Polly Horvath





Polly Horvath

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Polly Horvath is the author of many books for young people, including Everything on a Waffle, The Pepins and Their Problems, The Canning Season and The Trolls. Her numerous awards include the Newbery Honor, the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature, the Mr. Christie Award, the international White Raven, and the Young Adult Canadian Book of the Year. Horvath grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She attended the Canadian College of Dance in Toronto and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York City. She has taught ballet, waitressed, done temporary typing, and tended babies, but while doing these things she has always also written. Now...more


Average rating: 3.63 · 5,116 ratings · 1,120 reviews · 20 distinct works
Everything on a Waffle
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 2,799 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
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My One Hundred Adventures
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 779 ratings10 editions
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The Canning Season
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 396 ratings16 editions
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The Trolls
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 347 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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Northward to the Moon
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions
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The Corps of the Bare-Boned...
3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2007
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The Vacation
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions
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The Pepins and Their Problems
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3.23 of 5 stars 3.23 avg rating — 107 ratings7 editions
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When the Circus Came to Town
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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“You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.”
Polly Horvath

“The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.”
Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures

“Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?”
Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures

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The Newbery Award...: 2002 Honor - Everything on a Waffle 2 12 Feb 13, 2010 05:06pm  
Pick-a-Shelf: 2010-02 - Adventure - What will you Read in February? 90 137 Feb 25, 2010 11:05am  
Wild Things: YA G...: * Book Award List 9 410 Jun 29, 2010 02:22pm  
Mock Newbery 2013: Probably not a future Newbery... 25 236 Nov 10, 2010 04:28pm  
Around the World ...: Canada 16 39 Dec 29, 2011 09:22pm  
Gigi's Company: ABC 1085 324 17 hours, 2 min ago  


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