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Linda Urban

Born

Detriot, The United States

Website

http://www.lindaurbanbooks.com

Genre

Young Adult

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This was from the About Me section at Linda Urban's website.

I was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in a suburban house that looked like all the others on my street. Sometimes I liked that sameness. It made me feel normal, when I worried I wasn’t.

Other times, though, I wanted to be different — to shine, to have people see me as special. I tried ballet dancing and singing and playing musical instruments, but I wasn’t very good at any of those things. But writing stories was fun! And often people liked what I wrote.

At Oakbrook Elementary, I wrote lots of poems and stories. One story, SUPERBOX, was about a crime-fighting shoe box. That story won me a prize. Even better? I got to read it out loud to my classmates, who laughed at the funny p ...more

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Linda Urban's Blog

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Point of View: One Author's Perspective

There are lots of reasons why an author might choose one point of

view over another. The first, quite honestly, might be comfort level,
especially when a writer is a beginner. When I began writing, I came at
it as a reader, but also with some small amount of experience in
theater. The easiest way for me to see, feel, taste, touch, and smell
the story was to inhabit a character much the way I had whe

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Linda Urban’s books

Average rating: 3.75 · 27,168 ratings · 3,395 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Crooked Kind of Perfect 3.86 avg rating — 12,566 ratings — published 2007 — 29 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
	Hound Dog True 3.81 avg rating — 4,182 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	The Center of Everything 3.77 avg rating — 3,839 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Talk Santa to Me 3.18 avg rating — 3,619 ratings — published 2022 — 9 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
	Mouse Was Mad by Linda Urban, Henry Cole (Illustrator) 3.97 avg rating — 1,106 ratings — published 2009 — 16 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
	Weekends with Max and His Dad by Linda Urban, Katie Kath (Illustrator) 3.99 avg rating — 476 ratings — published 2016 — 10 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
	Almost There and Almost Not 4.06 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 2021 — 2 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
	Milo Speck, Accidental Agent 3.65 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 2015 — 8 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
	Mabel and Sam at Home by Linda Urban, Hadley Hooper (Illustrator) 3.81 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Little Red Henry by Linda Urban, Madeline Valentine (Illustrator) 3.67 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 2015 — 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

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Quotes by Linda Urban (?)

“I told Dad about yesterday...I told him how I made all those mistakes.
'But you kept on playing?' Dad said. His eyes got wide when he said it. I could tell he was proud.
'Everybody does,' I said. 'You can't just get up and walk away every time you mess up. You'd never get anywhere.”
― Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect

tags: tenacity

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“Never trust an exclamation point.”
― Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect

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“You can't have brave without scared.”
― Linda Urban, Hound Dog True

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Polls

What book would you choose for our Mock Newbery winner?

Be sure to write in your honor choices in the comments below.

Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt

28 votes 36.8%

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

14 votes 18.4%

Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming

7 votes 9.2%

Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu

6 votes 7.9%

Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy

6 votes 7.9%

The Trouble with May Amelia by Jennifer L. Holm

4 votes 5.3%

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

3 votes 3.9%

True... Sort of by Katherine Hannigan

3 votes 3.9%

Liesl and Po by Lauren Oliver

2 votes 2.6%

Hound Dog True by Linda Urban

2 votes 2.6%

Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos

1 vote 1.3%

76 total votes

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