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Gloria Whelan





Gloria Whelan

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November 23, 1923 in Detroit, Michigan, The United States

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Gloria Whelan is the best-selling author of many novels for young readers, including Homeless Bird, winner of the National Book Award; Friutlands: Louisa May Alcott Made Perfect; Angel on the Square and its companion, The Impossible Journey; Once on this Island, winner of the Great Lakes Book Award; Farewell to the Island; and Return to the Island. She lives with her husband, Joseph, in the woods of northern Michigan.


Average rating: 3.87 · 8,018 ratings · 1,679 reviews · 65 distinct works
Homeless Bird
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 3,312 ratings — published 2000 — 17 editions
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Listening for Lions
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 1,046 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions
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Angel on the Square (Angel ...
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 679 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions
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Chu Ju's House
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 383 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions
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The Impossible Journey  (An...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions
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Small Acts of Amazing Courage
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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See What I See
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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Once On This Island (Mackin...
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 132 ratings4 editions
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The Turning  (Angel on the ...
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions
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The Disappeared
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
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More books by Gloria Whelan…
Angel on the Square The Impossible Journey Burying the Sun The Turning
Angel on the Square (4 books)
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3.925266903914591 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 1,124 ratings
Once On This Island Farewell to the Island Return to the Island
Mackinac Island Trilogy (3 books)
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3.8494208494208495 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 259 ratings
Yuki and the One Thousand C... Waiting for the Owl's Call The Boy Who Wanted to Cook Megan's Year: An Irish Trav...
Tales of the World (6 books)
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3.6707317073170733 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 82 ratings
Next Spring An Oriole Night Of The Full Moon Shadow of the Wolf
Oriole (3 books)
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3.6037735849056602 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 53 ratings

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“People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.”
Gloria Whelan, Parade of Shadows

“But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.”
Gloria Whelan

“It is hard to give up what you know for what you don’t know.”
Gloria Whelan, Angel on the Square

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