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Megan E. Freeman

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Megan E. Freeman attended an elementary school where poets visited her classroom every week to teach poetry, and she has been a writer ever since. Her New York Times bestselling novel in verse, ALONE, won the Colorado Book Award, the Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, and Vermont Children’s Book Awards, the High Plains Book Award, is an NCTE Notable Verse Novel, and is included on over two dozen "best of" and state reading lists.

Megan is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and the author of the poetry chapbook Lessons on Sleeping Alone. An award-winning teacher with decades of classroom experience, Megan is nationally recognized for her work leading workshops and speaking to audiences across the country.

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Average rating: 4.11 · 24,911 ratings · 3,462 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors
Alone
4.13 avg rating — 21,726 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions
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Lessons on Sleeping Alone
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“I love the library.
My own personal book church.
Safety.

But I'm losing patience with fiction.
The challenges and triumphs of
fictional characters only make me
feel worse about myself.
Novels end nicely and neatly
with all obstacles overcome.
Loose ends tied up.

My own story just keeps unraveling
with depressing predictability.”
― Megan E. Freeman, Alone
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“Empty houses aren’t home.”
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“I love the library.
My own personal book church.
Safety.
-Maddie”
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Polls

It's our coming-in-second poll! The books included in this months poll were ranked highly in our monthly polls but lost by a few votes. It's time to give them another look.

What book should we read in October?

As always, you may write in titles, provided the book is a 2022 Newbery contender and already published.

 
  21 votes 15.9%

 
  19 votes 14.4%

 
  18 votes 13.6%

 
  16 votes 12.1%

 
  15 votes 11.4%

 
  14 votes 10.6%

 
  6 votes 4.5%

Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff (write-in)
 
  6 votes 4.5%

Elephant in the Room by Holly Goldberg Sloan (write-in)
 
  4 votes 3.0%

Amber & Clay (write-in)
 
  3 votes 2.3%

Finding Junie Kim (write-in)
 
  2 votes 1.5%

Amber and Clay (write-in)
 
  2 votes 1.5%

The Elephant in the Room (write-in)
 
  1 vote 0.8%

Rescue is my choice. I’ve read The Elephant in the Room and very enjoyed it! (write-in)
 
  1 vote 0.8%

Rescue is my vote. I have read Amber and Clay and really loved it,. (write-in)
 
  1 vote 0.8%

Finding Julie kim (write-in)
 
  1 vote 0.8%

Just Like That (write-in)
 
  1 vote 0.8%

The Sea in Winter (write-in)
 
  1 vote 0.8%

Unsettled by Reem Faruqi (write-in)
 
  0 votes 0.0%

Room to Dream (write-in)
 
  0 votes 0.0%

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