The William Allen White Children's Book Award is an annual book award chosen by Kansas

Kansas

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 students. It was established by Ruth Garver Gagliardo in 1952, in memory of William Allen White

William Allen White

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 and is administered by Emporia State University

Emporia State University

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. It was the first statewide readers' choice book award in the United States

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. From 2001, two winners have been chosen each year, one by students in grades 3 to 5

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 and the other by students in grades 6 to 8

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. A selection committee nominates a short list

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 of 24 books from which the students choose the winners.

Recipients, 1953–2000

Year	Author	Title
1953	Elizabeth Yates	Amos Fortune, Free Man Amos Fortune, Free Man Amos Fortune, Free Man is a biographical novel by Elizabeth Yates that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1951. It is about a young African prince, who when people come and attack his tribe, is captured and taken to America as a slave...
1954	Doris Gates	Little Vic
1955	Jean Bailey	Cherokee Bill: Oklahoma Pacer
1956	Marguerite Henry Marguerite Henry Marguerite Henry was an American writer. Henry inspired children all over the world with her love of animals, especially horses. The author of fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals, her work has captivated entire generations of children and young adults and won...	Brighty of the Grand Canyon Brighty of the Grand Canyon Brighty of the Grand Canyon is a 1967 film based on a 1953 children's novel of the same name by Marguerite Henry, a fictionalized account of a real-life burro named "Brighty", who lived in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River from about 1892-1922....
1957	Phoebe Erickson	Daniel 'Coon
1958	Elliott Arnold Elliott Arnold Elliott Arnold was an American newspaper feature writer, novelist, and screenwriter.He was born in Brooklyn, New York and became a feature writer with the New York World-Telegram...	White Falcon
1959	Fred Gipson Fred Gipson Frederick Benjamin Gipson was an American author. He is best known for writing the 1956 novel Old Yeller, which became a popular 1957 Walt Disney film. Gipson was born on a farm near Mason in the Texas Hill Country, the son of Beck Gipson and the former Emma Deishler...	Old Yeller Old Yeller Old Yeller is a 1956 children's novel by Fred Gipson, which received a Newbery Honor in 1957. It was illustrated by Carl Burger. The title is taken from the name of the big yellow dog who is the center of the book's story...
1960	William O. Steele William O. Steele William O. Steele was an American author. He was married to another author, Mary Quintard Govan.Steele was born in Franklin, Tennessee, the son of Core and Sue, and spent a large amount of his youth exploring the woods around his home. This led to an interest in the history of the area and of its...	Flaming Arrows
1961	Keith Robertson	Henry Reed, Inc. Henry Reed (fictional character) Henry Reed is the main character and narrator of a series of five children's novels by Keith Robertson. The first four novels were illustrated by Robert McCloskey....
1962	Catherine Owens Peare	The Helen Keller Story
1963	Scott O'Dell Scott O'Dell Scott O'Dell was an American children's author who wrote 26 novels for young people, along with three novels for adults and four nonfiction books...	Island of the Blue Dolphins Island of the Blue Dolphins Island of the Blue Dolphins is a 1960 American children's novel written by Scott O'Dell. The story of a young girl stranded for years on an island off the California coast, it is based on the true story of Juana Maria, a Nicoleño Indian left alone for 18 years on San Nicolas Island in the 19th...
1964	Sheila Burnford Sheila Burnford Sheila Philip Cochrane Burnford, née Every, was a British novelist.Born in Scotland but brought up in various parts of the United Kingdom, she attended St. George's School, Edinburgh and Harrogate Ladies College. In 1941 she married Doctor David Burnford, with whom she had three children. During...	The Incredible Journey The Incredible Journey The Incredible Journey, by British author Sheila Burnford, is a children's book first published by Hodder & they travel 300 miles through the Canadian wilderness searching for their beloved masters. It reveals the suffering and stress of an arduous journey, together with the unwavering loyalty and...
1965	Zachary Ball	Bristle Face
1966	Sterling North Sterling North Thomas Sterling North was an American author of books for children and adults, including 1963's bestselling Rascal. North, who professionally went by "Sterling North", was born on the second floor of a farmhouse on the shores of Lake Koshkonong, a few miles from Edgerton, Wisconsin, in 1906, and...	Rascal Rascal (book) Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era, often referred to as Rascal, is a 1963 children's book by Sterling North about his childhood in Wisconsin.-Publication:Rascal was published in 1963...
1967	Annabel and Edgar Johnson	The Grizzly
1968	Beverly Cleary Beverly Cleary Beverly Cleary is an American author. Educated at colleges in California and Washington, she worked as a librarian before writing children's books. Cleary has written more than 30 books for young adults and children. Some of her best-known characters are Henry Huggins, Ribsy, Beatrice Quimby, her...	The Mouse and the Motorcycle The Mouse and the Motorcycle The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary and published in 1965.- Plot summary :Ralph is a mouse who lives in the run-down Mountain View Inn, a battered resort hotel in the Sierra Nevada of California. Ralph longs for a life of danger and speed, wishing to get...
1969	Keith Robertson	Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service Henry Reed (fictional character) Henry Reed is the main character and narrator of a series of five children's novels by Keith Robertson. The first four novels were illustrated by Robert McCloskey....
1970	E. L. Konigsburg E. L. Konigsburg Elaine Lobl Konigsburg is an American author and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. She is one of five authors to win two Newbery Medals, awarded annually for one contribution to American children's literature.Her first two manuscripts were submitted to editor Jean E...	From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is a novel by E. L. Konigsburg. It was published by Atheneum Books in 1967, the second published from two manuscripts the new writer had submitted to editor Jean E...
1971	Walter Morey	Kävik the Wolf Dog Kävik the Wolf Dog Kävik the Wolf Dog is a novel written in 1968 by Walt Morey.-Made-for-TV movie:A made-for-TV movie based on the book aired under the Sunday Big Event umbrella on NBC in 1979.-Plot:...
1972	Barbara Corcoran	Sasha: My Friend
1973	E. B. White E. B. White Elwyn Brooks White , usually known as E. B. White, was an American writer. A long-time contributor to The New Yorker magazine, he also wrote many famous books for both adults and children, such as the popular Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, and co-authored a widely used writing guide, The...	The Trumpet of the Swan The Trumpet of the Swan The Trumpet of the Swan is a children's novel by E.B. White published in 1970. It tells the story of Louis, a Trumpeter Swan born without a voice and trying to overcome it by learning to play a trumpet, always trying to impress a beautiful pen named Serena.-Plot summary:In Canada in the spring of...
1974	Robert C. O'Brien Robert C. O'Brien Robert Leslie Conly was an American author and journalist for National Geographic Magazine.-Early life:...	Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is a 1971 children's book by Robert C. O'Brien. Illustrated by Zena Bernstein, it won the 1972 Newbery Medal. A film adaptation, The Secret of NIMH, was released in 1982....
	Zilpha Keatley Snyder Zilpha Keatley Snyder Zilpha Keatley Snyder is an acclaimed author of books for children and young adults. Snyder was awarded three Newbery Honor Book awards for The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid and The Witches of Worm. Since 1964, Snyder has completed 43 books...	The Headless Cupid The Headless Cupid The Headless Cupid is a children's novel by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. First published in 1971, the book was a Newbery Honor book for 1972.When the Stanley family moves to a large old country house, plenty of problems arise for eleven-year-old David, including adjusting to his new step-mother, taking...
1975	William Steig William Steig William Steig was a prolific American cartoonist, sculptor and, later in life, an author of popular children's literature...	Dominic
1976	Beverly Cleary Beverly Cleary Beverly Cleary is an American author. Educated at colleges in California and Washington, she worked as a librarian before writing children's books. Cleary has written more than 30 books for young adults and children. Some of her best-known characters are Henry Huggins, Ribsy, Beatrice Quimby, her...	Socks
1977	George Selden	Harry Cat's Pet Puppy
1978	Jean Van Leeuwen Jean Van Leeuwen Jean Van Leeuwen is the author of over forty children's books, including the Oliver Pig series. She currently lives in Chappaqua, New York.-The Great Mouse Gang Series:...	The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper
1979	Wilson Rawls Wilson Rawls Wilson Rawls, born Woodrow Wilson Rawls, was an American writer best known for his books Where the Red Fern Grows and Summer of the Monkeys.- Childhood :...	Summer of the Monkeys Summer of the Monkeys Summer of the Monkeys is a 1976 children's novel written by Wilson Rawls. The book was published by Doubleday and was the winner of the William Allen White Book Award and the California Young Reader Medal....
1980	Betsy Byars Betsy Byars Betsy Cromer Byars is an American author of children's books. Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal...	The Pinballs The Pinballs The Pinballs is a 1976 young adult novel by American author Betsy Byars. The story is about three foster children, Carlie, Harvey and Thomas J., who have been taken in by the Masons, a couple who have cared for many other foster children in the past in also have some personal problems . Carlie...
1981	Katherine Paterson Katherine Paterson Katherine Paterson is an American author of children's novels. She wrote Bridge to Terabithia and has received several of the major international awards for children's literature.- Early life:...	The Great Gilly Hopkins
1982	C. S. Adler C. S. Adler C.S. Adler is an American children's book author. She has been a full-time writer since the publication of her first book, The Magic of the Glits, in 1979. That book won both the William Allen White Award and the Golden Kite Award.She has since published 43 more books for young readers...	The Magic of the Glits
1983	Barbara Brooks Wallace Barbara Brooks Wallace Barbara Brooks Wallace is an award-winning American children's writer, including NLAPW Children's Book Award and International Youth Library "Best of the Best" for Claudia and William Allen White Children's Book Award for Peppermints in the Parlor .Wallace was born and spent her childhood in...	Peppermints in the Parlor
1984	Shel Silverstein Shel Silverstein Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein , was an American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter and author of children's books. He styled himself as Uncle Shelby in his children's books...	A Light in the Attic A Light in the Attic A Light in the Attic is a collection of poems by the American poet, writer, and children's author Shel Silverstein. It was first published by HarperCollins in 1981...
1985	Quang Nhuong Huynh Quang Nhuong Huynh Quang Nhuong Huynh is a Vietnamese author. He has written two books, and has received several awards for his autobiographical work The Land I Lost. Huynh is credited as being the first Vietnamese to write fiction and non-fiction in English.-Biography:Huynh was born August 22, 1946 in My Tho,...	The Land I Lost The Land I Lost The Land I Lost is an autobiographical book that centers on the life of the author, Quang Nhuong Huynh. The book was first published by HarperTrophy in 1986, and was illustrated by Vo-Dinh Mai. Huynh's second book, Water Buffalo Days, used multiple passages originally published in The Land I Lost,...
1986	Mary Downing Hahn Mary Downing Hahn Mary Downing Hahn is an award-winning American author of young adult novels. Her first published book, The Sara Summer, was released in 1979, when she was forty-one years old. Since then she has written over twenty novels...	Daphne's Book
1987	Robert Kimmel Smith Robert Kimmel Smith Robert Kimmel Smith is an award-winning American children's author.Between 1957 and 1965, he was a copywriter at an ad agency, and was a partner and creative director at Smith and Toback from 1967 to 1970. In 1970 he became a full-time writer; his first children's book, Chocolate Fever, was...	The War with Grandpa
1988	Betsy Byars Betsy Byars Betsy Cromer Byars is an American author of children's books. Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal...	Cracker Johnson
1989	Marion Dane Bauer	On My Honor On My Honor On My Honor is a short Newbery Honor-winning novel by Marion Dane Bauer, first published in 1986. It is about two boys, Joel and Tony, who are friends despite their very different characters. Tony, who is adventurous, challenges Joel, who is more responsible and cautious, to climb a large and...
1990	Gary Paulsen Gary Paulsen Gary James 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 , 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for young adults and teens.-Biography:Gary Paulsen was born in...	Hatchet Hatchet (novel) Hatchet is a 1987 three-time Newbery Honor-winning wilderness survival novel written by Gary Paulsen. It is the first novel in the Hatchet series and is followed by four sequels....
1991	Bill Wallace	Beauty
1992	Mary Downing Hahn Mary Downing Hahn Mary Downing Hahn is an award-winning American author of young adult novels. Her first published book, The Sara Summer, was released in 1979, when she was forty-one years old. Since then she has written over twenty novels...	The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story is a children's novel by Mary Downing Hahn. It was first published in 1989.-Plot summary:In The Doll in the Garden, Ashley and her widowed mother rent a house once owned by mean Ms. Cooper. While looking in Ms. Cooper's dead rose garden with her neighbor,...
1993	Jerry Spinelli Jerry Spinelli Jerry Spinelli is an author of children's novels on adolescence and early adulthood. He is best known for the novels Maniac Magee and Wringer....	Maniac Magee Maniac Magee Maniac Magee is a young adult fiction novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and published in 1990. Exploring themes of racism and homelessness, it follows the story of an orphaned boy looking for a home in the fictional Pennsylvania town of Two Mills...
1994	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is an American author best known for her children and young adult fiction books. Naylor is best known for her children's-novel trilogy Shiloh , Shiloh Season and Saving Shiloh, all made into movies...	Shiloh
1995	June Rae Wood June Rae Wood June Rae Wood is an American author. One of her books, The Man Who Loved Clowns, won the Mark Twain Award and William Allen White Award in 1995.- Early life :...	The Man Who Loved Clowns The Man Who Loved Clowns The Man Who Loved Clowns is a book by June Rae Wood about a girl named Delrita who wants to be "invisible" at her new school. She lives with her parents and uncle, who has Down syndrome. The story is based on Wood's real life story of life with her uncle Richard, who himself had Down's Syndrome...
1996	Lois Lowry Lois Lowry Lois Lowry is an American author of children's literature. She began her career as a photographer and a freelance journalist during the early 1970s...	The Giver The Giver The Giver is a 1993 soft science fiction novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life...
1997	Mary Downing Hahn Mary Downing Hahn Mary Downing Hahn is an award-winning American author of young adult novels. Her first published book, The Sara Summer, was released in 1979, when she was forty-one years old. Since then she has written over twenty novels...	Time For Andrew: A Ghost Story
1998	Barbara Park Barbara Park Barbara Lynne Park is an author of children's books.Barbara Park is the daughter of a merchant and a secretary, Doris and Brooke Tidswell. She grew up in Mount Holly Township, New Jersey. From 1965 to 1967, she attended Rider College, later finishing her B.S. in 1969 at the University of Alabama....	Mick Harte Was Here
1999	Andrew Clements Andrew Clements Andrew Clements is an American author of children's books. Clements grew up in Camden, New Jersey and Springfield, Illinois, United States,. As a child, he enjoyed summers at a lakeside cabin in Maine where he spent his days swimming and fishing and his evenings reading books...	Frindle Frindle Frindle is a 1996 children's novel written by American author Andrew Clements and illustrated by Brian Selznick.Frindle is Clements's first novel. All his previous works had been picture books...
2000	P. J. Petersen	White Water

Recipients, 2001–

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!colspan="2"|Winner, Grades 3–5
!colspan="2"|Winner, Grades 6–8
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| 2001
| Cynthia C. DeFelice
| The Ghost of Fossil Glen
| Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar is an American author of children's books who is best known for the Sideways Stories From Wayside School book series and the 1998 novel Holes, for which Sachar won a National Book Award and the Newbery Medal...

| Holes

Holes (novel)

Holes is a Newbery Medal-winning novel by Louis Sachar. It was adapted into a screenplay for the 2003 film by Walt Disney Pictures. In 2006, Sachar published Small Steps, a companion novel featuring one of the characters from Holes.-Plot:...

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| 2002
| Andrew Clements

Andrew Clements

Andrew Clements is an American author of children's books. Clements grew up in Camden, New Jersey and Springfield, Illinois, United States,. As a child, he enjoyed summers at a lakeside cabin in Maine where he spent his days swimming and fishing and his evenings reading books...

| The Landry News

The Landry News

The Landry News is a children's book by Andrew Clements first published in the United States in 1999 by Aladdin.-Plot summary:Cara Landry, a new student in Mr. Larson's 5th Grade classroom, publishes her own individual newspaper during her first year at Denton Elementary School titled "The Landry...

| Christopher Paul Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis is an American children's author and a Newbery Medal winner who wrote The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 and the critically acclaimed Bud, Not Buddy. Bud, Not Buddy is the first novel to receive both the Coretta Scott King Award and the Newbery Medal...

| Bud, Not Buddy

Bud, Not Buddy

Bud, Not Buddy is a 1999 children's novel by Christopher Paul Curtis. The book is the winner of the 2000 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature, as well as the Coretta Scott King Award that is given in recognition of outstanding African-American authors.-Plot summary:Bud,...

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| 2003
| Kate DiCamillo

Kate DiCamillo

Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo is an American children's author. She is known for the Newbery Medal-winning book The Tale of Despereaux, the Newbery Honor book Because of Winn-Dixie, and the Mercy Watson series, plus numerous other award-winning and honored books.-Early life:Born in...

| Because of Winn-Dixie

Because of Winn-Dixie

Because of Winn-Dixie is a children's novel by Kate DiCamillo published in 2000 and winner of a Newbery Honor distinction the following year. It also won the 2000 Josette Frank Award, and 2003 Mark Twain Award...

| Frances O’Roark Dowell
| Dovey Coe
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| 2004
| Peni R. Griffin
| Ghost Sitter
| Andrea Warren
| Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps

Jack Mandelbaum

Jack Mandelbaum is a Holocaust survivor born in 1927 in the free state of Gdańsk . His experiences as a boy during World War II were the subject of Andrea Warren's children's book Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps.- Background :...

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| 2005
| Jerry Spinelli

Jerry Spinelli

Jerry Spinelli is an author of children's novels on adolescence and early adulthood. He is best known for the novels Maniac Magee and Wringer....

| Loser
| Stephanie S. Tolan

Stephanie S. Tolan

Stephanie S. Tolan is an American author. She wrote the book Surviving the Applewhites, which won a Newbery Honor. She was born in Ohio in 1942 and currently lives in Charlotte, NC, with her husband.- Books :* 2009 Wishworks, Inc.* 2006 Listen!...

| Surviving the Applewhites

Surviving the Applewhites

Surviving the Applewhites is a book from 2002 by Stephanie S. Tolan. The book received a Newbery Honor award in 2003.- Summary :Jake Semple is a boy who is sent to attend the Applewhite family's Creative Academy after being kicked out of every school in the state of Rhode Island. He got in...

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| 2006
| Sue Stauffacher
| Donuthead
| Jeanne DuPrau

Jeanne DuPrau

Jeanne DuPrau is an American writer, best known for The Books of Ember, a series of novels for young people. She lives in Menlo Park, California.-Home life:...

| The City of Ember

The City of Ember

The City of Ember is a post-apocalyptic novel by Jeanne DuPrau that was published in 2003. Similar to Suzanne Martel's The City Under Ground published in 1963, the story is about Ember, an underground city that is slowly running out of power and supplies due to its aging infrastructure...

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| 2007
| Andrew Clements

Andrew Clements

Andrew Clements is an American author of children's books. Clements grew up in Camden, New Jersey and Springfield, Illinois, United States,. As a child, he enjoyed summers at a lakeside cabin in Maine where he spent his days swimming and fishing and his evenings reading books...

| The Report Card

The Report Card

The Report Card is a children's novel by Andrew Clements, first published in 2004. The story is narrated by a 5th grade girl, Nora Rose Rowley. Nora is secretly a genius, but does not tell anyone for fear that she will be thought of as "different."...

| Sarah Weeks

Sarah Weeks

Sarah Weeks is a children's book author, perhaps best known for writing So B. It which in 2007 won the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award and William Allen White Children's Book Award.-Life:...

| So B. It

So B. It

So B. It is a children's novel by Sarah Weeks. In 2007 it won book awards in Illinois and Kansas .-Plot summary:...

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| 2008
| Ann M. Martin
| A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray

A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray

A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray is a children's novel written in 2005 by Ann M. Martin.-Plot: Squirrel is a stray puppy who lives in a shed behind the summer home of a wealthy family with her mother and brother, Bone. When their mother disappears, Squirrel and Bone must set off on their...

| L. D. Harkrader
| Airball: My Life in Briefs
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| 2009
| Sara Pennypacker

Sara Pennypacker

Sara Pennypacker, born in Massachusetts, is an author of children's literature who was awarded the Golden Kite Award for Pierre In Love.She has written thirteen children's books, including the those in the Clementine and Stuart series...

| Clementine
| Jennifer Roy

Jennifer Roy

Jennifer Roy is the award-winning author of Yellow Star, which won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award , Sydney Taylor Honor Award, The William Allen White Children's Book Award , a New York Public L Book, an ALA Notable Book, National Jewish Book Honor Award, and received starred reviews in...

| Yellow Star

Yellow Star (book)

Yellow Star is a 2006 biographical children's novel by Jennifer Roy. Written in free verse, it depicts life through the eyes of a young Jewish girl whose family was forced into the Łódź Ghetto in 1939 during World War II. Roy tells the story of her aunt Syvia, who shared her childhood memories with...

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| 2010
| Barbara O'Connor
| How to Steal a Dog
| Cynthia Kadohata

Cynthia Kadohata

Cynthia Kadohata is a Japanese American writer known for winning the 2005 Newbery Medal. Her first published short story appeared in The New Yorker in 1986....

| Cracker! The Best Dog in Viet Nam
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| 2011
|Patricia R. Giff

Patricia Reilly Giff

Patricia Reilly Giff was born on April 26, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York. She is an author and teacher. She was educated at Marymount College, where she was awarded a B.A. degree, and St. John's University, where she earned an M.A. and Hofstra University, where she was awarded a Professional Diploma...

|Eleven
|Susan C. Bartoletti

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Susan Campbell Bartoletti is an American writer of children's literature. She was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but eventually the family ended up in a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania. Susan started as an English teacher and inspired many students before deciding to pursue writing in...

|The Boy Who Dared
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