Make Way for Sam Houston - Softcover

Fritz, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039921304X ISBN 13: 9780399213045

Verlag: Putnam Juvenile, 1986

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"San Houston was the kind of larger-than-life hero about whom legends of Texan proportion have been woven. . . . In the hands of the fine biographer Jean Fritz, Houston's life retains its drama and vigor . . ."--New York Times Book Review.

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Acclaimed biographer, Jean Fritz, was born in China where she lived until the age of thirteen. She tells her story in Homesick, My Own Story, a Newbery Honor Book.

     Ms Fritz is the author of forty-five books for children and young people. Many center on historical American figures, gaining her a reputation as the premier author of biographies for children and young people.

     Among the prestigious awards Ms. Fritz has garnered are: a medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, a Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, an American Book Award, a Christopher Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Non-Fiction Award, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and many ALA Notable Books of the Year, School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, and ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice Awards. 

 

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• Verlag: Putnam Juvenile
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 039921304X
• ISBN 13: 9780399213045
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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