Her father was a farmer and her mother, a nurse; her time as a young woman was equally split between home and farm chores with her three siblings
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Husband: Doug Haddix (m. 1987)Daughter: MeredithSon: Connor
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When my daughter was in third grade, she brought home a list one day that described what everyone in her class wanted to be when they grew up. Most of the kids clearly picked the same jobs their parents held. But a few went for the fantastical
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As a kid, I also longed for a career that I didn’t actually believe real people got to do.
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When we went on family vacations, my parents were always saying things like, “Would you guys stop reading for a minute and look out the window? That’s the Grand Canyon we’re driving past!”
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The people I met in books always seemed very real to me: as a kid, I counted among my friends the whip-smart New York kids of E.L. Konigsburg books, Harriet the Spy, Anne of Green Gables, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Anne Frank, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, The Little Princess’ Sara Crewe, L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Byrd Starr, Beanie Malone
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I did major in creative writing, but I also majored in journalism (and history, just for fun). Except for the summer after my freshman year of college, when I worked as
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at a 4-H camp (which was lots and lots of fun), every job I’ve held since then has been related to writing in some way.
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I worked on my school newspaper and had summer internships at newspapers in Urbana, Ohio; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Indianapolis, Indiana. After college,
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During high school, I acted in school plays; played flute and piccolo in the marching, pep and symphonic bands; sang in the school choir; worked on the school newspaper; ran track one year; competed on a school quick-recall team; served on the county junior fair board;
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Living in a foreign country is a great way to force yourself to really think about, “Who am I?” “What shaped me as a person?” “Why do I believe what I believe?” “What do I want out of life?” “What shaped all these people I see around me?” “Why do they believe what they believe?” “What do they want out of life?”
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For most of my time as a journalist, I worked as a general assignment reporter, which meant that I could be covering a fire one day, a scientific breakthrough the next, a politician’s news conference the next. (Or, on really busy days, some combination of several vastly different
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It also inspired me to play with different plots and characters and settings in my head. Facts weren’t enough for me. I still also wanted fiction
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But I would go home and also write different kinds of stories, ones based more on my own imagination and my sense that there could be some sort of higher truth than just “facts.”
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Margaret Peterson Haddix was born in 1964 near Washington Court House, Ohio, where she grew up on a farm.
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Margaret Peterson Haddix was born in 1964 near Washington Court House, Ohio, where she grew up on a farm.
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She worked as a newspaper copy editor in Fort Wayne, Indiana; as a newspaper reporter in Indianapolis; and as a community college instructor and freelance writer in Danville, Illinois.
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Double Identity. The setting of this story is simpler and with fewer surprises than some of Haddix’ other novels.
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such as what makes us human, what causes our suffering even if on the surface things may seem as if they’re being done with love and best intentions.
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where one day parents or our closest people whom we trust suddenly become inexplicable enigmas and the havoc and fear that come with the change.
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detective story that is about self, love, trust, mourning, and hope as the early teen girl sets out to find why her parents act weird, hide secrets and end up going into hiding themselves,
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Science and capital are so organised that if someone refuses the unjust standards, even in an attempt to escape, they are forced to rely on the capitalist that destroys those attempts.
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idealist parents who, in an attempt to escape the cruelty of the contemporary megalomaniac and criminal world, attempt to build a utopia in a Clifton Village.
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the death of a dream is as tragic as the death of children: without his dream, the father will never be the same and Jessie and her mother know this.