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Karen Hesse
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born
August 29, 1952
in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States
gender
female
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Out of the Dust
   3.72 avg rating — 18,596 ratings
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1997
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24 editions
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Letters from Rifka
3.82 avg rating — 2,480 ratings
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published
1992
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19 editions
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The Music Of Dolphins
by Karen Hesse, Greg Harlin 3.76 avg rating — 1,998 ratings
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published
1996
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11 editions
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Witness
3.68 avg rating — 1,446 ratings
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published
2000
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14 editions
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A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861
3.53 avg rating — 771 ratings
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published
1999
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9 editions
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Phoenix Rising
3.89 avg rating — 544 ratings
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published
1994
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11 editions
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Stowaway
 3.35 avg rating — 512 ratings
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published
2000
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13 editions
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Brooklyn Bridge
by Karen Hesse, Chris Sheban 3.54 avg rating — 316 ratings
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published
2008
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9 editions
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Just Juice
by Karen Hesse, Hesse Karen, Robert Andrew Parker 3.56 avg rating — 289 ratings
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published
1998
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5 editions
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Aleutian Sparrow
by Karen Hesse, Evon Zerbetz , Kim McGillivray 3.73 avg rating — 280 ratings
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2003
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12 editions
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“the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.”
― Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust
― Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust
“And I know now that all the time I was trying to get
out of the dust,
the fact is,
what I am,
I am because of the dust.
And what I am is good enough.
Even for me.”
― Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust
out of the dust,
the fact is,
what I am,
I am because of the dust.
And what I am is good enough.
Even for me.”
― Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust
“Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished.
Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but
sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to
illuminate the darkness,
to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.”
― Karen Hesse, The Stone Lamp, The: Eight Stories of Hanukkah Through History: Stone Lamp
Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but
sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to
illuminate the darkness,
to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.”
― Karen Hesse, The Stone Lamp, The: Eight Stories of Hanukkah Through History: Stone Lamp
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YA BOOK FOR 2ND QTR 2011. FEATURING KWESI'S 10 FAVORITES.
OUT OF THE DUST by Karen Hesse
THE TWENTY-ONE BALLOONS by William Pene du Bois
SADAKO AND THE THOUSAND PAPER CRANES by Eleonor Coerr
THE KILLER'S TEARS by Anne-Laure Bondoux
THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM by Christopher Paul Curtis
THE CANNING SEASON by Polly Horvath
HOMELESS BIRD by Gloria Whelan
HOPE WAS HERE by Joan Bauer
RUBY HOLLER by Sharon Creech
SECRET OF PLATFORM 13 by Eva Ibbotson
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