Mary Downing Hahn es una reconocida autora estadounidense, conocida principalmente por sus novelas para niños y jóvenes adultos que abarcan diversos géneros, como histórico, contemporáneo, fantasía y, en particular, historias de fantasmas y misterios. Hahn nació y creció en Maryland, donde aún reside y en cuya ubicación establece gran parte de sus libros. Tiene dos hijas adultas.
Hahn creció en una pequeña casa en College Park, Maryland, rodeada de una comunidad llena de niños. Pasaban horas jugando juegos y emprendiendo aventuras en los bosques, arroyos y granjas cercanos. Desde una edad temprana, Hahn descubrió su amor por el arte y el storytelling, a menudo expresándose a través de imágenes en lugar de palabras. Era conocida como la artista de la clase en la escuela primaria y pasaba su tiempo dibujando y leyendo.
El interés de Hahn por la escritura se desarrolló durante sus años de secundaria cuando quería explorar historias más complejas y mostrar los sentimientos, pensamientos y diálogos de las personas. Sin embargo, no le gustaban las rigurosas exigencias de escribir informes y lo encontraba aburrido, similar a su aversión por las matemáticas. A pesar de sus primeras reservas, decidió seguir una carrera como escritora e ilustradora de libros para niños. En la escuela secundaria, Hahn mantenía un diario y escribía poesía y cuentos cortos en la universidad. No fue hasta los 41 años que se publicó su primer novela, "The Sara Summer". Desde entonces, ha escrito un promedio de un libro por año, dedicando tiempo a desarrollar tramas, personajes y situaciones.
En resumen, Mary Downing Hahn es una autora prolífica y exitosa de novelas para niños y jóvenes adultos. Tiene una fuerte conexión con su estado natal de Maryland y ha escrito muchos libros ubicados en este lugar. El amor de Hahn por el storytelling y el arte comenzó en su infancia, y pasó muchos años perfeccionando su oficio antes de lograr el éxito como autora publicada. Su trabajo ha vendido más de 2 millones de copias y ha ganado consistentemente premios de elección de los niños. Hahn es una lectora apasionada, viajera y amante de las artes, y actualmente reside en Columbia, Maryland, con sus dos gatos.
Gordy Smith Books
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Stepping on the Cracks
1991
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Following My Own Footsteps
1996
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As Ever, Gordy
1998
Anna Books
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Anna All Year Round
1999
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Anna on the Farm
2001
Novelas independientes
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The Sara Summer
1979
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The Time of the Witch
1982
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Daphne's Book
1983
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The Jellyfish Season
1985
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Wait Till Helen Comes
1986
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Tallahassee Higgins
1987
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Following the Mystery Man
1988
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December Stillness
1988
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The Doll in the Garden
1989
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The Dead Man in Indian Creek
1990
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The Spanish Kidnapping Disaster
1991
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The Wind Blows Backward
1993
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Time for Andrew
1994
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Look for Me by Moonlight
1995
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The Gentleman Outlaw and Me
1996
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Promises to the Dead
2000
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Hear the Wind Blow
2003
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The Old Willis Place
2004
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Janey and the Famous Author
2005
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Witch Catcher
2006
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Deep and Dark and Dangerous
2007
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All the Lovely Bad Ones
2008
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Closed for the Season
2009
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The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
2010
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Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls
2012
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Where I Belong
2014
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Took
2015
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One for Sorrow
2017
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The Girl in the Locked Room
2018
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Guest
2019
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The Thirteenth Cat
2021
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What We Saw
2022
Novelas gráficas
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Took
2022
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Wait Till Helen Comes
2022
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The Old Willis Place
2024
Avon Camelot Books
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Lottie & Lisa
1952
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Lottie & Lisa (By: Erich Kastner)
1952
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Summerdog Comes Home
1980
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Summerdog Comes Home (By: George Albert Zabriskie)
1980
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Baseball Fever
1981
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A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher (By: Mike Thaler)
1981
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A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher
1981
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Baseball Fever (By: Ray Cruz, Johanna Hurwitz)
1981
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The Trouble with Tuck
1981
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The Trouble with Tuck (By: Theodore Taylor)
1981
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Irma and Jerry
1982
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Irma and Jerry (By: George Selden)
1982
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Basic Fun
1982
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Basic Fun (By: Susan Drake Lipscomb, Margaret Ann Zusnich)
1982
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Summerdog
1983
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Esp McGee (By: Edward Packard)
1983
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Esp McGee
1983
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Tunnel to Yesterday (By: Jerome Beatty Jr.)
1983
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Tunnel to Yesterday
1983
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Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You (By: Vicki Cobb)
1983
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Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You
1983
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Rich Mitch (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)
1983
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Rich Mitch
1983
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Summerdog (By: Thom Roberts)
1983
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The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes
1983
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Bet You Can't! (By: Kathy Darling, Vicki Cobb)
1983
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Behind the Attic Wall
1983
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The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes (By: Laurence Pringle)
1983
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Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater
1984
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Behind the Attic Wall (By: Sylvia Cassedy)
1983
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Gremlins
1984
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Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater (By: Bruce Curtis, Stephanie Young)
1984
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Maura's Angel
1984
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Gremlins (By: George Gipe)
1984
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Maura's Angel (By: Lynne Reid Banks)
1984
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1
1985
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The Jellyfish Season
1985
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Mystery of the Melted Diamonds
1986
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1 (By: Andrew Glass, Catherine Edwards Sadler)
1985
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Ukrainian Egg Mystery
1986
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Get Rich Mitch! (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)
1985
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Moroccan Mystery
1986
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Mystery of the Melted Diamonds (By: Carol Farley)
1986
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Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol
1986
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Ukrainian Egg Mystery (By: George E. Stanley)
1986
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Flash Fry, Private Eye
1986
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Moroccan Mystery (By: Thomas McKean)
1986
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The Anti-Peggy Plot
1986
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Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol (By: Steve Senn)
1986
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Best Joke Book for Kids 2
1987
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Flash Fry, Private Eye (By: Tim Schoch)
1986
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The Codebreaker Kids
1987
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The Anti-Peggy Plot (By: Thomas McKean)
1986
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Summer Camp Creeps
1987
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Best Joke Book for Kids 2 (By: Joan Eckstein)
1987
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The Case of the Lost Look-Alike
1988
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The Codebreaker Kids (By: George E. Stanley)
1987
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Breezy
1988
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Summer Camp Creeps (By: Tim Schoch)
1987
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Racing the Sun
1988
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The Case of the Lost Look-Alike (By: Carol Farley)
1988
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Anne Frank
1989
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Breezy (By: Leda Blumberg)
1988
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Ghost Brother
1990
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Racing the Sun (By: Paul Pitts)
1988
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The Case of the Vanishing Villain
1990
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Anne Frank (By: Johanna Hurwitz)
1989
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Something Upstairs
1990
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The Case of the Vanishing Villain (By: Carol Farley)
1990
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A Haunting in Williamsburg
1990
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Something Upstairs (By: C.S. Adler)
1990
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The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists
1991
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Ghost Brother (By: C.S. Adler)
1990
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The Adventures of King Midas
1992
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A Haunting in Williamsburg (By: Lou Kassem)
1990
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Ask Me Anything About the Presidents
1992
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The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists (By: Eugenie Allen)
1991
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Tons of Trash
1992
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Ask Me Anything About the Presidents (By: Louis Phillips)
1992
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Maria, a Christmas Story
1992
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The Adventures of King Midas (By: Lynne Reid Banks)
1992
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How to Travel Through Time
1993
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Tons of Trash (By: Joan Rattner Heilman)
1992
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Lucie Babbidge's House
1993
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Maria, a Christmas Story (By: Theodore Taylor)
1992
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Beardance
1993
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How to Travel Through Time (By: James M. Deem)
1993
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Christmas Countdown
1993
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Lucie Babbidge's House (By: Sylvia Cassedy)
1993
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Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers
1994
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Beardance (By: Will Hobbs)
1993
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The Mummy's Curse
1994
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Christmas Countdown (By: Steve Englehart)
1993
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Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble
1994
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Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers (By: Mike Thaler)
1994
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Main Street
1994
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The Mummy's Curse (By: Daniel Cohen)
1994
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Comet Luck
1994
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Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble (By: Anne C. Lemieux)
1994
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Kwanzaa
1995
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Main Street (By: Susan Kirby)
1994
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Vampire Mom
1995
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Comet Luck (By: Madge Harrah)
1994
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My Own Two Feet
1995
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Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found (By: Johanna Hurwitz)
1995
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Spookhouse
1995
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Kwanzaa (By: Mildred Pitts Walter)
1995
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Harry the Poisonous Centipede
1996
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Vampire Mom (By: Don Whittington)
1995
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Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller
1996
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My Own Two Feet (By: Beverly Cleary)
1995
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Four Perfect Pebbles
1996
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Spookhouse (By: Don Whittington)
1995
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Zombie Queen
1996
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Harry the Poisonous Centipede (By: Lynne Reid Banks)
1996
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Freak Show
1996
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Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller (By: Septima Green)
1996
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Going to Net
1996
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Four Perfect Pebbles (By: Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan)
1996
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Lasting Echoes
1997
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Zombie Queen (By: Don Whittington)
1996
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Tracks in the Snow
1997
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Freak Show (By: Don Whittington)
1996
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Painting the Black
1997
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Going to Net (By: Various Various)
1996
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Danger Along the Ohio
1997
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Tracks in the Snow (By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe)
1997
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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
1998
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Danger Along the Ohio (By: Patricia Willis)
1997
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Night of the Chupacabras
1998
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Lasting Echoes (By: Joseph Bruchac)
1997
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Night of the Chupacabras (By: Marie G. Lee)
1998
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Becoming Felix
1998
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As Ever, Gordy
1998
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Breakaway
1998
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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (By: Anita Lobel)
1998
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Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me
1998
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Becoming Felix (By: Nancy Hope Wilson)
1998
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It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz
1998
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Breakaway (By: Kimberley Griffiths Little)
1998
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Leaving Summer
1998
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Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me (By: Dawn Knight)
1998
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Flea Circus Summer
1998
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It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz (By: Jacqueline Shannon)
1998
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Calling Me Home
1998
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Leaving Summer (By: Donal Harding)
1998
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The Pizza That Time Forgot
1999
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Flea Circus Summer (By: Cheryl Ware)
1998
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Love Me, Love My Broccoli
1999
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Calling Me Home (By: Patricia Hermes)
1998
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Get on the Net
1999
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The Pizza That Time Forgot (By: William DeAndrea, Matthew Deandrea)
1999
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Don't Try This at Home!
1999
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Love Me, Love My Broccoli (By: Julie Anne Peters)
1999
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Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters
1999
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Get on the Net (By: Robert Pondiscio)
1999
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A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights
1999
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Don't Try This at Home! (By: Vicki Cobb)
1999
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Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors
1999
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Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters (By: Bruce Coville)
1999
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Green Mango Magic
1999
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A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights (By: Kathleen Krull)
1999
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All the Answers
2000
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Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors (By: Bruce Coville)
1999
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Can of Worms
2000
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Green Mango Magic (By: Sylvie Hossack)
1999
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Orphan Journey Home
2000
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All the Answers (By: Anne C. Lemieux)
2000
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Bearstone
2000
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Can of Worms (By: Kathy MacKel)
2000
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Alice-by-Accident
2000
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Orphan Journey Home (By: Liza Ketchum)
2000
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Death at Devil's Bridge
2000
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Bearstone (By: Will Hobbs)
2000
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Heart of a Champion
2008
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Alice-by-Accident (By: Lynne Reid Banks)
2000
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Death at Devil's Bridge (By: Cynthia C. DeFelice)
2000
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Alice By Accident (By: Lynne Reid Banks)
2003
Colecciones de cuentos cortos
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The Puppet's Payback and Other Chilling Tales
2020
Mary Downing Hahn Anthologies
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Don't Give Up the Ghost
1993
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Totally Middle School: Tales of Friends, Family, and Fitting in