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Valerie Hobbs is the author of many award winning novels for young adults including Sonnys War, Tender, and How Far Would You Have Gotten If I Hadnt Called You Back, for which she was designated a Flying Start author by Publishers Weekly in 1996. Hobbs was the winner of the 1999 PEN/Norma Klein award for an emerging voice of literary merit among American writers of childrens fiction and the Arizona Library Association Young Adult Author of the Year in 2003. Defiance, her most recent middle-grade novel, was given the 2006 most distinguished fiction award by the Childrens Literature Council of Southern California and has been nominated for twelve state awards. "


Average rating: 3.69 · 1,056 ratings · 253 reviews · 19 distinct works
Sheep
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions
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Defiance
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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Anything But Ordinary
3.15 of 5 stars 3.15 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2004
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions
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The Last Best Days of Summer
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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Tender
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions
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3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Sonny's War
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings3 editions
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Carolina Crow Girl
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions
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“Life is too short to suffer anybody's meanness, which is what you can learn eating shrimp with store-bought coleslaw, if you look it straight in the face.”
Valerie Hobbs, Letting Go of Bobby James: Or How I Found My Self of Steam

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