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  <name><![CDATA[Gary D. Schmidt]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Gary D. Schmidt is an American children's writer of nonfiction books and young adult novels, including two Newbery Honor books. He lives on a farm in Alto, Michigan,with his wife and six children, where he splits wood, plants gardens, writes, feeds the wild cats that drop by and wishes that sometimes the sea breeze came that far inland. He is a Professor of English at Calvin College.

His most recent novel is Trouble.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>    <born_at>01/01/1957</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Wednesday Wars]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Trouble]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[First Boy]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Straw Into Gold]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Sin Eater]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Pilgrim's Progress]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mara's Stories: Glimmers in the Darkness]]></title>
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  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Susan M. Felch]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Great Stone Face: A Tale by Nathanial Hawthorne]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gary D. Schmidt]]></name>
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