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Margaret Haddix Book Report Help - 0 views

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  •  MOTHER’S OCCUPATION:
  •  BIRTHPLACE
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  • WHERE I GREW UP
  •  FATHER’S OCCUPATIO
  •  BIRTHDATE:
  •  MARRIED:
  •  WHERE I WENT TO COLLEGE:
  • • WHAT I STUDIED
  • • JOBS I HELD BEFORE MY FIRST BOOK WAS PUBLISHED:
  • • PLACES I’VE LIVED AS AN ADULT
  •  WHERE I LIVE NOW:
  • IBLINGS
  • • HUSBAND’S NAM
  • • HUSBAND’S OCCUPATION:
  •  CHILDREN:
  •  CHILDREN’S NAMES:
  • • HOBBIES
  •  FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED:
  •  DATE OF FIRST BOOK PUBLICATION:
  • • NUMBER OF BOOKS WRITTEN:
  • WHY I WRITE (
  • • WHY I WRITE
  • • ADVICE I GIVE KIDS
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  • The first two bestsellin
  • g Shadow Children books from powerhouse writer Margaret Peterson Haddix, together in one volu
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Margaret Haddix Biography - 3 views

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Haddix's biography

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  • But a few went for the fantastical.
  • 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
  • ay that described what everyone in her class wanted to be when they grew up. Most of
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      How she got started and some of her history.
  • I come from both a long line of farmers, and a long line of bookworms.
  • nurses (like my mom)
  • One kid said he wanted to be a spy; another was longing to be a professional dirt-biker; another saw himself as a future movie director. And I looked at that list and thought, “Yep, I’m with the dirt-biker and the spy.”
  • farmers (like my dad
  •   I grew up on a farm about halfway between two small towns: Washington Court House, Ohio, and Sabina, Ohio.
  •    As a kid, I also longed for a career that I didn’t actually believe real people got to do. The far-out, only-in-your dreams career I wanted was to be an author.
  • “Would you guys stop reading for a minute and look out the window? That’s the Grand Canyon we’re driving past!
  • How many of my ancestors, immigrating to America, had to admonish their kids, “Would you put down that book and look out? Don’t you want to see our new home?”
  • To me, it didn’t seem to be much of a step to go from loving books to wanting to create books of my own
  • 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, and many, many others.
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  • One kid said he wanted to be a spy; another was longing to be a professional dirt-biker; another saw himself as a future movie director. And I looked at that list and thought, “Yep, I’m with the dirt-biker and the spy.”
  • and did volunteer work through my church and 4-H clubs.
  • Washington Court House, Ohio, and Sabina, Ohio.
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  • (Lest you think I was some multi-talented prodigy, I should point out that I’m a terrible singer, a terrible actor, and, as a runner, I’m really, really good at walking
  • One of the advantages of going to a fairly small school is that, if you’re not too afraid of making a fool of yourself, they’ll let you try just about any activity.
  • ) In college, one of the best things I did was spend a semester studying in Luxembourg, a small country nestled between France, Germany and Belgium.
  • fairly small school is that, if you’r
  • But it was being a reporter that really gave me the opportunity to meet lots of different people, in vastly different circumstances. It never failed to amaze me that I could sit down with people, and begin asking really, really nosy questions, and because I was from the newspaper, they would almost always answer.
  • events, all at once.)
  • or most of my time as a journalist, I worked as a general assignment report
  • characters and settings in my head. Facts weren’t enough for me. I still als
  • Somehow, for me, hearing so many different stories from so many different people--and witnessing so many different events--didn’t just inspire me to write it all down
  • ould go home and also write different kinds of stories, ones based mo
  • . So during this time, I had a lot more ideas for fiction than I actually wrote down.
  •   It was also during this time that I got married. My husband, Doug, and I met in college, and he also went into journalism right after school.
  • When he got a job as city editor of a newspaper in Danville, Illinois, it seemed like a big complication for my career. If I wanted to continue
  • as a newspaper reporter, I knew I’d probably have to have my husband as a boss.
  • My husband and I agreed to see this complication as an opportunity: this would be my chance to concentrate on fiction
  • . I took part-time jobs teaching writing at a community college and doing freelance business writing, but I also wrote Running Out of Time; Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey; and numerous short stories. While I was working on those, my husband and I also decided to start a family.
  • Like most writers, I went through an agonizing phase of submitting my work and collecting nothing but rejection letters for quite a while
  • For me, this phase lasted long enough that, by the time I sold my first two books (both at once, actually) our daughter, Meredith, was a year and a half old, and I was pregnant with our second child, Connor.
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  • Still, it was a little challenging to be a newly published author at the same time that I was becoming a new mother.
  • For those first few years, I wrote only during my kids’ naptime, when I probably should have been napping myself.
  •    Since then, my life has changed quite a bit. My husband and kids and I moved from Illinois to Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, to Columbus, Ohio
  •     And that’s why I became a writer.
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    Has a lot of good info about her life and how she got started.
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  • Critics noted that Haddix relies on a much more familiar set-up for her second novel, placing Tish Bonner, the main character in Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey, in an English class where she is required to keep a journal, giving the reader an insider's view of her troubles.
  • . The same writer further described this second book as a "tough-edged if familiar story of a beleaguered high school girl" who confides all her difficulties in her diary.
  • After becoming the mother of two children, Meredith and Connor, Haddix admitted "amuse(ment) that I felt like I didn't have enough time to write before they were born. It's much harder now. . . . And a lot of times when I'm doing the ordinary things that go along with having two kids, a husband, and a house . . . I'm listening to a voice in my head insisting, 'Write about me!' or suggesting things like, 'What if Dorry's dad confronts her before she goes to the mall?' Now, I'll be the first to admit that it sounds a little weird to have voices talking in my head, but I wouldn't have it any other way."
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  • Critics responded positively to the theme of this futuristic novel, applauding, as did a Publishers Weekly contributor, for example, "the unsettling, thought-provoking premise (which) should suffice to keep readers hooked."
  • Born April 9, 1964, in Washington Court House, OH; daughter of John Albert (a farmer) and Marilee Grace (a nurse; maiden name, Greshel) Peterson; married Doug Haddix (a newspaper editor), October 3, 1987; children: Meredith, Connor. Avocation: Travel. Education: Miami University, B.A. (English; summa cum laude), 1986. Religion: Presbyterian. Memberships: Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Phi Beta Kappa. Addresses: Agent--Tracey Adams, McIntoch & Otis, 353 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10016.
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    More about her life.
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Ohio Reading Road Trip | Margaret Peterson Haddix Biography - 1 views

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  • loved if she became a journalist. So when she attended college at Miami University in Oxford, Haddix majored in English and began writing for the school newspaper by the end of her freshman year.
  • (two brothers and one sister),
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  • "What I hated was not any particular subject, but anything that reeked of busy work; all the pointless assignments that took a lot of time but taught me nothing.
  • e wild and entertaining
  • Though her dad's stories sparked an interest in writing, life in a small town afforded
  • addix grew up on a farm in Washington Courthouse, Ohio - the same small town where her family has lived since the early 1800s.
  • l the while, though, Haddix worried that her rising career in journalism was distracting her from her true calling: that of a fiction writer.
  • offer in Illinois, Haddix quit her job at the Indianapolis News and moved north with him. There, she worked various part-time and temporary jobs, including English teacher at a community college in Danville, in order to start he
  • as two ch
  • novels, including the first three of seven books in the "Among the…" series (Among the Barons, Among the Betrayed, and Among the Imposters). She's currently working on book four, Among the Brave, and another, nonseries title, called Say What? She has won an International Reading Association Children's Book Award, and the American Library Association has na
  • es writing for young audiences, Haddix replied: "Teenagers are naturally such good characters in books. They hav
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      she got many awards for her books
  • Her books for young readers include Running Out of Time, Among the Hidden, Among the Impostors, Among the Betrayed, and The Girl with 500 Middle Names.
  • Her work has been honored with the International Reading Association Children's Book Award, American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers citations, and several state Readers' Choice Awards. Margaret Peterson Haddix lives with her family in Columbus, Ohio.
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