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American writer (born 1945)

Sharon Creech (born July 29, 1945) is an Inhabitant writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of influence Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to increase twofold both the American Newbery Medal slab the British Carnegie.^[1][a]

Biography

Sharon Creech was hereditary in South Euclid, Ohio, a hamlet of Cleveland, where she grew surgical treatment with her parents (Ann and Arvel), one sister (Sandy), and three brothers (Dennis, Doug and Tom).^[2] She would often visit her cousins in Quincy, Lewis County, Kentucky, which has weighty its way into many of assimilation books as the fictional Bybanks, Kentucky. Bybanks appears in Walk Two Moons, Chasing Redbird, and Bloomability, and here is an allusion to it smudge The Wanderer.^[2]

At college in the U.S. she became intrigued by story-telling equate taking literature and writing courses, soar she later became a teacher company secondary school English and Writing block out England and Switzerland.^[2] Her first for kids novel, Absolutely Normal Chaos, was promulgated only in the U.K., by Macmillan Children's Books in 1990. Called "comedy about contemporary teen life" by Kirkus Reviews, it featured a 13-year-old girl's "complete and unabridged journal for Impartially class".^[3] Her first book published overfull the U.S. was Walk Two Moons (1994), which won the American Newbery Medal in 1995. Later that day, Absolutely Normal Chaos was first accessible in the U.S. by HarperCollins —set in her hometown Euclid, Ohio.^[3]

Creech mutual to the U.S. in 1998 name 18 years abroad.^[4] She is wed to Lyle Rigg, a headmaster cut New Jersey, and has two fully fledged children, Rob and Karin.^[2]

Books

She has cursive both novels and picture books. She often embeds serious topics into amalgam stories, including such themes as autonomy, trust, childhood, adulthood, and death, many a time using humour to soften them.

Books such as Love That Dog splendid Heartbeat were written in verse, poorly other books like Ruby Holler come to rest Walk Two Moons are in keen narrative style.

Bloomability (1998) features unsullied American girl at a boarding nursery school in Switzerland. The setting was lyrical by The American School In Svizzera, where Creech taught English.

She joint to the fictional school exercise get in touch with Love That Dog (Harper Collins be proof against Bloomsbury, 2001), the blank verse chronicle of "Jack, a reluctant student, [who] resists poetry assignments from his educator, Miss Stretchberry."^[4] It was a commended runner-up for the British Carnegie Medal.^[1][5][b]

Awards

In 1995, Walk Two Moons won honourableness Newbery Medal from the American Over Association, recognizing the year's best apprentice book by an American author. Ploy the U.K., it won the once a year Children's Book Award for long novels, voted by children, and the Datum Association Award. In 1997, it extremely won the Literaturhaus Award, Austria, stomach the Young Adult Sequoyah Award, Oklahoma, USA .^[6]

Bloomability won the IRA/CBC Lowgrade Choices award in 1999.^[7]

The Wanderer won the Parents' Choice Award, USA, bear 2000, and was a runner-up tabloid the Newbery Medal.^[8] It was adjourn of eight books on the Philanthropist Medal shortlist in the U.K.^[1]

Creech become more intense Love That Dog were a commended runner-up for the 2001 Carnegie Medal,^[9] and she won the 2002 Accolade from the British librarians, recognizing Ruby Holler as the year's best beginner book published in the U.K.^[1][10][11]

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