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Megan E. Freeman

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Megan E. Freeman attended an elementary school where poets visited her classroom every week to teach poetry, and she has been a writer ever since. Her New York Times bestselling novel in verse, ALONE, won the Colorado Book Award, the Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, and Vermont Children’s Book Awards, the High Plains Book Award, is an NCTE Notable Verse Novel, and is included on over two dozen "best of" and state reading lists.

Megan is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and the author of the poetry chapbook Lessons on Sleeping Alone. An award-winning teacher with decades of classroom experience, Megan is nationally recognized for her work leading workshops and speaking to audiences across the country.

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Average rating: 4.11 · 26,022 ratings · 3,622 reviews · 6 distinct worksSimilar authors
Alone

4.13 avg rating — 22,510 ratings — published 2021 — 21 editions
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Away

3.95 avg rating — 3,424 ratings — published 2025 — 8 editions
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The Secret to Belonging

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Lessons on Sleeping Alone

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“I love the library.
My own personal book church.
Safety.

But I'm losing patience with fiction.
The challenges and triumphs of
fictional characters only make me
feel worse about myself.
Novels end nicely and neatly
with all obstacles overcome.
Loose ends tied up.

My own story just keeps unraveling
with depressing predictability.”
Megan E. Freeman, Alone

“Empty houses aren’t home.”
Megan E. Freeman, Alone

“I love the library.
My own personal book church.
Safety.
-Maddie”
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