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Samantha Abeel


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Biographies & Memoirs, Young Adult


Samantha has a degree in English from Mount Holyoke College and a Masters in Social Work from the University of Michigan. First published at the age of 15, her book, Reach for the Moon won the 1994 Margot Marek Award for best book on the subject of learning disabilities, the Distinguished Book Award from the International Reading Association and was named Best Book for Teen Age by the New York Public Library. Her newest book, My Thirteenth Winter is an honest, hopeful autobiography that will inspire anyone who has ever had to face and overcome an obstacle.


Samantha Abeel
Among other awards, My Thirteenth Winter won an American Library Association Award for 2005. Samantha has spoken at numerous conferences as a keynote speaker and workshop ...more

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Average rating: 3.69 · 1,252 ratings · 278 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir
3.68 avg rating — 1,212 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions
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“In seventh grade, false feelings and false faces are the rule.”
― Samantha Abeel, My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir
tags: 7th-grade, middle-school
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“We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us”
― Samantha Abeel, My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir
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“Sometimes I try to go back and remember the me before I was ever diagnosed with a learning disability, back before I ever knew I was different, back to the time when I was just me, without any labels, when I thought the way I saw the world was how everyone saw it.”
― Samantha Abeel
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