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Tag: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

In Memory: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Posted on April 15, 2019April 15, 2019

By Gayleen Rabakukk

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, the author of more than 130 books for children and young adults, died on March 12 in Munster, Indiana. She was 90 years old.

She is best known for creating the young sleuth, Nate the Great (Putnam, 1972). According to a Washington Post article by Emily Langer,

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Cynthia Leitich Smith is a NSK Neustadt Laureate and a New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of books for young readers. Her latest titles are ANCESTOR APPROVED, which was an ALA Notable Children’s Book, SISTERS OF THENEVERSEA, which received six starred reviews, and HEARTS UNBROKEN, which won an American Indian Library Association’s Youth Literature Award.

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