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  <name><![CDATA[Joan Lowery Nixon]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Author of more than one hundred books, Joan Lowery Nixon is the only writer to have won four Edgar Allan Poe Awards for Juvenile Mysteries (and been nominated several other times) from the Mystery Writers of America. Creating contemporary teenage characters who have both a personal problem and a mystery to solve, Nixon captured the attention of legions of teenage readers since the publication of her first YA novel more than twenty years ago. In addition to mystery/suspense novels, she wrote nonfiction and fiction for children and middle graders, as well as several short stories. Nixon was the first person to write novels for teens about the orphan trains of the nineteenth century. She followed those with historical novels about Ellis Island and, more recently for younger readers, Colonial Williamsburg. Joan Lowery Nixon died on June 28, 2003—a great loss for all of us.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>    <born_at>02/03/1927</born_at>  <died_at>06/28/2003</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Other Side of Dark]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Family Apart]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Seance]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joan Lowery Nixon]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Deadly Game of Magic]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joan Lowery Nixon]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Name of the Game Was Murder]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joan Lowery Nixon]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Whispers from the Dead]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Nightmare]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joan Lowery Nixon]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[In The Face of Danger]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joan Lowery Nixon]]></name>
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  <published>1988</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Place to Belong]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joan Lowery Nixon]]></name>
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  <published>1989</published>  
  
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