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Bruce Brooks

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September 23, 1950 in Washington, D.C., The United States

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Young Adult

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Bruce Brooks (born September 23, 1950) is an American author of young adult and children's literature. He was born in Washington D.C., but spent most of his time growing up in North Carolina as a result of parents' being divorced. Although divorce is never easy for a child, Brooks credits moving around a lot between the two locations with making him a keen observer of social situations. Switching schools often and having to make new friends evolved his ability to tell good stories. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1980. Before earning a living as a writer, Brooks had worked as a letterpress operator and a journalist for magazines and newspapers. Brooks has reported...more

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Books by Bruce Brooks

Average rating: 3.68 · 1,541 ratings · 307 reviews · 30 distinct works

	The Moves Make the Man 3.56 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 1984 — 18 editions	My rating:
	What Hearts 3.44 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1992 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Midnight Hour Encores by Bruce Brooks, Joel P. Johnson (Illustrations) 4.05 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions	My rating:
	All That Remains 2.91 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Vanishing 3.23 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1901 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Dolores 3.22 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Throwing Smoke 2.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Asylum for Nightface 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Everywhere 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Giving Tree 4.36 avg rating — 245,303 ratings — published 1964 — 39 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Bruce Brooks

“When we love someone it is because we built that feeling, bit by bit. It's a choice. It's what we make only for ourselves...”
― Bruce Brooks, What Hearts

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“But I knew deep down that the stuff behind could not just be dropped like it had nothing to do with what was ahead...There was just too much, too many strange angles and things left jaggedy open so you did not know they would ever shut right.”
― Bruce Brooks, The Moves Make the Man

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“He realized the things he had left behind were already hiding inside him; now, for the first time, his life had a past, a past that would not get any bigger, that would always be shrinking but would never disappear. Something else: he had always assumed there was only one way for his life to happen. Now he realized there were alternatives. A feeling, an object, a person could seem like one thing but be another; an action could seem as if it were taking one turn, but veer off another way. Anything could happen at any time. He was not on tracks.”
― Bruce Brooks, What Hearts

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Topics Mentioning This Author

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The Newbery Award...: 1985 Honor - The Moves Make the Man	1	4	Feb 07, 2010 04:17pm
The Newbery Award...: 1993 Honor - What Hearts	1	3	Feb 08, 2010 09:10am

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