Nancy Bond





Nancy Bond

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born
in Bethesda, Maryland, The United States
January 08, 1945

gender
female

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About this author

Children's writer Nancy (Barbara) Bond was born in Maryland and was raised in the United Kingdom and Massachusetts. She received her B.A. in English Literature from Mount Holyoke College in 1966 and a graduate degree from the College of Librarianship in Wales in 1972. She taught at the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature from 1979 to 2001.

In 1977 Bond received the Newbery Honor for A String in the Harp. Her second book, The Voyage Begun, won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.


Average rating: 4.18 · 88,520 ratings · 2,002 reviews · 31 distinct works · Similar authors
A String in the Harp
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 639 ratings — published 1976 — 10 editions
Another Shore
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1988
Country of Broken Stone
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1980
The Best of Enemies
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
A Place to Come Back To
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1984
The Love of Friends
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1997
The Voyage Begun
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1981
Truth To Tell
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
Swiss Family Robinson Color...
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
String in the Harp
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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“The worst is being alone and not having someone with whom I can share life, someone who sees the world from the same narrow ledge I'm standing on and who understands without always having to be explained to.”
Nancy Bond, Country of Broken Stone

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