1. 1950-Present By: Mackenzie Wojno

2. AGE: 62 RESIDENCE: She currently lives in Tulsa,OK with her husband, her son is at collage. TARGETED AUDIENCE: teens and preteens GENRE: realistic fiction THREE REVEIWS: “[A] classic coming-of-age book.” -Philadelphia Dailey News “Taut with tension, filled with drama.” – Chicago Tribune “What it’s like to live lonely and unwanted and cornered by circumstance …. There is rawness and violence here, but honest hope, too.” -National Observer

3.  Mae Award  Media and Methods Maxi Award  Massachusetts Children’s Book Award  Land of the Enchantment Award  Sue Hefly Award  American Book Award Parent’s Choice Sliver Honor book

4.  One of her hobbies is riding her horse.  Her father had cancer when she was in high school.  Her first book was The Outsiders.

5.  The Outsiders  Rumble Fish  That Was then, This is Now  Tex  Taming The Star Runner  Hawks Harbor  Tim’s Stories  Big David, Little David  The Puppy Sister

6. No one has heard of future plans, but I hope she still pursues her dream of writing.

7. “Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff. “ -S.E. Hinton

8. When did you start writing?

9. I chose her because I really enjoyed her book The Outsiders. It was the best book I had read in a long time.

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