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Margaret Haddix Book Report Help - 0 views

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      This has a lot of great facts about Margaret Haddix!! Read on!!
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      i read it does i love it!!!!(:
  •  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:
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  • • WHY I WRITE
  • • ADVICE I GIVE KIDS
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    awesome information about Margaret haddix
Bailee Carter

Answers.com - Has Lurlene McDaniel won any awards - 0 views

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      whats a rita award
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The Clique - The Official Site - 0 views

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    The Official Website!
hunter hooten

Harry Mazer (1925-) Biography - Personal, Addresses, Career, Member, Honors Awards, Wri... - 2 views

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  • Best of the Best Books designation, American Library Association (ALA), 1970–73, for Snow Bound; Kirkus Choice
  • 4, for The Dollar Man; Best Books for Young Adults designation, ALA, 1977, and Children's Choice designation,
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  • International Reading Association (IRA)/Children's Book Council (CBC), 1978, both for The Solid Gold Kid; Best Books for Young Adults designation
  • , ALA, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award nominee, Vermont Congress of Parents and Teachers/Vermont Department of Libraries, both 1979, both for The War on Villa Street;
  • Best Books designation, New York Times, 1979, Books for the Teen Age inclusion, New York Public Library, 1980, Best Books for Young Adults designation,
    • hunter hooten
       
      He has a lot of awards
    • nick wood
       
      yes he dose
    • hunter hooten
       
      He has written 19 novels for young adults
    • nick wood
       
      19, that's a lot
    • hunter hooten
       
      He has written 3 with his wife ,Norma,
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      yep
  • World War II was on Mazer's mind also. At age seventeen he qualified to join the U.S. Army Air Force Cadets, but had to wait until he was eighteen to serve.
  • "I prayed that the war didn't end before I got in,"
  • he remembered in his SAAS essay. Mazer served for two and a half years, starting out as an airplane mechanic, then training as a ball-turret and waist gunner.
  • He was assigned to a crew on a B-17 bomber and in December of 1944 headed for Europe, where the crew flew their first mission two months later
  • In April their plane was shot down over Czechoslovakia, and only Mazer and one other crew member survived.
  • "I remember thinking afterward that there had to be a reason why I had survived," recalled the author. "I didn't think it was God. It was chance. Luck. But why me? Chance can't be denied as a factor in life, but I clung to the thought that there was a reason for my survival."
  • After ten years of factory work, Mazer became a teacher.
  • It was at this point that he and Norma discovered that they both longed to be writers
  • In the meantime, Mazer lost his teaching job and returned to factory work, taking paperbacks with him, trying to understand how a story worked. The insurance money from an accident finally enabled him to quit his job and begin writing full-time.
  • Mazer was discharged from the army in October of 1945, and days later began attending classes at a liberal arts college.
  • He began writing, but his work
  • "was too serious and self-conscious. I turned each word over in my head before I allowed it out into the open…. I wrote, but I was full of doubt, my standards were miles higher than my abilities. I suffered over what I wrote and didn't write any more than I had to."
  • The Solid Gold Kid, Delacorte (New York, NY), 1977. Heartbeat, Bantam (New York, NY), 1989. Bright Days, Stupid Nights, Bantam (New York, NY), 1992.
  • the courses that most interested him were English and history.
  • Jobs were scarce at the time, and many employers would not hire Jews. If he had been a dutiful son, Mazer later reflected, he would have become a teacher; "but I was in rebellion. I was impatient. I wanted to be great, famous…. My secret desire was to be a writer, but I knew nothing about how to make it happen. I had the idea that if I could only write it down, if I could only put all my feelings into words, I would finally figure everything out (whatever everything was)."
  • Agent—George Nicholson, Sterling Lord Literisti
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Teenreads.com - THE CLIQUE Series by Lisi Harrison - 1 views

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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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      <3 mason
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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.
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    Great information about Lisi Harrison, author of The Clique Series.
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    I love you mason
Lindsay Thompson

» About Lurlene - 1 views

    • Lindsay Thompson
       
      She is an amazing author!!! I love her!! Check out Prey, and Hit and Run!!
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      hey don't forget about breathless!! :)
  • McDaniel has written over 40 novels about kids who face life-threatening illnesses, who sometimes do not survive. These are powerful, inspirational stories about courage, love, and strength in the face of overwhelming trauma. McDaniel’s books touch the hearts and spirits of the teenagers and adults who read them. Her following is a devoted group of appreciative fans. McDaniel says: “These are books that challenge you and make you think
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    i thought this was cool!
Sam Hughes

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  • Despite the acclaim, he still feels his greatest accomplishment is helping instill a joy of reading in young people.
  • he said.
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      sam you are so lucky to have R.L. stein i was so praying to get him.... and you have really good information
  • R.L. Stine said he loved the classic EC horror comics as a child.
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  • “Banana” series for 10 years.
  • His first one, “Blind Date,” took three months
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    great accomplishment in life
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Meg Cabot - Henrietta - 0 views

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    Meg Cabot
Sam Hughes

What elementary school did r.l. stine go to? | ChaCha Answers - 0 views

  • What elementary school did r.l. stine go to?
  • Scary book writer R L Stine attended Cassingham Elementary School in Bexley, Ohio.
Damon Lahar

Garth Nix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 4 views

  • He worked in a Canberra bookshop after graduation, before moving to Sydney in 1987
Damon Lahar

Garth Nix biography, books, interviews and reviews on Fantasy Book Review - 1 views

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    i think this website will help people find things on people.
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Meg Cabot - 0 views

    • Shelby Tomlinson
       
      This was her a while back. She has shorter hair now, and two cats: Henrietta and Gem.
    • Shelby Tomlinson
       
      At the bottom of the page, you can see almost all the books she has written: over 50!!!!!!
    • Emily=) bowles
       
      How many has she written total
    • Shelby Tomlinson
       
      61 total novels and 9 short stories
    • Shelby Tomlinson
       
      Meg's middle name is Patricia
  • Meg Cabot(Meggin Patricia Cabot)&nbsp;&nbsp;(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.&nbsp;
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    awesome!!!!!!!! good info!
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    have you found out her middle name?
Damon Lahar

The Fall (Garth Nix novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

  • Tal, a young Chosen boy, is climbing the Red Tower with his shadowguard to steal a Sunstone. He reaches just below the Veil when he hears a cry far below. For a moment, Tal thinks he has been caught, only to realize the scream was from his little brother, who has secretly followed him. It was he that was caught by a Spiritshadow. Tal decides it would be too risky to climb back down to help his little brother, so he proceeds to climb the Veil. He arrives above the Veil only to meet a Spiritshadow without a master, calling itself the 'Keeper'. After briefly fighting with it, it eventually sends Tal falling off the Red Tower.
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Bailee Carter

Lurlene McDaniel: Author of Hope | Suite101.com - 0 views

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      wow this is a good site:) love it (:
  • She attended University of South Florida, receiving her degree in English, and currently lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee. McDaniel has moved on now, not just as an author, but also a public speaker, traveling the nation speaking at high schools and conventions.
  • Lurlene McDaniel, born in 1948, has been writing books for young adults since her son, Sean, was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at the age of 3. She realized how drastically it was changing her world, and wanted to create a way for other people, particularly teens, to deal with tragic issues in their own lives. As a child, McDaniel moved around all over the country, as her father was in the Navy
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  • She attended University of South Florida, receiving her degree in English, and currently lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee. McDaniel has moved on now, not just as an author, but also a public speaker, traveling the nation speaking at high schools and conventions.
Damon Lahar

A Conversation With Garth Nix *Writers Write -- The IWJ* - 3 views

  • Leaving to travel in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia in 1993, Garth returned to Sydney in 1994 to work as a PR consultant.
  • Award-winning Young Adult and Children's author Garth Nix was born in 1963. He grew up in Canberra, the federal capital of Australia. After working briefly for the Australian Government, Garth took a long holiday in Europe, returning in 1983 to study for a B.A. in Professional Writing from the University of Canberra. Around this time, he also put in four years as a part-time soldier (or "weekend warrior") with the Australian Army Reserve. After taking his degree in 1986, he worked in a bookshop for some time, then moved to Sydney, where he had various jobs in the publishing industry, from sales rep to publicist, until in 1991 he became a senior editor with a major multinational publisher.
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    his young adult years
Bailee Carter

TeacherTube Videos - BREATHLESS, by Lurlene McDaniel T - 1 views

    • Bailee Carter
       
      this video is amazing you should watch it!:)
Lindsay Thompson

TeacherTube Videos - BREATHLESS, by Lurlene McDaniel T - 0 views

  • BREATHLESS, by Lurlene McDaniel
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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!!! (:
Carly Felty

Margaret Haddix Biography - 3 views

  • 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
  • &nbsp; As a kid, I also longed for a career that I didn’t actually believe real people got to do.
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      Margaret Haddix has 2 kids
  • &nbsp; I grew up on a farm about halfway between two small towns:
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  • Washington Court House, Ohio, and Sabina, Ohio.
  • 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!”
  • But then my
  • mom would laugh and say, “That’s exactly what my parents always
  • said to me when I was a kid!
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • an assistant coo
  • I worked on my school newspaper and had summer internships at newspapers in Urbana, Ohio; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Indianapolis, Indiana. After college,
  • then quickly moved back to Indianapolis to work as a newspaper reporter there.
  • 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;
  • 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?”
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    • Carly Felty
       
      How she got started and some of her history.
    • shayla daugherty
       
      this has lots of stuff about her childhood and her family.
  • 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
  • &nbsp; I grew up on a farm about halfway between two small towns: Washington Court House, Ohio, and Sabina, Ohio.
  • &nbsp;&nbsp; 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.
  • 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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  • 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.
  • &nbsp; 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.
  • &nbsp;&nbsp; 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
  • &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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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