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	Karen Hesse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karen Hesse, born August 29, 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, is an author of children's literature and literature for young adults.
		Karen attended Towson State College as a theater major, but transferred after two semesters to the University of Maryland, where she eventually earned a B.A. in English with double minors in Psychology and Anthropology.
		Karen Hesse lives in Vermont with her husband and two teenaged daughters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karen_Hesse (192 words)

	Free-Essays.us - Karen Hesse; An American Author
		Karen Hesse was born August 29, 1952 and was raised in Baltimore, Maryland.
		Karen Hesse found this to be true and to be the story of her life.
		Karen Hesse is one to be admired for her persistence in obtaining her goal of becoming a writer, which she stubbornly held onto for 30 years.
	www.free-essays.us /dbase/a8/dli170.shtml (674 words)

	Children's Literature News - Karen Hesse Awarded Macarthur Fellowship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When Hesse said she was "writing a book about soil erosion," she produced Out of the Dust, an astonishing book of unrhymed verse set in the Oklahoma panhandle during the worst years of the Depression.
		Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Hesse is a longtime resident of Vermont, where she lives with her husband and two grown daughters.
		Hesse is a graduate of the University of Maryland, and has worked as a proofreader, typesetter, waitress, substitute teacher, and a hospice volunteer.
	www.childrenslit.com /f_hessemacaward.html (605 words)

	Instititute of Children's Literature
		Karen: is Karen Hesse, a graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature and winner of the 1998 Newbery Medal for Out of the Dust.
		Others of Karen’s earlier books were Lavender, the touching story of a girl and her new baby cousin, and The Music of Dolphins, the story of the wild child Mila and her survival.
		Karen: After hearing a radio interview about Genie, a contemporary wild child, I found myself drawn to the idea of a book in which I could explore what it means to be human, about our animal nature versus our human nature, about humanity itself and its evolution.
	www.institutechildrenslit.com /rx/tr01/hesse.shtml (3920 words)

	Children's Literature: Karen Hesse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hesse, a writer of children’s and young adult novels, was born in Baltimore, Md., and earned a bachelor’s degree in English in 1974.
		Hesse may have grown up in a Baltimore rowhouse, but her imagination took her far beyond the city's gray streets, and her writerly instincts appeared at a young age.
		Hesse developed her poetic skills, a sensitivity to the nuances of language apparent in her books, particularly ones in which the entire story is told in blank verse.
	www.childrenslit.com /f_hesse.html (2927 words)

	Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Karen Hesse uses a series of blank verse poems to tell the story of Billy Jo, a young girl growing up during the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma.
		Hesse crafts a strong heroine full of spunk and heart, while at the same time expertly balancing the despair and hope of historical Oklahoma in the 1930s.
		Hesse's inventiveness with form gives the novel a simple, austere beauty that is at once achingly familiar and strange.
	www.rambles.net /hesse_dust.html (309 words)

	Teenreads.com -- WITNESS by Karen Hesse
		Hesse creates wonderful characters --- the creepy Reverend Reeves, sassy Iris Weaver, and most of all, Leanora and Esther.
		As a big fan of Karen Hesse, I couldn't help but be troubled by one factor in this novel --- the voice of Esther.
		For someone who is normally as historically accurate as Karen Hesse, I was disappointed that she didn't take this opportunity to let readers know about Opal.
	www.teenreads.com /reviews/0439271991.asp (401 words)

	Karen Hesse: Genius at Work
		Karen worked in the library at the University of Maryland for a while, and she learned a love of research that led her to write Letters from Rifka, Stowaway, and Witness.
		Karen had heard about her relatives who had such a hard time on their way to America.
		Karen tells about her life in her author statement and answers several questions from an interviewer.
	www.kidspoint.org /columns2.asp?column_id=1221&column_type=author (1104 words)

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		Karen Hesse has made her 5th grade dream come true by writing over 25 children’s books.
		Presently, Karen Hesse lives in Vermont with her husband, Randy, and her two daughters, Kate and Rachel. Summary of Book: Award-winning author Karen Hesse's latest book covers a surprising series of events.
		Hesse proves that prejudice was as strong in the north as it was in the south.At first, the book looks as though it may be a play: each character is seen with their picture attached.
	www.neiu.edu /~gearup/units/yal/IPMS-Witness/Witness_Unit_Plan.doc (1030 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| Aleutian Sparrow by Karen Hesse
		Vera and her village are forced to leave their small island of Kashega and spend the rest of the war in internment camps, facing sickness, suffer, and death.
		KAREN HESSE is the author of some fifteen books for children, and was recently awarded a prestigious MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" for her contribution to the literature of children and young adults.
		Hesse has spent many years promotion her books to the school market, and is well-known in classrooms throughout the country.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807219683 (178 words)

	Karen Hesse: A Poetics Of Perfectionism - 2/8/1999 - Publishers Weekly
		Though Hesse had yet to place one of her books with a publisher, she forged on; she founded a local chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and began leading a writer's group.
		Hesse used that photo to represent the character to herself, a technique she often adopts.
		Hesse is not contractually bound to any one publisher at the moment; she signs contracts only when she feels she has a salable book.
	www.publishersweekly.com /article/CA166495.html?pubdate=2/8/1999&display=archive (1748 words)

	Kidsreads.com - A LIGHT IN THE STORM by Karen Hesse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Karen Hesse, whose novel OUT OF THE DUST won the 1998 Newbery Medal, gives Amelia the calm but concerned voice of a girl devoted to her work.
		Hesse's characters read Harriet Beecher Stowe's UNCLE TOM'S CABIN and Charles Darwin's THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, two controversial books of the period, and they cope with wet weather and pre-electricity oil lamps in the lighthouse.
		Best of all, Hesse shows that not everyone in the North was antislavery and that not everyone in the South was a slave owner.
	www.bonus.com /contour/kidreads/http@@/www.kidsreads.com/reviews/0590567330.asp (387 words)

	Author Karen Hesse Receives MacArthur Fellowship - 10/1/2002 - School Library Journal - CA246830
		Hesse, who won the 1998 Newbery Medal for Out of the Dust (Scholastic), is one of 24 2002 MacArthur Fellows who will receive $500,000 in "no strings attached" support over the next five years.
		Hesse books have won many of the highest honors in children's literature.
		Hesse has said, "Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences.
	www.schoollibraryjournal.com /index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA246830&publication=slj (294 words)

	ReadWriteThink: August 29, 2005: Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel Out of the Dust, was ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ReadWriteThink: August 29, 2005: Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel Out of the Dust, was born in 1952.
		Hesse’s writing offers a view of historical topics varying from the depression-era dustbowl to World War II, the Holocaust, and early 20th century issues of racism and bigotry.
		Karen Hesse, author of the Newbery-winning verse novel Out of the Dust, was born in 1952.
	www.readwritethink.org /calendar/calendar_day.asp?id=673 (615 words)

	Kliatt: Hesse, Karen. Aleutian Sparrow
		The author includes a note at the end of the poems telling the factual history of the Aleutian people during the war, and there is a brief glossary.
		Hesse, as usual, displays her mastery of this form--creating a novel in poetry.
		This subject is more obscure than some others she has addressed, such as the Great Depression in her prize-winning Out of the Dust and small-town racial bigotry in Witness, but it does add to her impressive body of literature for YAs.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PBX/is_4_39/ai_n14813855 (308 words)

	Stowaway Review
		But while the sea voyage as a metaphor for life is a tried and true one, it is not a tired one, particularly in the masterful hands of Karen Hesse.
		For Nicholas it is an escape from hardship to hardship and danger, but he seems gladly to accept the risks of the latter over the certainties of the former.
		As it is, Hesse allows the two to reach a measure of reconciliation that is not without ambiguity; it is a moment that one can imagine Nick mulling over for years to come.
	www.nimblespirit.com /html/stowaway_review.htm (924 words)

	Teaching Pre K-8: Karen Hesse: The Rest is History
		Karen Hesse has been hearing voices for a long time.
		Even though her goal of becoming a full-time writer has been a long time coming, Karen told us that she's always written "in and around the edges" of the various jobs she's held and also became part of a writing group long before she started getting published.
		To this day, Karen's face lights up when she talks about winning the Newbery for this remarkable novel in verse.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3666/is_200408/ai_n9445878 (375 words)

	Amazon.com: Out Of The Dust (Apple Signature Edition): Books: Karen Hesse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hesse won the 1998 Newbery Award for this elegantly crafted, gut-wrenching novel, and her fans won't want to miss The Music of Dolphins or Letters from Rifka.
		Hesse's book is wonderful for adults but a little difficult for younger readers.
		This work of historical fiction was told from a child's point of view, it is amazing to see Hesse's ability to transform her mind into that of a child's.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0590371258?v=glance (2302 words)

	About Karen Hesse
		Karen Hesse was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland.
		From the publication of her first book in 1991, Hesse's career has been distinguished by the extraordinary number of national honors she has received.
		Karen Hesse lives with her husband and two daughters in Brattleboro, Vermont.
	www.loudoun.gov /lcpl/onebook05/hesse.htm (197 words)

	Karen Hesse Biography / Biography of Karen Hesse Author and Artists for Young Adults Biography
		Author Karen Hesse has garnered an impressive list of awards for her work, including a prestigious Newbery award, the Scott O'Dell Award, and two Christopher awards.
		In 2002 she added to those with a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" fellowship of $500,000 over five years, a no-strings-attached award that allows recipients to use the grant in whatever manner they see fit.
		Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-karen-hesse-aya (143 words)

	Karen Hesse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The updated page can be found at: karen hesse
		Karen Hesse, born August 29, 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland: + style="font-size: larger;"baltimore, maryland...
		She has received many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (MacArthur Fellowship: more facts about this subject) in 2002, and the 1998 Newbery medal (Newbery medal: more facts about this subject) for her book Out of the Dust.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/karen_hesse (198 words)

	Karen Hesse
		AB: Discusses author Karen Hesse's books for children and young adults; suggests ideas for related activities that include appropriate Web sites; and presents an annotated bibliography for books for young readers, books for older readers, audio, video, Web biographical information, print biographical information, and additional sources.
		AB: Describes an interview with children's author Karen Hesse, discussing such things as how she chose writing as a career, her use of figurative language and her skillful crafting of dialog, where her book ideas come from, and her latest projects.
		AB: Presents an interview with Karen Hesse, author of 12 books of fiction for young, middle, and older readers, and winner of the 1998 Newbery Award.
	www.indiana.edu /~reading/ieo/bibs/hesse.html (1126 words)

	Brooks Memorial Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Karen Hesse, the author of Out of the Dust, is a versatile and gifted writer who is dedicated to writing children's books.
		Karen Hesse has loved to write at least since the fourth grade, and she has emerged as a major talent in the fields of children's and young adult literature in a remarkably short period of time.
		Through exquisite language and acute observation, Newbery medalist Karen Hesse recreates the glorious experience of a quenching rainstorm on a sweltering summer day.
	www.brooks.lib.vt.us /featured_author.htm (713 words)

	Aleutian Sparrow by Karen Hesse - Book Review
		Hesse has an important story to tell, but without plot, vivid characters, or emotional power, it is unlikely to captivate many children.
		In a series of short, free-verse poems, Newbery-winning author Hesse tells the story of the native Aleutian Islanders who were evacuated in advance of the Japanese invasion of their islands.
		For three years they were held in camps, supposedly for their protection, where a quarter of them died of various diseases.
	www.commonsensemedia.org /reviews/review.php?id=2268&type=Book (511 words)

	eBay - karen hesse books, Out of the Dust, Children's Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A Light in the Storm by Karen Hesse (1999)
		Stowaway by Karen Hesse (2000) scholastic SC ** NEW
		Dear AMerica A Light in the Storm by Karen Hesse NEW
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	Scholastic.com \| AuthorsandBooks: Author bookList (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Newbery Medalist Hesse pens the diary of a Union girl living in the divided state of Delaware during the explosive first year of the Civil war — a conflict mirrored in Amelia's struggle to keep her parents' disintegrating marriage together.
		When Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse came upon a short article about cats out-foxing the Gestapo at the train station in Warsaw during WWII, she couldn't get the story out of her mind.
		Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse tackles the problems of illiteracy and poverty in this unsentimental yet deeply uplifting tale.
	books.scholastic.com /teachers/authorsandbooks/authorstudies/authorhome.jsp?authorID=45&displayName=Booklist&displayName=Booklist (600 words)

	eBay - Book: Aleutian Sparrow (ISBN: 0689861893) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In a luminous novel of unrhymed verse, Newbery winner Karen Hesse brings to light this little-known episode from America's past.
		Aleutian Sparrow by Karen Hesse (2003) ARC Softcover
		NEW - Aleutian Sparrow by Karen Hesse; Evon Zerbetz
	product.ebay.com /Aleutian-Sparrow_ISBN_0689861893_W0QQfvcsZ1389QQsoprZ2455485 (378 words)

	Language Arts Web Links
		Karen Hesse’s novel, Out of the Dust, is announced as a Newbery Award winner.
		Kidsreads.com provides this biographical sketch of author, Karen Hesse.
		Some Karen Hesse information including a biographical sketch written by the author.
	teams.lacoe.edu /documentation/classrooms/language/rifka/web/web.html (406 words)

	Mad Times: Comment on Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I teach English and want one of my students to write a dissertation on Karen Hesse's "Out of the Dust." I wish to know about the articles, books etc that have been written about this book.
		i need 2 find out more about karen hesse and her works..i am writing a chapter about her anything about her besides her book, autobiography, and life.if you found any information please send it to my email.thank you!
		Hesse other than the fact that I reviewed one of her books.
	tomecat.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=494 (871 words)

	Judaism.com - The Stone Lamp Eight Stories of Hanukkah Through History By: Karen Hesse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ages 8-11, 12+ The story of Hanukkah is the story of triumph of light over darkness, of the small miracles that give hope to an entire people.
		In a series of eight powerful and evocative free-verse poems, award-winning author Karen Hesse captures the resilient spirit of the Jewish people through the voices of eight children at Hanukkah.
		The children - from Tamara in 12th-century England during the crusades and Jeremie in 13th-century France during the Paris book burnings to Havva in 17th-century Turkey, the era of the false messiah Shabbatai Zevi, and Ori in 20th-century Israel, after the assassination of Rabin, - have all experienced loss and hardship.
	www.judaism.com /display.asp?etn=DEGCA (210 words)

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