Sharon Creech
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born
July 29, 1945
gender
female
place of birth
South Euclid, Ohio, The United States
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Children's Books
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I was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, and grew up there with my noisy and rowdy family: my parents (Ann and Arvel), my sister (Sandy), and my three brothers (Dennis, Doug and Tom).
For a fictional view of what it was like growing up in my family, see Absolutely Normal Chaos. (In that book, the brothers even have the same names as my own brothers.) Our house was not only full of us Creeches, but also full of friends and visiting relatives.
In the summer, we usually took a trip, all of us piled in a car and heading out to Wisconsin or Michigan or, once, to Idaho. We must have been a very noisy bunch, and I'm not sure how our parents put up with being cooped up with us in the car for those trips. The five-day trip...more
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Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech avg rating 4.05 — 9,208 ratings — published 1996 28 editions |
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Love That Dog by Sharon Creech avg rating 4.00 — 3,307 ratings — published 2001 21 editions |
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Ruby Holler (Joanna Cotler Books) by Sharon Creech avg rating 4.00 — 2,019 ratings — published 2002 24 editions |
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Bloomability by Sharon Creech avg rating 4.02 — 1,585 ratings — published 1998 15 editions |
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Heartbeat by Sharon Creech avg rating 3.94 — 1,534 ratings — published 2004 13 editions |
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Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech avg rating 4.04 — 1,409 ratings — published 1997 21 editions |
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The Wanderer by Sharon Creech avg rating 3.81 — 1,317 ratings — published 2000 23 editions |
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Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech avg rating 3.88 — 1,241 ratings — published 1995 20 editions |
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Granny Torrelli Makes Soup (Joanna Cotler Books) by Sharon Creech avg rating 3.79 — 857 ratings — published 2003 17 editions |
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Hate That Cat: A Novel by Sharon Creech avg rating 4.03 — 660 ratings — published 2008 6 editions |
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"Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad."
— Sharon Creech (Absolutely Normal Chaos)
— Sharon Creech (Absolutely Normal Chaos)
"Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins."
— Sharon Creech (Walk Two Moons)
— Sharon Creech (Walk Two Moons)
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