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Karen Hesse
Born
in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States
August 29, 1952
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Motherhood
As a mother, I’m curious about your experience as a mother and a writer. Were you a mother, for example, when you wrote Out of the Dust? And are there ways in which you can identify how your experience as a mother has informed and shaped your writing?
I was, indeed, a mother when I wrote OUT OF THE DUST. My entire body of work for children has been written since the birth of my first child.
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Out of the Dust
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1997
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72 editions
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Letters from Rifka
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published
1992
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42 editions
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The Music of Dolphins
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1996
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38 editions
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Witness
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2000
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39 editions
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A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861
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1999
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16 editions
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Safekeeping
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2012
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13 editions
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Come On, Rain!
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published
1999
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17 editions
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Stowaway
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2000
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32 editions
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Phoenix Rising
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1994
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31 editions
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The Cats In Krasinski Square
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2004
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10 editions
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“the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.”
― Out of the Dust
― Out of the Dust
“And I know now that all the time I was trying to get
out of the dust,
the fact is,
what I am,
I am because of the dust.
And what I am is good enough.
Even for me.”
― Out of the Dust
out of the dust,
the fact is,
what I am,
I am because of the dust.
And what I am is good enough.
Even for me.”
― Out of the Dust
“The way I see it, hard times aren't only about money,
or drought,
or dust.
Hard times are about losing spirit,
and hope,
and what happens when dreams dry up.”
― Out of the Dust
or drought,
or dust.
Hard times are about losing spirit,
and hope,
and what happens when dreams dry up.”
― Out of the Dust
Polls
YA BOOK FOR 2ND QTR 2011. FEATURING KWESI'S 10 FAVORITES.
OUT OF THE DUST by Karen Hesse
THE TWENTY-ONE BALLOONS by William Pene du Bois
SADAKO AND THE THOUSAND PAPER CRANES by Eleonor Coerr
THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM by Christopher Paul Curtis
THE KILLER'S TEARS by Anne-Laure Bondoux
SECRET OF PLATFORM 13 by Eva Ibbotson
HOMELESS BIRD by Gloria Whelan
THE CANNING SEASON by Polly Horvath
HOPE WAS HERE by Joan Bauer
RUBY HOLLER by Sharon Creech
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