Every Friday on my blog, I shine the spotlight on a fellow artist's latest book. If you want to know more about what I'm up to, it's easy to subscribe to my newsletter- just click on the "subscribe" button at my website,. My dear friend, Mary Nethery, and I have co-written two nonfiction picture books celebrating interspecies friendships: TWO BOBBIES: A TRUE STORY OF HURRICANE KATRINA, FRIENDSHIP AND SURVIVAL (Henry Bergh ASPCA Award winner) and NUBS: THE TRUE STORY OF A MUTT, A MARINE AND A MIRACLE (Christopher Medal Award winner). Hobie Hanson is a boy in Seattle who owns a German shepherd who is very well trained and has great agility. Both sides needed help from their home country as much as they needed each other. The year is 1944, the world is at war Americans vs. My great-grandmother's experiences inspired my first novel, HATTIE BIG SKY (Newbery honor award) and I haven't looked back, writing titles such as THE FRIENDSHIP DOLL, HATTIE EVER AFTER, DASH (Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Prize winner), DUKE, LIBERTY, AUDACITY JONES TO THE RESCUE, AUDACITY JONES STEALS THE SHOW, and the forthcoming, CODE WORD COURAGE. The book Duke by Newbery Honor winning author, Kirby Larson, just came out in bookstores everywhere. An avid reader and writer, it wasn't until I heard a snippet of a story about my great-grandmother homesteading by herself in eastern Montana that I found my true calling: writing historical fiction. I was born at Fort Lawton Army Hospital in Seattle and haven't moved very far from there since.
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