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Margi Preus

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Margi Preus is a children's writer. She is a 2011 Newbery Honor winner and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Heart of a Samurai. ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 15,938 ratings · 2,624 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors

	Heart of a Samurai 3.94 avg rating — 7,485 ratings — published 2010 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	West of the Moon 3.73 avg rating — 3,815 ratings — published 2014 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow on the Mountain 3.91 avg rating — 2,332 ratings — published 2012 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Village of Scoundrels 3.78 avg rating — 426 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enchantment Lake (Northwoods, #1) 3.29 avg rating — 427 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bamboo Sword 3.75 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Celebritrees: Historic & Famous Trees of the World by Margi Preus, Rebecca Gibbon (Illustrator) 4.20 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Littlest Voyageur by Margi Preus, Cheryl Pilgrim (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.61 avg rating — 255 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Windswept by Margi Preus, Armando Veve (Illustrator) 3.68 avg rating — 192 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Legend of the Lady Slipper by Margi Preus, Andrea Arroyo (Illustrator), Lise Lunge-Larsen (Adapter) 4.20 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1999 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Samurai (2 books)
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Northwoods (3 books)
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“Look at this world! So vast! So wide! Huge masses of land spread across it; multitudes of green and brown islands dotted the blue expanse of the oceans. He felt like a bird contemplating the sky.”
― Margi Preus, Heart of a Samurai

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“These shells are just like the people of the world, Okachan,' Manjiro said, speaking not just to his mother, but to everyone. 'They come from many places. They come in many different colors and sizes. But they are all beautiful.”
― Margi Preus, Heart of a Samurai

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“The door through which he had glimpsed such wondrous light, he had walked through. He had encountered both beauty and pain. Now he understood that was how it would always be—no matter where he went in the world.”
― Margi Preus, Heart of a Samurai

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The List of Things that Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead (write-in)

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Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte

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Coo by Kaela Noel

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Village of Scoundrels by Margi Preus

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