Pat Schmatz





Pat Schmatz

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Growing up in rural Wisconsin, Pat's passions were reading, basketball, and the woods. She lived in Michigan, California, and Minnesota before landing back in central Wisconsin. She still travels whenever she can, from Japan to Rhode Island to Vancouver to New Zealand, and anyplace she can get in between.

When she's not traveling, Pat does administrative work for the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis, helping those dedicated and talented public interest lawyers provide free civil legal services for low-income folks and people with disabilities. In the summer, she is on the staff of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. In between, when she's not running or skiing in the woods or swimming in the lake, she studies Spanish and Japanese, watches t...more


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Ice
This is my favorite time of year to watch the lake - the big transition. Each day, it moves toward the locked-down frozen silent time, and then back again. Black water, skim of wrinkled ice. Snow-and-sleet-melt makes for a cratered gray surface. A warm day puts it back to black and wet, then a sharp overnight freeze to solid clear glass.

Yesterday I stood on the dock and looked through the windo... read more »
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Published on December 03, 2011 13:43 • 13 views
Average rating: 3.93 · 383 ratings · 128 reviews · 4 distinct works
Bluefish
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 319 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions
My rating:
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Mousetraps
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
My rating:
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Circle the Truth
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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Mrs. Estronsky and the UFO
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006
My rating:
didn't like it it was ok liked it really liked it it was amazing
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What should we read for December/January? Books should be pubbed between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011. Write-ins are welcome but PLEASE check the poll first!!! Make sure your book meets the criteria for Printz, too!

 
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