Gloria Whelan

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Gloria Whelan


Born
in Detroit, Michigan, The United States
November 23, 1923

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Genre
Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Children's


Gloria Whelan is the best-selling author of many novels for young readers, including Homeless Bird, winner of the National Book Award; Fruitlands: Louisa May Alcott Made Perfect; Angel on the Square and its companion, The Impossible Journey; Once on This Island, winner of the Great Lakes Book Award; Farewell to the Island; and Return to the Island. She lives with her husband, Joseph, in the woods of northern Michigan.

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Average rating: 3.93 · 29,401 ratings · 4,233 reviews · 73 distinct works • Similar authors
Homeless Bird
4.04 avg rating — 11,925 ratings — published 2000 — 35 editions
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Listening for Lions
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Angel on the Square (Angel ...
3.91 avg rating — 2,682 ratings — published 2001 — 19 editions
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Chu Ju's House
3.96 avg rating — 1,292 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions
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Small Acts of Amazing Coura...
3.74 avg rating — 881 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions
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The Impossible Journey (Ang...
3.96 avg rating — 645 ratings — published 2003 — 17 editions
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Once on This Island (Mackin...
3.79 avg rating — 513 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions
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Goodbye, Vietnam
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Burying the Sun (Angel on ...
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Series by Gloria Whelan

Angel on the Square The Impossible Journey Burying the Sun The Turning
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Small Acts of Amazing Courage All My Noble Dreams and The...
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Once on This Island Farewell to the Island Return to the Island
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Yatandou Yuki and the One Thousand C... Waiting for the Owl's Call The Boy Who Wanted to Cook Megan's Year: An Irish Trav... In Andal's House
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3.71 avg rating — 526 ratings

Next Spring An Oriole Night of the Full Moon Shadow of the Wolf
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Quotes by Gloria Whelan

“They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”
― Gloria Whelan, Listening for Lions
tags: artistic, bohemian, change-the-world, doing, talking, visonary
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“People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.”
― Gloria Whelan, Parade of Shadows
tags: future, living, past
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“But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.”
― Gloria Whelan
tags: art, artist, author, hobby, mom, mother, writing
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