724-X). His books often deal with a character in isolation who goes through a sort of rite of manhood through survival in that isolation. Gary Paulsen lives in northern Minnesota, and Foxman as well as many of his others are set in that area. While it deals with isolation, it is primarily a book about the horrors of war and the various ways we deal with it.
  • The book does have some sexual references although they are far from explicit. They are alluded to rather than experienced and they are not the focal poin
  • In Foxman the narrator and his cousin find the Foxman, a recluse with a horribly disfigured face, in a remote cabin in Northern Minnesota. The narrator has been sent to live with relatives in Minnesota because of the violence of his alcoholic parents. The relatives have accepted him and made a place for him in their lives, including him in the storytelling on winter evenings or, rather, including him in the audience for storytelling. It is two of the men who tell stories each night and their stories are always about their adventures in World War I. The audience is expected to laugh at many of them and the narrator finds nothing to laugh at, feeling instead the horror of war. As the boy's relationship with the Foxman grows, he becomes aware of the contrast between the Foxman's handling of the war experience and that of his two uncles.
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  • Things to Notice and Talk About
  • You'll want to focus on the Foxman as the book does. What caused his disfigurement? Notice the ways in which he deals with it, living away from society, hiding his face even hiding himself so that the boys don't have to look at him. Find examples of his behavior which show his constant awareness of his physical appearance. Imagine the horror of being horrible to look at.
  • Look at some of the minor characters here. The uncle is concerned about the boy. He asks if he is happy and if he knows the woods well enough now so that the uncle can relax a bit when the boy is gone for long periods of time. Does the uncle know about the Foxman?
  • What about the person who brings the supplies once a year to the Foxman? What does he/she know? How does that person deal with it? How was the routine established? Did the Foxman go to town once?
  • The Foxman says at one point, "Science kills beauty." What does he mean? What is his example of knowledge ruining wonder? What are some other examples? Talk about the effects on both boys of knowing the Foxman. Why is Carl's reaction different than his cousin's? What will change in the boy's life after this book? Will he stay in the north? with the family? alone? Will he go back to his alcoholic parents? Finally, there is the burning of the cabin with the Foxman and all he owns inside. Is that what Foxman wanted? Why did the boy take only the fox pelt? Was he right?
  • Another quote says that the storytellers are "plucking roses from manure." What about that one? Can you cite examples of it in the book and in life? There is violence throughout this anti-war novel. Pick out the references to it and debate their cause and effects. Speaking of alcoholism, investigate Alanon and Alateen. Could they have helped the boy? The battle of Verdun in World War I is talked about in the book. Find out what you can about it. We're hearing a lot about poison gas now in the Middle East. What was said about it then? Why was it outlawed? Can there be rules to war? Who makes the rules? The work on the farm is important to the book. Everyone does his or her share, even the animals. Talk about the draft horses. Do some research on the different breeds and their particular strengths. The cold plays a part in this story. He talks about the blue of cold. What does he mean? Frostbite is dealt with. Is rubbing snow on frostbite recommended? At one point the boy is freezing to death. Are his experiences consistent with those of real people in the cold? What about snow-blindness? Is it a real thing? Talk to an eye doctor about it. How would the author have known about such things?
  • A distinction is made in the book between killing and hunting animals. How do you feel about it? Is hunting still necessary? Is there a connection between the killing of animals and the killing during war in Foxman? Is trapping necessary? Why? Is there a humane trap? Contact animal rights organizations and furriers to get their sides of the debate. There are some pretty graphic descriptions in the book of preparing killed animals for food. Who prepares the meat you eat? There are other disfigured characters in literature and in real life: the Elephant Man, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, the boy in "Mask." Compare their handling of the problem with that of Foxman. What would you do?
  • Related Books
  • Tree by Leaf by Cynthia Voigt Macmillan, 1988 ISBN 0-689-31403-5. Compare the Foxman to the father in Tree by Leaf. The father was also gassed and is hiding out in the boathouse rather than facing his family. Collected Stories by Richard Kennedy Harper, 1987 ISBN 0-06-023256-0. This book contains a story called "Oliver Hyde's Dishcloth Concert". In that story Oliver hides his face with a dishcloth, not because of a physical disfigurement, but because of an emotional one. Fireweed by Jill Paton Walsh Farrar, 1988 ISBN 0-374-42316-4 This novel deals with war more directly Keeper of the Doves by Betsy Byars Viking, 2002 ISBN 0670035769 Another novel which focuses on an outcast.
  • Other works by Gary Paulsen Read some of his other books (they're all good) and see if you can decide what his values are. Related Areas of Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
  • US History. Featured Subject with related books, activities and links. Farms in Children's Literature. Featured Subject with related books, activities and links. Work and Occupations. Featured Subject with related books, activities and links. Alida's Song by Gary Paulsen. Book Review. Call Me Francis Tucket by Gary Paulsen. Book Review. The Haymeadow by Gary Paulsen. Book Review. The Monument by Gary Paulsen. Book Review. Popcorn Days and Buttermilk Nights by Gary Paulsen. Book Review. The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen. Book Review. Woodsong by Gary Paulsen. Book Review.
  • justin moore on 02 May 11
     
    Gary Paulsen and one of the books that he rought the foxman.
justin moore

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  • A writer of popular and finely wrought young adult novels and nonfiction with sales totaling more than three million worldwide, Gary Paulsen joined a select group of YA writers when he received the 1997 Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring an author's lifetime achievement in writing books for teens. His work is widely praised by critics, and he has been awarded Newbery Medal Honor Book citations for three of his books, Dogsong, Hatchet, and The Winter Room.
  • In prose lean and echoing of Hemingway, Paulsen creates powerful young adult fiction, often set in wilderness or rural areas and featuring teenagers who arrive at self-awareness by way of experiences in nature—through challenging tests of their own survival instincts—or through the ministrations of understanding adults. He displays an "extraordinary ability to picture for the reader how man's comprehension of life can be transformed with the lessons of nature," wrote Evie Wilson in Voice of Youth Advocates. "With humor and psychological genius, Paulsen develops strong adolescent characters who lend new power to youth's plea to be allowed to apply individual skills in their risk-taking." In addition to writing young adult fiction, Paulsen has also authored numerous picture books with his illustrator wife R. W. Paulsen, penned children's nonfiction, and authored two plays and many works of adult fiction and nonfiction.
  • Paulsen was born in Minnesota in 1939, the son of first-generation Danish and Swedish parents. During his childhood, he saw little of his father, who served in the military in Europe during World War II, and little of his mother, who worked in a Chicago ammunitions factory. "I was reared by my grandmother and several aunts," he once told Something about the Author. "I first saw my father when I was seven in the Philippines where my parents and I lived from 1946 to 1949." Writing of that experience a half century later in Riverbank Review, Paulsen noted that he "lived essentially as a street child in Manila, because my parents were alcoholics and I was not supervised. The effect was profound and lasting."
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  • When the family returned to the United States, Paulsen suffered from being continually uprooted. "We moved around constantly....The longest time I spent in one school was for about five months," Paulsen once told SATA. "I was an 'Army brat,' and it was a miserable life. School was a nightmare because I was unbelievably shy, and terrible at sports. . . . I wound up skipping most of the ninth grade." In addition to problems at school, he faced many ordeals at home. "My father drank a lot, and there would be terrible arguments," he noted. Eventually Paulsen was sent again to live with relatives and worked to support himself with jobs as a newspaper boy and as a pin-setter in a bowling alley.
  • Things began to change for the better during his teen years. He found security and support with his grandmother and aunts—"safety nets" as he described them in his interview. A turning point in his life came one sub-zero winter day when, as he was walking past the public library, he decided to stop in to warm himself. "To my absolute astonishment the librarian walked up to me and asked if I wanted a library card," he related. "When she handed me the card, she handed me the world. I can't even describe how liberating it was. She recommended westerns and science fiction but every now and then would slip in a classic. I roared through everything she gave me and in the summer read a book a day. It was as though I had been dying of thirst and the librarian had handed me a five-gallon bucket of water. I drank and drank."
  • After just barely graduating from high school in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, in 1959, Paulsen attended Bemidji College in Minnesota, for two years, paying for his tuition with money he'd earned as a trapper for the state of Minnesota. When he flunked out of college, he joined the U.S. Army, serving from 1959 to 1962, and working with missiles. After his tour of duty was completed, he took extension courses to become a certified field engineer, finding work in the aerospace departments of the Bendix and Lockheed corporations. There it occurred to him that he might try and become a writer. "I'd finished reading a magazine article on flight-testing . . . and thought, gad, what a way to make a living—writing about something you like and getting paid for it!" he told F. Serdahely in Writer's Digest. "I remembered writing some of my past reports, some fictionalized versions I'd included. And I thought: 'What the hell, I am an engineering writer.' But, conversely, I also realized I didn't know a thing about writing professionally. After several hours of hard thinking, a way to learn came to me. All I had to do was go to work editing a magazine."
  • Creating a fictitious resume, Paulsen was able to obtain an associate editor position on a men's magazine in Hollywood, California. Although it soon became apparent to his employers that he had no editorial experience, he once told SATA that "they could see I was serious about wanting to learn, and they were willing to teach me." He spent nearly a year with the magazine, finding it "the best of all possible ways to learn about writing. It probably did more to improve my craft and ability than any other single event in my life." Still living in California, Paulsen also found work as a film extra (he once played a drunken Indian in a movie called Flap), and took up sculpting as a hobby, even winning first prize in a local exhibition.
  • Paulsen's first book, The Special War, was published in 1966, and he soon proved himself to be one of the most prolific authors in the United States. In little over a decade, working mainly out of northern Minnesota—where he returned after becoming disillusioned with Hollywood—he published nearly forty books and close to two hundred articles and stories for magazines. Among Paulsen's diverse titles were a number of children's nonfiction books about animals, a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., several humorous titles under the "Sports on the Light Side" series published by Raintree Press, two plays, adult fiction and nonfiction, as well as some initial ventures into juvenile fiction. On a bet with a friend, he once wrote eleven articles and short stories inside four days and sold all of them.H
  • prolific output was interrupted by a libel lawsuit brought against his 1977 young adult novel Winterkill, the powerful story of a semi-delinquent boy befriended by a hard-bitten cop named Duda in a small Minnesota town. Paulsen eventually won the case, but, as he noted, "the whole situation was so nasty and ugly that I stopped writing. I wanted nothing more to do with publishing and burned my bridges, so to speak." Unable to earn any other type of living, he went back to trapping for the state of Minnesota, working his sixty-mile trap line on foot or skis.
  • To help Paulsen in his hunting job, a friend gave him a team of sled dogs, a gift that ultimately had a profound influence on Paulsen. "One day, about midnight, we were crossing Clear Water Lake, which is about three miles long," Paulsen recounted. "There was a full moon shining so brightly on the snow you could read by it. There was no one around, and all I could hear was the rhythm of the dogs' breathing as they pulled the sled." The intensity of the moment prompted an impulsive seven-day trip by Paulsen through northern Minnesota. "I didn't go home—my wife was frantic—I didn't check lines, I just ran the dogs....For food, we had a few beaver carcasses. . . . I was initiated into this incredibly ancient and very beautiful bond, and it was as if everything that had happened to me before ceased to exist." Paulsen afterwards made a resolution to permanently give up hunting and trapping, and proceeded to pursue dogsled racing as a hobby. He went so far as to enter the grueling twelve-hundred-mile Iditarod race in Alaska, an experience that later provided the basis for his award-winning novel Dogsong.
  • well."
  • Paulsen's 1987 novel Hatchet, also a Newbery honor book, tells the story of Brian, a thirteen-year-old thoroughly modern boy who is forced to survive alone in the Canadian woods after a plane crash. Like Russel in Dogsong, Hatchet's hero is also transformed by the wilderness. "By the time he is rescued, Brian is permanently changed," noted Suzanne Rahn in Twentieth-Century Children's Writers; "he is far more observant and thoughtful, and knows what is really important in his life." As noted in Children's Books and Their Creators, Hatchet became "one of the most popular adventure stories of all time," combining "elementary language with a riveting plot to produce a book both comprehensible and enjoyable for those children who frequently equate reading with frustration."
  • Hatchet proved so popular with readers that they demanded, and won, a number of sequels: The River, Brian's Winter, Brian's Return, and Brian's Hunt. In Brian's Hunt, Paulsen "delivers a gripping, gory tale about survival in the north woods, based on a real bear attack," noted Paula Rohrlick in Kliatt.
  • In My Life in Dog's Years, The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer, Eastern Sun, Winter Moon, and Guts: The True Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books, Paulsen recounts stories from his own life, many of which he has fictionalized in his young adult books. While most of the remembrances are intended for an adult audience, one of his most powerful memoirs for young readers is Woodsong, an autobiographical account of his life in Minnesota and Alaska while preparing his sled dogs to run the Iditarod. A reviewer noted in Horn Book that the "lure of the wilderness is always a potent draw, and Paulsen evokes its mysteries as well as anyone since Jack London." In another memoir intended for a young adult audience, How Angel Peterson Got His Name and Other Outrageous Tales about Extreme Sports, Paulsen recalls a number of daredevil stunts he and his friends performed during their early teen years. "Paulsen laces his tales with appealing '50s details and broad asides about the boys' personalities, ingenuity, and idiocy," noted a reviewer in Publishers Weekly.
  • Paulsen tells of a different kind of growing up in Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered. Instead of the main character reaching maturity while struggling in the wilderness, in Harris the unnamed protagonist discovers a sense of belonging while spending a summer on his relatives' farm. A child of abusive and alcoholic parents, the young narrator is sent to live with another set of relations—his uncle's family—and there he meets the reckless Harris, who leads him in escapades involving playing Tarzan in the loft of the barn and using pig pens as the stage for G.I. Joe games. "Through it all," explained a reviewer for Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, "the lonely hero imperceptibly learns about belonging." In Voice of Youth Advocates, Penny Blubaugh pointed out that "for the first time in his life [the narrator] finds himself surrounded by love."
  • In books like Nightjohn and Mr. Tucket Paulsen draws on history for literary inspiration. Nightjohn is set in the nineteenth-century South and revolves around Sarny, a young slave girl who risks severe punishment when she is persuaded to learn to read by Nightjohn, a runaway slave who has just been recaptured. A commentator for Kirkus Reviews called Nightjohn "a searing picture of slavery" and an "unbearably vivid book."Sarny is reprised as a character in Sarny: A Life Remembered, in which the former slave narrates her life in 1930, at the ripe old age of ninety-four. A focal point of the woman's story is the fact that she learned to read: this saves her on more than one occasion. Sarny' "story makes absorbing reading," concluded Bruce Anne Shook in a School Library Journal review.
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    About Gary paulsen point of veiw over his own very popular stories of Hachete, something, an somthing...
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      There is lots of info on Meg Cabot. I don't have enough time to read ALL of it!!
  • February 1, 1967 • Bloomington, Indiana Author
  • Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, in Bloomington, Indiana. She was an avid reader from a very early age, at first gobbling up comic books and science fiction at the local library.
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  • At one point, Cabot, who began publishing in 1998, was pumping out a novel almost every month; by early 2006 she had published forty-four works of fiction.
  • At one point, Cabot, who began publishing in 1998, was pumping out a novel almost every month; by early 2006 she had published forty-four works of fiction.
  • In 2000, however, Cabot hit the jackpot when she penned The Princess Diaries, a young adult novel that quickly caught on with readers primarily because the wryly humorous author was able to accurately capture "teen-speak." In 2001, The Princess Diaries was adapted for the big screen by Disney and its popularity catapulted Cabot from writer to celebrity.
  • In 2004, the movie The Princess Diaries 2 was released, which further followed the escapades of Mia, the Princess of Genovia. A few months prior, Cabot signed a seven-figure deal with her publisher, HarperCollins, to continue writing the Princess series and to build on her other young adult series. As Cabot told Teenreads.com, "I hope to write about [Mia] as long as people want to keep reading about her."
  • s of fiction
  • While cooling off in the library, Cabot soon discovered classic literature, such as To Kill a Mockingbird, by southern writer Harper Lee (1926–), and Jane Eyre, written by English novelist Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855). Jane Eyre, the story of the romance between a man and his daughter's nanny, in particular, had a lasting effect on young Cabot. As she explained in a 2004 interview with Christina Nunez, "It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have never left."
  • In addition to reading, Cabot was also obsessed with princesses.
  • "I was a traditional Disney-princess worshipper," she told Trudy Wyss of Borders. "You know, I had the Snow White birthday cake when I was six, drew Cinderella endlessly on my notepads." Cabot read about princesses (her favorite fairy tale is Beauty and the Beast ) and fantasized about being a real-life princess, often telling her mom and dad that her "real" parents, the king and queen, would arrive one day in Indiana to find her.
  • "It's one thing to be
  • "I am living proof that it is possible to profit from being a high school freak."
  • princess of a kingdom; it is quite another to be princess of an entire planet!"
  • While in high school Cabot began to write her own stories because, as she claimed in an Onion Street online interview, there was absolutely nothing else to do.
  • In addition, Cabot wrote for the high school newspaper and kept detailed journals. She also was active in after-school activities, including choir, theater, and the art club.
  • Although she enjoyed writing Cabot never planned on becoming a professional author. Instead, she dreamed of being an actress or a veterinarian.
  • Unfortunately, she flunked algebra and did rather poorly on the math portion of her SATs.
  • Following graduation from high school, Cabot decided to study art at the University of Indiana, where she could attend tuition-free since her father was a professor.
  • In 1991, with a bachelor of fine arts degree in hand, the budding artist moved to New York City to pursue a career as an illustrator. Instead, she landed a job as a freshman dormitory assistant manager at New York University. It was not exactly her dream job, but there were periods when work was slow, which gave her plenty of free time to return to her early love: writing.
  • Seven years and thousands of rejection letters later (Cabot claims she has a mail bag full of rejections), her first novel was finally published. It was an historical romance called Where Roses Grow Wild (1998), and it was written under the pen name, or alias, of Patricia Cabot. Several more romances followed in 1999 and 2000. At the same time, Cabot was busy trying her hand at a novel, called The Princess Diaries, that was aimed at younger readers. Even though she was a published author, Cabot's young adult novel was rejected seventeen times before it was finally purchased by HarperCollins and released in 2000.
  • The inspiration for Princess came from an event that happened in Cabot's own life. After her father died her mother began dating her daughter's former art teacher. Cabot was so horrified that she began keeping a diary. She expanded the diary entries into a story about a ninth-grader named Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, also known as Mia, whose mother is dating her algebra teacher. Cabot also visited her old high school diaries to add a true teen voice to her character, a gangly, shy freshman being raised by her single mom in a Greenwich Village loft in New York City.
  • n addition to facing the trials and tribulations of teenage life, Mia's world is turned upside-down when she discovers that her father is actually the prince of a tiny European country called Genovia and that she is next in l
  • Critics gave mixed reviews to the The Princess Diaries, claiming that at times it was over the top and cartoonish.
  • "The reason girls are drawn to the book is an element of naughtiness—ooh, I'm reading something that's not supposed to be read."
  • A few reviewers, however, were troubled by some of the questionable situations that appear in the book. For example, Mia's parents were never married, and her mother has a boyfriend who sleeps over. In her All About Romance interview, Cabot speaks to the objection by saying The Princess Diaries is timely. "It really does reflect modern-day popular culture, as well as modern-day teen problems and concerns. Many librarians (and parents, as well as teachers) have pointed to those scenes in particular as examples of timely issues, considering how many kids now have single parents or have friends with single parents."
  • Regardless of the critics, readers were drawn to the book in huge groups.
  • In just a few short years The Princess Diaries had become a mini-dynasty with Meg Cabot as its queen
  • The Princess Diaries movies may not have been quite as successful if eighteen-year-old newcomer Anne Hathaway had not been chosen to play Mia Thermopolis, the nerdy American who is transformed into European royalty. In fact, even critics who panned the film consistently praised the fresh-faced, fledgling actress. As David DiCerto of the Catholic News Service wrote, "The mediocre material is elevated somewhat by the buoyant and beautiful Hathaway, whose sunny smile could light up a small kingdom of two."
  • nne Hathaway was born on November 12, 1982, in Brooklyn, New York, the middle child and only daughter of Gerald Hathaway, an attorney, and Kate McCauley, a singer and actress.
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  • For thirty years Sharon Draper was an English teacher in the Cincinnati, Ohio,
  • her love of reading and writing in generations of children, and inspiring them to reach for their greatest dreams.
    • Emily=) bowles
      Emily=) bowles on 20 Apr 11
       
      She sound like a great author
    • Shelby Tomlinson
      Shelby Tomlinson on 25 Apr 11
       
      Was she really a teacher??
    • victoria fuller
      victoria fuller on 25 Apr 11
       
      Wow! A teacher? I had no idea!! I have got to start reading those books!
    • Lucas Babers
      Lucas Babers on 02 May 11
       
      Wow!!!!!!!!!! For thirty years of teaching she became an author!!!! That is amazing!
  • n 1997 she received the highest honor an educator can be given when President Bill Clinton (1946–) named her the U.S. Teacher of the Year.
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  • In 1994 the dedicated teacher became an author, releasing her first children's book, Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs.
  • Draper is also a poet and nonfiction write
  • Draper's most recent young adult novel, The Battle of Jericho (2003),
  • the Coretta Scott King Honor Book of 2004.
  • Draper, Sharon. The Battle of Jericho. New York: Simon … Schuster, 2003. Draper, Sharon. Forged by Fire. New York: Simon … Schuster, 1997. Draper, Sharon. Tears of a Tiger. New York: Simon … Schuster, 1994. Draper, Sharon. Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs. East Orange, N.J.: Just Us Books, 1994. Draper, Sharon. Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs: Lost in the Tunnel of Time. East Orange, N.J.: Just Us Books, 1996
  • Books
  • I write because I care about young people. I write because I teach."
  • Draper breezed through high school, taking advanced and honors courses, and graduated a National Merit Scholar.
  • National Merit Scholarships are awarded each year to a handful of students who achieve excellence on the college placement examination, the SAT.
  • In 1971, when she was just twenty years old, Draper graduated with a degree in English.
  • She earned a master's degree in 1974
  • this same period, she married her husband, Larry Draper, who is also a teacher. The couple has four children.
  • Her writing career began in 1990 on a whim.
  • Draper had always encouraged her students to submit stories and poems to writing contests.
  • "I wanted to write something that young people could read that would be contemporary and exciting." She further explained, "I couldn't find anything they really liked to read, so I started writing for them myself."
  • The busy Draper wrote during any spare moment she could find, which meant stealing time on weekends, at night, and during study hall periods.
  • In November 1994 both of Draper's books appeared on bookstore shelves on the sa
  • me day.
  • Tears was the first book in what would become the Hazelwood High trilogy. The main character in the second title in the series, Forged by Fire (1997), is Gerald Nickelby, one of Andy's basketball teammates. Darkness Before Dawn (2001) follows Andy's girlfriend, Keisha, through her senior year of high school.
  • Teachers latched on to Draper's books for making lesson plans, parents praised her for helping their children turn off the television and start turning pages, and kids raced to the library begging for more.
  • Many of Draper's novels deal with topics that may be controversial, but that are a very real part of everyday life for some people.
  • Draper believes that her books help her readers in many ways.
  • 1. What do you usually have for breakfast? Yogurt and walnuts and bananas. 2. If you could eat lunch with one famous person, who would it be? Denzel Washington. 3. What would you hate to be left in a room with? No books! 4. What inspires you? Honesty. Sincerity. Love. 5. What annoys you? People who don't try. People who give up.
  • In 2004, Draper received her third Coretta Scott King Award for The Battle of Jericho (2003), which takes a frank look at yet another controversial topic: hazing rituals.
  • I Survived the Draper Paper."
  • Following her win, Draper took a one-year leave of absence from the classroom to tour the United States as a teaching ambassador.
  • "I am so proud to be a teacher," she commented.
  • "I'm proud of my colleagues, 3 million of us, who strive every day in the classrooms across the country to make a difference in the lives of students."
  • While still in elementary school Draper also realized that one day she wanted to become a teacher. "I was probably born to be a teacher," she revealed on her Web site. "As a child, I taught my dolls, my dogs, and the kids next door." She singles out one woman, in particular, who served as a special role model: her fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Kathadaza Mann.
  • According to Draper, Mann taught her students about Black history long before it was an accepted part of the curriculum.
  • She also
  • introduced them to classic literature, art, and music. "She was one of the first teachers," Draper recalled, "who taught me to read analytically, to think critically, and to speak fearlessly."
  • In interviews Sharon Draper credits her parents for introducing her to the world of books. Draper was born in 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio, the oldest child of Victor Mills,
  • Here are some fun answers to some interesting questions posed to award-winning author Sharon Draper
  • o enthusiastically ask her questions about the writing process, the characters in her books, and how they can one day become writers themselves. In April 2005, Draper visited Whittier Middle School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where she read excerpts from her books and fielded questions from her young fans. As one thirteen-year-old told Brenda Schmidt of the Argus Leader, "You do feel like you know her. It's a lot of fun to actually meet her and see her personality." According to Draper, who spoke with Teri Lesesne of Teacher Librarian, "It's an awesome responsibility to have so much response to what I've written." As a result, she takes correspondence from fans very seriously and she reads every piece of e-mail she receives. Many of t
  • There are some questions that she will not answer because they are too personal (like how old she is);
  • Draper refuses to answer when she feels it would be completing kids' homework assignments
  • he questions posed by young readers are posted on Draper's Web site and give a glimpse into the life of the famous author.
  • By 2005 Draper had retired from teaching to pursue writing full time, but the dedicated professional could never truly stop being an educator.
  • she continues to travel around the world lecturing to groups of all ages about the power of education and the importance of literacy and reading.
  • Draper is also a frequent guest on many U.S. television and radio programs
  • I started writing as a result of my teaching, and now, my writing has become a teaching tool.
  • I wrote for my students, for the kids I knew who didn't like to read, who weren't inspired by books or literature.
  • Now the books are used in schools all over the country, teachers use them as learning tools for their classes, and when I speak to students at schools, all I really do is an extended version of what I've always done, which is teach."
  • April 11, 1952
  • I inhaled books and knowledge
  • " the author commented on her Web site.
  • Draper began school she was already a self-described bookworm
  • when they were very young; by the time
  • and Catherine Mills read to her three children each night startin
  • Mills's home,
  • filled the
  • As an English teacher in the Cincinnati Public School system, Draper earned a reputation as a no-nonsense educator who challenged her students to the limit.
  • I demand the best from them," she explained on her Web site
  • they expect the best from me."
  • Draper introduced students to classic and contemporary literature through seminar-like classes where kids were encouraged to discuss what they read in conjunction with current events.
  • One of Draper's writing assignments, in particular, became legendary. As part of their final grade, seniors at Walnut Hills High School were asked to produce a well-researched term paper.
  • The Draper Paper."
  • T-shirts were even
  • designed
  • given only to those students who successfully met the challenge.
  • shirts proudly boasted:
  • Draper's classes were in high demand through the 1980s and 1990s, and in 1997 she was named Ohio's Teacher of the Year.
  • April 1997 t
  • Cincinnati educator
  • scored
  • even bigger honor
  • she earned the title U.S. Teacher of the Year.
  • award ceremony
  • Washington, D.C., President Bill Clinton applauded Draper for her many years of service.
  • reprinted part of his speech:
  • 27 years she has inspired
  • and life
  • passion for literature
  • students with her
  • Sharon Draper
  • credit to her profession
  • , she is a true blessing to the children she has taught.
  • In addition, Draper became part of the National Board for Teaching Standards and contributed to a number of professional publications to push the need for teacher accountability and development.
  • Being the Teacher of the Year ambassador kept Draper on the road more than twenty days a month.
  • One day, Draper explains on her Web site, a bold young man handed her a crumpled application form and said, "You think you so bad— why don't you write something! Enter this contest!"
  • Draper accepted his challenge and submitted a short story to Ebony magazine's annual Gertrude Johnson Williams Literary Competition.
  • Months went by
  • Draper promptly forgot that she had even entered a contest.
  • One day, however, she received a phone call that her short story, "One Small Torch," had taken first prize.
  • she began receiving letters
  • calls of congratulations—
  • very famous writers.
  • importantly,
  • win ignited a spark in Draper, who decided to try her hand at a longer work of fiction.
  • As luck would have it, while she was waiting for Tears to be published, Draper was contacted by her agent who said that another publishing house, the African American-run Just Us Books, had inquired whether Draper had anything in the works for younger readers.
  • Tears of a Tiger focuses on an African American teen named Andy Jackson, who struggles to come to terms with the death of his best friend, Robert.
  • Draper uses a variety of devices to move the story along.
  • As Draper told David Marc Fischer of Writing!, "For young people, the largest part of the day is spent in school.
  • So I make school assignments and activities vital parts of my stories."
  • Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs also ended up being a trilogy, with all three books following the adventures of ten-year-old Ziggy, who forms a club called the Black Dinosaurs with his three best friends.
  • just as she did in the Hazelwood High books, the teacher-turned-author mixes some "lessons" in with the adventure.
  • , Lost in the Tunnel of Time (1996), Ziggy and friends discover a tunnel once used as a station for the Underground Railroad.
  • one teacher told Kelly Starling of Ebony, "Few books have elicited such strong emotion in my students as Tears of a Tiger.
  • only book some of them have read completely."
  • Forged by Fire
  • Seattle Times, the ALA jury commended Draper "for tackling troubling contemporary issues, and providing concrete options and positive African American role models."
  • example, 1999's Romiette and Julio takes on interracial dating and gang life, and Double Dutch, published in 2002, tackles illiteracy and child abandonment.
  • sked why
  • explores such tough subjects, Draper told David Marc Fischer, "Perhaps reading about the difficulties of others will act like an armor and protect my readers from the personal tragedies of their own lives."
  • At first the tasks are harmless, but as the week progresses things start to take a negative turn. Ultimately, Jericho must decide whether staying with the group is worth losing his self-respect.
  • Publishers Weekly called it "timely," and congratulated Draper for "driving home an important message about peer pressure.
  • . In order to join the group new members must survive pledge initiation week.
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  • Forged by Fire Summary:
  • As a teenager, Gerald finds success as a member of the Hazelwood Tigers basketball team, while Angel develops her talents as a dancer. Trouble still haunts them, however, and Gerald learns, painfully, that young friends can die and old enemies must be faced. In the end he must stand up to his stepfather alone in a blazing confrontation. Sharon M. Draper has interwoven characters and events from her previous novel, Tears of a Tiger, in this unflinchingly realistic portrayal of poverty and child abuse. It is an inspiring story of a young man who rises above the tragic circumstances of his life by drawing on the love and strength of family and friends.
  • ire is dangerous and powerful, and tragedy strikes.
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  • he was fascinated by fire.
  • mother is taken from him.
  • A brutal stepfather with a flaming temper and an evil secret makes his life miserable.
  • The one bright light in Gerald's life is his little half sister, Angel, whom he struggles to protect from her father, Jordan Sparks, who abuses her, and from their mother, whose irresponsible behavior forces Gerald to work hard to keep the family together.
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  • Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Oscar and Eunice H. (née Moen),[1] Paulsen was raised by his parents and later lived with his grandmother and aunts. At the age of 14, he ran away from home to join a carnival.[citation needed] Paulsen used his work as a magazine proofreader to learn the craft of writing.[citation needed] In 1966, his first book was published under the title The Special War. Paulsen is an outdoorsman (a hunter, trapper, and three-time competitor in the 1,150-mile (1,850 km) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race).
  • Much of Paulsen's work features the outdoors and highlights the importance of nature. He often uses "coming of age" themes in his novels, where a character masters the art of survival in isolation as a rite of passage to manhood and maturity. He is critical of technology and has been called a Luddite.[2]
  • Some of Paulsen's most well-known books are the Hatchet series, although he has published many other popular novels including Dogsong, Harris and Me, and The Winter Room, which won the Newbery Honor. Woodsong and Winterdance are among the most popular books about the Iditarod. Paulsen competed in the 1983 and 1985 Iditarod races. In 1990, because of angina, he gave up dog sledding, which he has described as the most difficult decision he has ever made. After more than a decade spent sailing all over the Pacific, Paulsen got back into dog sledding in 2003. In 2005, he was scheduled to compete in the 2005 Iditarod after a 20-year absence, but he withdrew shortly before the start of the race. He participated in the 2006 Iditarod, but scratched after two days.
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  • Paulsen lives in La Luz, New Mexico, with his wife, Ruth Wright Paulsen, an artist who has illustrated several of his books. He also maintains a 40-acre (160,000 m2) spread north of Willow, Alaska, where he breeds and trains sled dogs for the Iditarod. His son James is in his twenties and is working at a university.[citation needed]
  • According to Paulsen's keynote speech on October 13, 2007 at the Sinclair Lewis writing conference in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he intended to compete in the Iditarod again; he is listed in the "Mushers Withdrawn" section of the 2009 race. [edit]
  • Published works
  • The Tucket Adventures Mr. Tucket (1968) (also known as Chance for Escape) Call Me Francis Tucket (1995) Tucket's Ride (1997) Tucket's Gold (1999) Tucket's Home (2000) Tucket's Travels(2001)
  • Brian's Saga Hatchet (1987) (Has an alternate ending which makes a continuity with Brian's Winter) The River (Hatchet: The Return) (1991) Brian's Winter (Hatchet: Winter) (1996) Brian's Return (Hatchet: The Call) (1999) Brian's Hunt (2003
  • Murphy series Murphy (1987) Murphy's Gold (1988) Murphy's Herd (1989) Murphy's War (1990)
  • Co-authored by Brian Burks Murphy's Stand (1993) Murphy's Ambush (1995) Murphy's Trail (1996) [edit] Alida's series The Cookcamp (1991) Alida's Song (1999) The Quilt (2004)
  • Tales to Tickle the Funnybone The Boy Who Owned the School (1990) Harris and Me (1993) The Schernoff Discoveries (1997) The Glass Cafe (2003) Molly McGinty Has a Really Good Day (2004) The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech (2006) Lawn Boy (2007)
  • Culpepper Adventures
  • The Case of the Dirty Bird (1992) Dunc's Doll (1992) Culpepper's Cannon (1992) Dunc Gets Tweaked (1992) Dunc's Halloween (1992) Dunc Breaks the Record (1992)
  • Dunc and the Flaming Ghost (1992) Amos Gets Famous (1993) Dunc and Amos Hit the Big Top (1993) Dunc's Dump (1993) Dunc and the Scam Artists (1993) Dunc and Amos and the Red Tattoos (1993) Dunc's Undercover Christmas (1993)
  • Wild Culpepper Cruise (1993) Dunc and the Haunted Castle (1993) Cowpokes and Desperadoes (1994) Prince Amos (1994) Coach Amos (1994) Amos and the Alien (1994) Dunc and Amos Meet the Slasher (199
  • Other novels
  • The Curse of the Cobra (1977) The Green Recruit (1978) The Spitball Gang (1980) Compkill (1981) The Sweeper (1981) Clutterkill (1982) Dancing Carl (1983)
  • Popcorn Days and Buttermilk Nights (1983) Tracker (1984) Dogsong (1985) Sentries (1986) The Crossing (1987) The Island (1988) Night Rituals (1989) The Voyage of the Frog (1989) The Winter Room (1989)
  • Canyons (1990) Kill Fee (1990) The Night the White Deer Died (1990) The Monument (1991) Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass (1992) The Haymeadow (1992) (known as The Fourteenth Summer in the UK) A Christmas Sonata (1992) Dogteam (1993)
  • Sisters / Hermanas (1993) (includes Spanish translation by Gloria de Aragon Andujar) The Car (1994) The Tent (1995) The Tortilla Factory (1995) The Rifle (1995) Worksong (1997) Ice Race (1997) (alternate title of Woodsong or Winterdance?)
  • Woods Runner (2010) Lawn Boy Lawn Boy Returns (2010) Masters of Disaster (2010)
  • Liar, Liar (March 8, 2011)
  • Non-Fiction
  • The Grass-Eaters: Real Animals (1976) The Small Ones (1976) Hitting, Pitching, and Running (1976) Martin Luther King: The Man Who Climbed the Mountain (1976) Dribbling, Shooting, and Scoring (1976) Careers in an Airport (1977)
  • Tackling, Running, and Kicking (1977) Riding, Roping, and Bulldogging (1977) Farm: A History And Celebration of the American Farmer (1977) Running, Jumping, and Throwing (1978) Successful Home Repair: When Not to Call the Contractor (1978
  • Forehanding and Backhanding (1978) Hiking and Backpacking (1978) Downhill, Hotdogging and Cross-Country (1979) Facing Off, Checking and Goaltending (1979) Launching, Floating High and Landing (1979) Pummeling, Falling and Getting Up-Sometimes (1979) Track, Enduro and Motocross (1979)
  • Canoeing, Kayacking, and Rafting (1979) Going Very Fast in a Circle (1979) Athletics: Focus On Sport (1980) Ice Hockey: Focus On Sport (1980) Motor Cycling: Focus On Sport (1980)
  • Motor Racing: Focus On Sport (1980) Skiing: Focus On Sport (1980) Tennis: Focus On Sport (1980) T.V. and Movie Animals (1980) (with Art Browne, Jr) Money Saving Home Repair Guide: Successful Home Improvement Series (1981)
  • Sailing: From Jibs to Jibing (1981) Beat the System: A Survival Guide (1982) The Madonna Stories (1988) Woodsong (1990) Eastern Sun, Winter Moon (1993)
  • Full of Hot Air: Launching, Floating High, And Landing (1993) A Guide for Using Hatchet in the Classroom (1994) Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod (1994) Father Water, Mother Woods (1994) Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers (1996)
  • My Life in Dog Years (1998) Pilgrimage on a Steel Ride: A Memoir of Men and Motorcycles (1997) All Aboard: Stories from Big Books (1998) (various authors, including Paulsen excerpt?) Zero to Sixty: A Motorcycle Journey Through Midlife (1999) (reprint title of Pilgrimage on a Steel Ride)
  • Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books (2001) Caught by the Sea - My Life on Boats (2001) How Angel Peterson Got His Name (2003)
  • justin moore on 06 May 11
     
    facts about gary paulsen.
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      Shelby Tomlinson on 05 May 11
       
      This was her a while back. She has shorter hair now, and two cats: Henrietta and Gem.
    • Shelby Tomlinson
      Shelby Tomlinson on 05 May 11
       
      At the bottom of the page, you can see almost all the books she has written: over 50!!!!!!
    • Emily=) bowles
      Emily=) bowles on 10 May 11
       
      How many has she written total
    • Shelby Tomlinson
      Shelby Tomlinson on 10 May 11
       
      61 total novels and 9 short stories
    • Shelby Tomlinson
      Shelby Tomlinson on 10 May 11
       
      Meg's middle name is Patricia
  • Meg Cabot(Meggin Patricia Cabot)  (1967 - )akaPatricia Cabot, Jenny Carroll
  • Meggin Cabot was born on 1st February 1967, in Bloomington, Indiana. The intervening years of Meggin's childhood were spent in pursuit of air conditioning, of which there was little at the time in Southern Indiana. A primary source proved to be the Monroe County Public Library, where Meggin whiled away many hours, reading the complete works of Jane Austen, Judy Blume and Barbara Cartland. It was around this time that Meggin's desire to be a writer bloomed, a goal that was not forgotten, even when she fell in with a theatre crowd in high school and went on to star in productions such as The Good Doctor and Li'l Abner.After earning a Fine Arts degree at Indiana University, Meggin moved to New York City in 1989, intent in pursuing a career in freelance illustration. Assignments by MTV and Planned Parenthood soon followed. In September, 1994, however, spurred by the sudden death of her father, Meggin dusted off one of the many manuscripts she had penned in her spare time and began to look for representation. Where Roses Grow Wild, her first historical romance was published by St. Martin's Press under the name Patricia Cabot. Two other romances followed, and then prompted by her mother moving in with one of her former a
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  • professors, she wrote both The Princess Diaries and The Meditator, books which happen to be about, among other things, teenage girls dealing with unsettling family issues.Meg Cabot currently resides in New York with her husband and their one-eyed cat named Henrietta. 
  • MyrandaK (((: on 05 May 11
     
    awesome!!!!!!!! good info!
  • MyrandaK (((: on 09 May 11
     
    have you found out her middle name?
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  • Carley Mattea never expected to meet a boy as handsome as Kyle Westin--and certainly not in the hospital. Seventeen-year-old Kyle was blinded when a chemistry experiment exploded, and doctors don't know if he'll ever get his sight back. He's miserable and Carley knows how he feels--she's scarred with a facial deformity that Kyle can't see. The two have become friends, but Carley worries that if Kyle regains his sight, he'll be horrified by what he sees. ...
  • Leah is put in the hospital with a broken finger. While there she has a roomate named Rebekah. Rebekah is Amish... something Leah is not really familiar with. Rebekah's sister, Charity, and brother, Ethan, come to stay with her. Leah becomes really close to all of them. She gets especially close to Ethan, who at first won't even look her in the eye but then tells her she is the most beautiful girl he has ever laid eyes on. Everything is going great...
  • Angels in Pink "Raina's Story" revolves around a trio of friends: Raina, Holly and Kathleen. This story centers around blonde and beautiful Raina, a high school junior who, along with her two best friends, volunteers at a local hospital in her off time. Raina is on top of the world as she starts her junior year at school. She has her own car, she loves her volunteer work, she has a great boyfriend, Hunter, and two fantastic best friends. Things start ...
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  • s ready to make a difference in the world. After graduation she joins a mission group on a hospital mercy ship sailing to Africa. However, Heather is unprepared to face the disease, famine, and misery she encounters. Ian McCollum is also among the medical staff in Uganda. Ian has left his native Scotland to help those threatened by a world
  • Heather Barlow has always been idealistic, and now that she has finished high school,
  • In this book Amber is a high-class teenage girl who gets pretty much anything she wants and is popular in school. When her sister can't go to Africa on a missionary trip, Amber takes her place. She not only helps other people while there, but she helps herself. She finds lots of new friends while in Africa... but most importantly... she finds herself!...
  • Megan's father talks her into becoming a candy striper at the hospital he works at to help her get over her best friend Cindy's death. On her first day she meets a boy named Donovan. They get really close but there is one problem... Donovan has needs a kidney transplant. Will he get it in time?...
  • Leah has taken a summer job at an Indiana bed-and-breakfast to be near Ethan, a young Amish boy who she met when she shared a hospital room with his younger sister Rebekah. Leah's bone cancer has been in remission after a course of chemo and a visit by someone named Gabriella. As the love between Leah and Ethan grows, they explore the conflicts between the ways of the "English" and the Amish. Ethan even tries some "english" ways, like driving and ev...
  • Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Carrie Blake has beaten her cancer . She meets a guy named Keith Gardner at a cancer support meeting. They fall in love. Then unexpectedly Keith Gardner's cancer comes back! An amazing novel dealing with Carrie's problems and Keith's struggle to survive. Keith has an amazing supportive family that teaches Carrie lots about her own divorced family. Keith, even though he is dying, helps Carrie make decisions in life and he helps her overcome her fears. ...
  • Roses For Melinda It's hard to think about dying when you are only a teenager, but that is exactly what Melinda must face, when she is diagnosed with cancer. At first it looks like there may be a chance that she can be cured, but soon she gets sicker and dies....
  • Six Months to Live Dawn Rochelle is an average girl of thirteen until her anual checkup results came back... cancer. How could she have cancer? Dawn imidately went into the oncology floor of her hospital. She had a roomate of the same age, Sandy Chandler, who also had cancer. They did everything together including fashion advise, counselling, and other activities in the hospital. It was Dawn's fourth month at the hospital when Sandy's test results came back saying she was ...
  • The Girl Death Left Behind Beth loses her mother, father, sister and brother at the same time. Soon after she has to move away to her aunt and uncle's place in a different state. This also means moving in with her bratty cousin and leaving her friends. She hates it at first but in the end everything ends up ok! This is a really good book but be prepared to cry!...
  • Time to Let Go When Erin's sister has a tragic accident that has left her dead, Erin starts having dreadful headaches she is pretty positive that it has something to do with her sister's death. Erin is a great dancer and she is in every play at her all girls play, But this year an all boys school will be joining them in the preduction of The West Side Story. Her partner which is the main male role is played by David. Everyone thinks David is so great and awesome but Er...
  • Until Angels Close My Eyes When sixteen year old Leah learns she has cancer, her whole world changes. While in the hospital the first time, she befriends Rebekah, a sick Amish girl, and her family. As Leah gets better, she gets a job near the family where she can be with them and also pursue a relationship with Rebekah's brother Ethan. While Ethan is testing his freedom and openly dating Leah, his family is displeased. When things seem they can't get any worse for Leah and E...
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      Nicole Hicks on 20 Apr 11
       
      I can't believe he has written this many magazine articles!
  • Born on May 17, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Gary Paulsen is the prolific author of more than 40 books, 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays; primarily for Young Adults.
  • Paulsen's interests in books and reading came when he was a teenager and walked into a library to escape the cold of a Minnesota winter. Once inside, and much to his surprise, the librarian offered him a library card and a book to read (Something About the Author, 1995). Reading helped Paulsen cope with a difficult family situation then and remains a constant in his life today
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  • Since the age of 15, Paulsen has worked at many jobs in an effort to support himself: migrant worker, soldier, field engineer, truck driver, and magazine editor (Handy, 1991).
  • Paulsen used his work as a magazine editor to learn the craft of writing. In 1966, his first book was published, The Special War. Using his varied life experiences, but especially those of an outdoorsman--a hunter, trapper, and two-time competitor in the Iditarod, a 1,200 mile Alaskan dogsled race, Paulsen writes about what he knows best. This knowledge comes through clearly in the descriptive details he uses, making the reader feel part of the narrative
  • Much of Paulsen's work features outdoor settings showing the importance of water and woods to the harmony of nature. He often uses a coming of age theme, where a character masters the art of survival in isolation as a rite of passage to manhood. Ethnic groups are presented with sensitivity and understanding, giving the reader a perspective not realized previously. . .the majestic use of language, the examination of human potential, a strong sense of humor...has won Paulsen his much deserved reputation...(Lesesne, 1996, p.341).
  • Paulsen lives in La Luz, New Mexico with his wife, Ruth, an artist.
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • Brian's Winter. New York: Delacorte, 1996. Call Me Frances Tucket. New York: Delacorte, 1995. Danger On Midnight River. New York: Doubleday, 1995. Escape From Fire Mountain. New York: Bantam Books, 1995. Hook 'em Snotty. New York: Doubleday, 1995. The Rifle. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1995. Rock Jockeys. New York: Bantam, 1995. The Tent. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1995. The Tortilla Factory. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1995. The Car. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1994. The Legend of Red Horse Cavern. New York: Bantam, 1994. Dogteam. New York: Delacorte, 1993. Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1993.
  • The Winter Room. New York: Orchard, 1989. The Island. New York: Orchard, 1988. The Crossing. New York: Orchard, 1987. Hatchet. New York: Bradury Press, 1987. Sentries. New York: Bradbury Press, 1986. Dogsong, New York: Bradbury Press, 1985. Tracker. New York: Bradbury Press, 1984. Dancing Carl. New York: Bradbury Press, 1983. Popcorn Days and Buttermilk Nights. Lodestar Books, 1983. The Spitball Gang. Elsevier, 1980. The Green Recruit.Independence Press, 1978. The C. B. Radio Caper.Raintree, 1977. The Curse of the Cobra. Raintree, 1977. The Foxman. T. Nelson, 1977. The Golden Stick. Raintree, 1977. Tiltawhirl John.T. Nelson, 1977. Winterkill.T. Nelson, 1977. Mr. Tuckett. Funk & Wagnalls,1968. Culpepper Adventures Series. New York: Dell, from 1992 to present.
  • Nightjohn. New York: Delacorte, 1993. Sisters/Hermanas. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1993. Christmas Sonata. New York: Delacorte, 1992. The Haymeadow. New York: Delacorte, 1992. The Cookcamp. New York: Orchard, 1991. The Monument. New York: Delacorte, 1991. The River. New York: Delacorte, 1991. The Boy Who Owned the School. New York: Orchard, 1990. Canyons. New York: Delacorte, 1990. The Night the White Deer Died. New York: Delacorte, 1990. Woodsong. New York: Bradbury Press, 1990. The Voyage of the Frog. New York: Orchard, 1989.
  • ByTerie Katz.
  • Could you survive in the Canadian wilderness with just your basic instincts and a hatchet? In Paulsen's book,Hatchet, the protagonist, Brian Robeson, does just that, he survives in the wilderness for 54 days by using his instincts and a hatchet, a present from his mother.
  • Brian is being flown to see his father in the Canadian wilderness for the summer after the divorce of his parents, when he is thrown into a life threatening situation when the pilot of the two-seater plane has fatal heart attack. Immediately Brian must think of how to survive by landing the plane in a lake. From this moment Paulsen takes you through the survival techniques of Brian's 54 days in the wilderness.
  • HATCHET.
  • Fast paced, suspenseful with minute detail description, Paulsen's theme of survival is evident in his description of how Brian must learn from his mistakes and to rely on nature to survive. But Brian must also learn to get over the divorce his parents just went through and not dwell on the past and his fears, for this takes away from his focus to survive. Through Paulsen's descriptions you experience Brian's first success in making a fire without matches, catching his first meat, to his disappointments when his "home" is destroyed by a tornado
  • Paulsen effectively demonstrates to his readers how Brian must learn to survive by watching, listening, overcoming his mistakes, and through sheer determination to survive. Paulsen's sub-plot of "The Secret" about Brian's mother, and the divorce of his parents is mentioned a number of times in the story but it does not bring any relevance to the main theme of Brian's survival.
  • "Paulsen's knowledge of our national wilderness is obvious and beautifully shared...YA readers will surely identify with Brian's anger at his parent's divorce...his awakening self-assurance and pride" (Wilson, February 1988, p.283).
  • "Paulsen effectively shows readers how Brian learns patience - to watch, listen, and think before he acts..." (Chatton, December 1987, p. 103).
  • justin moore on 20 Apr 11
     
    this a very good way to learn about Gary Paulsen .
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    Breathless by Lurlene McDaniel
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    Gordon Korman was born in Montreal, Canada, and grew up in the Toronto area. Since he had no brothers, sisters, or pets, he started writing to keep himself entertained. Then his 7th-grade English teacher gave the class an exciting assignment: "He gave us four months-45 minutes a day!-to work on the story of our choice. My project was This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, which became my first published book. I happened to be the class monitor for the Scholastic TAB Book Club, so I figured I was practically a Scholastic employee already! I sent my novel to the address on the TAB flyer, and a few days after my 14th birthday, I had a book contract with Scholastic." By the time Korman graduated from high school, he had published five other novels and several articles for Canadian newspapers. He then moved to New York City, where he studied film and dramatic writing at New York University. Known for his funny, realistic novels for children and young adults, Korman has also collaborated with his mother on two books of poetry written by the fictional character Jeremy Bloom. Never short for ideas, Korman is grateful to the real kids he meets for inspiration: "The best place to get ideas is at the schools I visit. No matter how inventive we writers try to be, the real characters are always the best ones." Gordon Korman lives in Great Neck, New York, with his wife and son.
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      justin moore on 03 May 11
       
      books when they were wrought and all off there following seasons or should i say series.
  • and Amos Hit the Big Top • Dunc's Dump • Dunc and the Scam Artists • Dunc and Amos and the Red Tattoos • Dunc's Undercover Christmas • Wild Culpepper Cruise • Dunc and the Haunted Castle • Cowpokes and Desperadoes • Prince Amos • Coach Amos • Amos and the Alien • Dunc and Amos Meet the Slasher • Dunc and the Greased Sticks of Doom • Amos's Killer Concert Caper • Amos Gets Married • Amos Goes Bananas • Dunc and Amos Go to the Dogs • Amos and the Vampire • Amos and the Chameleon Caper • Amos Binder, Secret Agent • Dunc and Amos on Thin Ice • Super Amos • Amos Meets the Slasher
  • The Boy Who Owned the School • Harris and Me • The Schernoff Discoveries • • • Molly McGinty Has a Really Good Day • Lawn Boy
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  • The Small Ones • Hitting, Pitching, and Running • • Dribbling, Shooting, and Scoring • Careers in an Airport • Tackling, Running, and Kicking • Riding, Roping, and Bulldogging • • Running, Jumping, and Throwing • • Forehanding and Backhanding • Hiking and Backpacking • Downhill, Hotdogging and Cross-Country • Facing Off, Checking and Goaltending • Launching, Floating High and Landing • Pummeling, Falling and Getting Up-Sometimes • Track, Enduro and Motocross • Canoeing, Kayacking, and Rafting • Going Very Fast in a Circle • • • • • • • T.V. and Movie Animals • • • • The Madonna Stories • • A Guide for Using Hatchet in the Classroom • • Father Water, Mother Woods • • My Life in Dog Years • • • • • Caught by the Sea • How Angel Petersen Got His Name
  • Double click any English word, to find Turkish meaning Gary Paulsen is an American writer, who writes many young adult coming of age stories about the wilderness. He is the author of more than 200 books (many of which are out of print), 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for young adults.
  • Biography Born in Minnesota in 1939, he was raised by his grandmother and aunts. Paulsen used his work as a magazine proofreader to learn the craft of writing. In 1966, his first book was published under the title The Special War . Using his varied life experiences, especially those of an outdoorsman (a hunter, trapper, and three-time competitor in the 1,150 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race), Paulsen writes about what he knows best.
  • Much of Paulsen's work features the outdoors and highlights the importance of nature. He often uses "coming of age" themes in his novels, where a character masters the art of survival in isolation as a rite of passage to manhood and maturity. He is critical of technology and has been called a Luddite[1].
  • Some of Paulsen's most well-known books are the Hatchet series, although he has published many other popular novels including Dogsong, Harris and Me, and The Winter Room, which won the Newbery Honor. Woodsong and Winterdance are among the most popular books about the Iditarod
  • Paulsen competed in the 1983 and 1985 Iditarods. In 1990, due to heart problems, he gave up dog sledding, which he has described as the most difficult decision he has ever made. After more than a decade spent sailing all over the Pacific, Paulsen got back into dog sledding in 2003. In 2005, he was scheduled to compete in the 2005 Iditarod after a 20-year absence, but withdrew shortly before the start of the race. He participated in the 2006
  • Paulsen lives in La Luz, New Mexico with his wife, Ruth Wright Paulsen, an artist who has illustrated several of his books. He also maintains a 40-acre spread north of Willow, Alaska where he breeds and trains sled dogs for the Iditarod.
  • According to Paulsen's keynote speech on October 13 at the 2007 Sinclair Lewis writing conference in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, he will compete again in this year's Iditarod. Published works
  • The River (1991) Brian's Winter (Hatchet: Winter) (1996) Brian's Return (Hatchet: The Call) (1999) Brian's Hunt (2003)
  • Murphy (1987) Murphy's Gold (1988) Murphy's Herd (1989) Murphy's War (1990)
  • ) Murphy's Ambush (1995) Murphy's Trail (1996)
  • The Cookcamp (1991)
  • Alida's Song (1999)
  • Dunc's Doll (1992) Culpepper's Cannon (1992) Dunc Gets Tweaked (1992) Dunc's Halloween (1992) Dunc Breaks the Record (1992) Dunc and the Flaming Ghost (1992) Amos Gets Famous (1992) Dunc and Amos Hit the Big Top (1993) Dunc's Dump (1993) Dunc and the Scam Artists (1993) Dunc and Amos and the Red Tattoos (1993) Dunc's Undercover Christmas (1993) Wild Culpepper Cruise (1993) Dunc and the Haunted Castle (1993) Co
  • Prince Amos (1994) Coach Amos (1994) Amos and the Alien (1994) Dunc and Amos Meet the Slasher (1994) Dunc and the Greased Sticks of Doom (1994) Amos's Killer Concert Caper (1994) Amos Gets Married (1995) Amos Goes Bananas (1996) Dunc and Amos Go to the Dogs (1996) Amos and the Vampire (1996) Amos and the Chameleon Caper (1996) Amos Binder, Secret Agent (1996) Dunc and Amos on Thin Ice (1997) Super Am
  • Nightjohn (1993) Sarny (1997) The Tucket Adventures Mr. Tucket (1994) Call Me Francis Tucket (1995) Tucket's Ride (1997) Tucket's Gold (1999) Tucket's Home (2000) World of Adventure
  • Harris and Me (1993) The Schernoff Discoveries (1997) (2003) Molly McGinty Has a Really Good Day (2004) (2006) Lawn Boy (2007)
  • The Special War (1966) Some Birds Don't Fly (1968) Chance for Escape (1970) The Death Specialists (1976) The Implosion Effect (1976) C. B. Jockey (1977) The Golden Stick (1977) Tiltawhirl John (1977) The C. B. Radio Caper (1977)
  • Foxman (1977) Winterkill (1977) The Curse of the Cobra (1977) The Green Recruit (1978) The Spitball Gang (1980) Compkill (1981) The Sweeper (1981) Campkill (1981) Clutterkill (1982) Dancing Carl (1983)
  • Tracker (1984) Dogsong (1985) Sentries (1986) The Crossing (1987) The Island (1988) Night Rituals (1989) The Voyage of the Frog (1989) The Winter Room (1989) Canyons (1990) Kill Fee (1990) The Night the White Deer Died (1990) Woodsong (1990) The Monument (1991)
  • Forehanding and Backhanding (1978) Hiking and Backpacking (1978) Downhill, Hotdogging and Cross-Country (1979) Facing Off, Checking and Goaltending (1979) Launching, Floating High and Landing (1979) Pummeling, Falling and Getting Up-Sometimes (1979) Track, Enduro and Motocross (1979) Canoeing, Kayacking, and Rafting (1979) Going Very Fast in a Circle (1979) (1980) (1980) (1980) (1980) (1980) (1980) T.V. and Movie Animals (1980) (with Art Browne, Jr) (1981) (1981)
  • Tasting the Thunder (1992)
  • Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass (1992)
  • The Beet Fields (2000) The White Fox Chronicles (2000) The Quilt (2004) The Time Hackers (2005) The Legend of Bass Reeves (2006) Non-Fiction (1976) The Small Ones (1976) Hitting, Pitching, and Running (1976) (1976) Dribbling, Shooting, and Scoring (1976) Careers in an Airport (1977) Tackling, Running, and Kicking (1977) Riding, Roping, and Bulldogging (1977) (1977) Running, Jumping, and Throwing (1978)
  • (1978)
  • The Haymeadow (1992) A Christmas Sonata (1992) Dogteam (1993) The Fourteenth Summer (1993) The Car (1994) The Tent (1995) The Tortilla Factory (1995) The Rifle (1995) Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers (1996) Worksong (1997) Ice Race (1997) The Transall Saga (1998) Soldier's Heart (1998) Blue Light (1999)
  • Amos Meets the Slasher (1993)
  • Culpepper Adventures Special
  • Tales to Tickle the Funnybone
  • Other books
  • (1982) The Madonna Stories (1988) (1993) A Guide for Using Hatchet in the Classroom (1994) (1994) Father Water, Mother Woods (1994) (1996) My Life in Dog Years (1997) (1997) (1998) (1999) (2001) Caught by the Sea - My Life on Boats (2001) How Angel Petersen Got His Name (2003)
  • Awards and Recognition
  • berry Honor Book - Hatchet
  • Newberry Honor Book 1986 - Dogsong Newberry Honor Book - The Winter Room
  • References and footnotes
  • 2005–2006 Mark Twain Award master list addendum. (n.d.). Missouri Association of School Librarians. Retrieved March 12, 2006 from Missouri Association of School Librarians, Book Awards. Mark Twain Award master list 1971–2006. (April 29, 2005). Retrieved March 12, 2006 from Mid-Continent Public Library, Juvenile Award Winners ((pdf). Margaret A. Edwards Award. (n.d.). American Library Association. http://www.ala.org
  • Gary Paulsen's site Film adaptions by Gary Paulsen from the IMDb site 1990 young adult Sequoyah Award from Oklahoma Library Association External links
  • The Case of the Dirty Bird • Dunc's Doll • Culpepper's Cannon • Dunc Gets Tweaked • Dunc's Halloween • Dunc Breaks the Record • Dunc and the Flaming Ghost • Amos Gets Famous • Dunc
  • Nightjohn • SarnyThe Tucket AdventuresMr. Tucket • Call Me Francis Tucket • Tucket's Ride • Tucket's Gold • Tucket's HomeWorld of AdventureThe Legend of Red Horse Cavern • Rodomonte's Revenge • Escape from Fire Mountain • The Rock
  • Jockeys • Hook 'Em Snotty! • Danger on Midnight River • The Gorgon Slayer • Captive! • Project - A Perfect World • The Treasure of El Patron • Skydive! • The Seventh Crystal • The Creature of Black Water Lake • Time Benders • Grizzly • Thunder Valley • Curse of the Ruins • Flight of the Hawk
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      We have this book in our library.
  • Gordon Korman is a Canadian author of novels, primarily for children and young adults. In the seventh grade, his language arts teacher was a track and field coach. At a loss on what to do, the teacher simply allowed them to work on whatever they wanted for the rest of the year. For Gordon, this resulted in This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall, the first book in his "Bruno and Boots" series, arguably his most famous. It was published a year and a half later by the Scholastic Press, when Gordon was 14 years old. He currently resides in New York City, with his wife and three children.
  • Winner of the 2003 Young Reader's Choice Award, Intermediate Division
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  • Amanda Moorman, April 23, 2009 (view all comments by Amanda Moorman) This book is absolutely hilarious! I teach 8th grade language arts, and my students have enjoyed the few minutes a day I have spent reading it to them! Definately a must-have!
  • Amy Merk, January 24, 2008 (view all comments by Amy Merk) Korman writes with a contemporary voice that
  • really connected with my middle-school students. With relatively short chapters and witty wordwork, it also makes a great read aloud for grades five and up.
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    Book Trailer by Lurlene McDaniel!! It's about her book Breathless! :)
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    i saw that video it was awesome!!! (:
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      She wrote her books about her childhood!! Well......mostly!
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      Whitney you were here too! cool!!
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      Wow that is cool she had a lot of drama in her childhood! lol
  • Author Information Lisi Harrison was born in the fashion capital of our neighbor to the north, Toronto, Canada. She was the Queen Bee of many cliques and kept copious records of them in the journals she always had with her --- a hobby she has to this day. After university, Lisi moved to New York City where she began a career creating and developing shows for MTV, including "Room Raiders." Lisi also was the head writer for MTV Productions and a columnist for Jane magazine. Now that she has given up the glamour to write for teens full time, Lisi is currently at work on the next book in The Clique series with creative consulting done by Bee Bee, her fashionista Chihuahua.
  • Author Information Lisi Harrison was born in the fashion capital of our neighbor to the north, Toronto, Canada. She was the Queen Bee of many cliques and kept copious records of them in the journals she always had with her --- a hobby she has to this day. After university, Lisi moved to New York City where she began a career creating and developing shows for MTV, including "Room Raiders." Lisi also was the head writer for MTV Productions and a columnist for Jane magazine. Now that she has given up the glamour to write for teens full time, Lisi is currently at work on the next book in The Clique series with creative consulting done by Bee Bee, her fashionista Chihuahua.
  • Nicole Hicks on 18 Apr 11
     
    Great information about Lisi Harrison, author of The Clique Series.
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    I love you mason
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  • I'm Lurlene McDaniel and I've been writing for this market for a l-o-n-g time, and am still loving it. I'm called the "crying and dying" lady by librarians, and I write bittersweet stories, mostly about medical issues.
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  • "I write the kind of books I write because I want to help kids understand that nobody gets to pick what life dishes out to them. What you do get to choose is how you respond to what life gives you. No matter what happens, life is a gift. And always worth living." —Lurlene McDaniel
  • She attended the University of South Florida in Tampa, where she earned a B.A. in English.
  • To make certain that her books are medically accurate, McDaniel conducts extensive research. She interviews health care professionals and works with appropriate medical groups and hospice organizations, as well as the Tennessee Organ Donor Services. "I study medicine and traditional grief therapy techniques to give the novels a sense of serious medical reality," she says. "I also study the Bible to instill the human element --- the values and ethics often overlooked by the coldness of technology."
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  • McDaniel began writing about young adults when her son Sean was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at the age of 3. His illness changed the lives of everyone in her family forever. "I saw what life was like for someone who was chronically ill, and I experienced how it affected the dynamics of the family," says McDaniel. She says she found that writing about the trauma and its effects was therapeutic
  • In addition to her popular YA novels, McDaniel has written radio and television scripts, promotional and advertising copy, and a magazine column. She is a frequent speaker at schools, writers' conferences, and conventions.
  • Three of her novels were selected by children as IRA-CBC Children's Choices: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, TOO YOUNG TO DIE, and GOODBYE DOESN'T MEAN FOREVER. SIX MONTHS TO LIVE has been placed in a literary time capsule at the Library of Congress, to be opened in the year 2089.
  • McDaniel's works include TO LIVE AGAIN, one of the Dawn Rochelle books; ANGEL OF MERCY, the companion to ANGEL OF HOPE; and HOW DO I LOVE THEE, three stories about young couples who are inspired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning's beautiful sonnet. In her novel, TELLING CHRISTINA GOODBYE, McDaniel shows that everything can change in the blink of an eye.
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  • When I found out Heart to Heart was being released in June, I tried to find time to read Prey before it arrived, but to no avail. I was absolutely intrigued by the premise of Heart to Heart, so the day it was released I went and snatched it up
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