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Ann Turner

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born

December 10, 1945 in The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.annwturner.com/

genre

History, Young Adult, Poetry

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Ann Warren Turner is a children's author and a poet.
Ann Turner wrote her first story when she was eight years old. It was about a dragon and a dwarf named Puckity. She still uses that story when she talks to students about writing, to show them that they too have stories worth telling.
Turner has always loved to write, but at first she was afraid she couldn't make a living doing it. So she trained to be a teacher instead. After a year of teaching, however, she decided she would rather write books than talk about them in school.
Turner's first children's book was about vultures and was illustrated by her mother. She has written more than 40 books since then, most of them historical picture books. She likes to think of a character in a specific...more

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Average rating: 3.57 · 1,374 ratings · 251 reviews · 67 distinct works

	The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl, New Mexico, 1864 3.56 avg rating — 493 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson, Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, 1774 3.65 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Learning To Swim 3.70 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Father of Lies 3.17 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Hard Hit 3.25 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Maia of Thebes 3.40 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Pumpkin Cat by Ann Turner, Amy June Bates (Illustrator), Amy Bates (Illustrations) 3.78 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Katie's Trunk 3.64 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Abe Lincoln Remembers by Ann Turner, Wendell Minor (Illustrations) 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Nettie's Trip South (Aladdin Picture Books) 3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1948 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“But now you can't find me or reach me or hurt me ever again and once I tell the words I am going to kick you off my porch and learn to breathe again.”
― Ann Turner

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“At night I dream of swimming, my arms move smoothly through the water it is so easy, so calm.”
― Ann Turner, Learning To Swim

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“I have a knife in my hand, slicing beef on the willowware plate, and I cut harder, faster, thinking it is your pink neck under my blade and I am cutting you into little pieces that I will bury in the meadow outside when there is no moon.”
― Ann Turner, Learning To Swim

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