| Sharon Creech | |
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 Sharon Creech giving a talk at a school |
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| Born | 29 July 1945 |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable work(s) | Walk Two Moons |
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Sharon Creech (born July 29, 1945) is an American novelist of children's fiction. Her novel Walk Two Moons received the 1995 Newbery Medal; The Wanderer was a 2001 Newbery Honor book and Ruby Holler received the 2002 Carnegie Medal. In 2007, Heartbeat was a finalist in the Junior Division (4th to 6th grades) of the Young Reader's Choice Awards, sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Library Association.
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Life
Creech was born July 29, 1945, in South Euclid, Ohio. She has three brothers, Dennis, Doug, and Tom, and one sister, Sandy, upon whom she based the characters in Absolutely Normal Chaos and Ruby Holler. Her brother Tom currently resides in Kent, Ohio, with his wife, Marty, and their three children, Sandra, Mary, and Annie. Annie was the basis of a character in Heartbeat. Every year, Creech's family visited Quincy, Kentucky, the inspiration for the town of Bybanks, which appeared in Chasing Redbird, Bloomability, Walk Two Moons, and (by reference) The Wanderer. Her grandmother plays a part in Granny Torrelli Makes Soup. She received a BA from Hiram College and a MA from George Mason University.
In 1979, she moved to Surrey, England. In addition to being a writer, Creech has taught English and writing at a high school and a boarding school, The American School in Switzerland (TASIS). She drew the setting of Bloomability from her experiences in Switzerland. She is married to Lyle Rigg, who was the headmaster of The Pennington School in Pennington, New Jersey, with whom she has two children, Rob and Karin.
Books
- 1990 Absolutely Normal Chaos
- 1994 Walk Two Moons
- 1996 Pleasing the Ghost
- 1997 Chasing Redbird
- 1999 Bloomability
- 2000 The Wanderer
- 2000 Fishing in the Air
- 2001 Love That Dog
- 2001 A Fine, Fine School
- 2002 Ruby Holler
- 2003 Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
- 2004 Heartbeat
- 2005
Replay - 2006 Who's That Baby
- 2007 The Castle Corona (Illustrated by David Diaz)
- 2008 Hate That Cat
- 2009 The Unfinished Angel
Awards
Heartbeat was in the Junior Division (grades 4 to 6) of the Young Reader's Choice Awards.
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