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Karen Hesse Information
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 Karen Hesse (1952 - ) is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings. Her novel Out of the Dust was the winner of the 1998 Newbery Medal and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction....



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Good conversation: A talk with Karen Hesse.
05/01/1999: 389 words, approx. 1 pages Since 1991, Podell Productions has produced some 34 videos, ranging in length from 18-26 minutes, which have profiled well known American and British authors such as Jerry Spinelli, Robert Cormier and Lynne Reid Banks. In 1998, the videos focused on Zilpha Keatley Snyder,...
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 The Horn Book Magazine
Karen Hesse.(children's author)
07/01/1998: 1,825 words, approx. 6 pages Karen Hesse's editor describes meeting the children's book author and her experiences in editing her first three books. She has found that Hesse is an empathetic and emotionally honest person whose writing offers an extraordinary sense of place. A profound and visceral sense...



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Hesse's View of the Importance of Life.
1,296 words, approx. 4 pages
 Karen Hesse believes first and foremost that life is important. She tries through her books to convince others of life's importance and that everyone cares for life in some way. In three of her books -- Witness, Phoenix Rising, and Aleutian Sparrow -- shows readers how much we need to care about life and what it offers.


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