Sharon Creech





Sharon Creech

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July 29, 1945 in South Euclid, Ohio, The United States

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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 out to Idah...more


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"She has squirrels in the attic"someone might sayof mewhen I'm deep in a draftand dizzy in the 'real' world
but outside my windowthere aresquirrels in the crabapplehappily munchingonblossoms
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Average rating: 3.90 · 83,848 ratings · 8,362 reviews · 31 distinct works
Walk Two Moons
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 39,960 ratings — published 1994 — 39 editions
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Love That Dog
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 10,793 ratings — published 2001 — 24 editions
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Ruby Holler
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 5,183 ratings — published 2002 — 31 editions
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Heartbeat
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 4,010 ratings — published 2004 — 24 editions
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Chasing Redbird
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 4,260 ratings — published 1997 — 28 editions
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Bloomability
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 3,870 ratings — published 1998 — 24 editions
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The Wanderer
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 3,909 ratings — published 2000 — 33 editions
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Absolutely Normal Chaos
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 3,222 ratings — published 1990 — 15 editions
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Hate That Cat
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 2,448 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 2,180 ratings — published 2003 — 19 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

“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”
Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.”
Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

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