Katherine Paterson has won the Newbery Award for two books: Bridge to Terabithia (1978)and Jacob Have I Loved(1981). She also won the Newbery Honor in 1979 for her book The Great Gilly Hopkins.
She attended Antioch College and then transferred to Ohio State University.
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Its the portrayal of a wedding in a way which gives the women power.
What Thomas hears in the woods was Pluto actually making a sound from a the bellows in Pluto's "secret" cave where all Dies Drears hidden 'treasure' was.
Yes she was the youngest of 5 children, so she has 4 siblings.