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Lyddie by Katherine Paterson

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Name: Katherine Paterson
Birth Date: October 31, 1932
Place of Birth: Qing Jiang, China
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Katherine (Womeldorf) Paterson
10670 words, approx. 35.6 pages
Katherine Paterson's reverence for words coupled with her respect for the power of story prompted her to keep writing for years when, not ready to publish, she was learning her craft. Her reluctance overcome, her apprenticeship served, the stories and es...
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Biography of Katherine Paterson
5830 words, approx. 19.4 pages
October 21, 1932. Born in the Jiangsu Province of China in the city of Qing Jiang. "If I tell you that I was born in China of Southern Presbyterian missionary parents, I have already given away the three chief clues to my tribal memory. "Let me start at...
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Biography of Katherine Paterson
2849 words, approx. 9.5 pages
Two-time Newbery Medal winner Katherine Paterson writes of children in crisis, at the crossroads of major decisions in their lives. Her youthful protagonists turn "tragedy to triumph by bravely choosing a way that is not selfishly determined," according...


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Lyddie Information
998 words, approx. 3 pages
Lyddie is a 1991 novel by Katherine Paterson. The novel is about the title character, Lyddie, and her coming-of-age in the early 1800s. It starts with a bear entering her family's house and exiting with a porridge pot over its head. Their mother and...


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Publishers Weekly
Lyddie. (book reviews)
01/04/1991: 203 words, approx. 1 pages
LYDDIE Katherine Paterson. Lodestar, ISBN 0-525-67338-5 In 1843, three years after her father abandons his failing Vermont farm, 10-year-old Lyddie and her younger brother Charles are hired out as servants, while Mama and the two youngest children go off to live with relatives....
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The Boston Globe
Rev. Daniel Lyddy, Grew Up In Lowell
08/01/2002: 130 words, approx. 0 pages
LOWELL - The Rev. Daniel F. Lyddy, 92, a Lowell native, died Saturday at the Southern New Hampshire Medical Center. He was born in Lowell and graduated from Sacred Heart Grammar School and Lowell High School. He later graduated from Canisius College in...
 


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Lyddie by Katherine Paterson

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