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Mary Stolz


Born
in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
March 24, 1920

Died
December 15, 2006

Genre
Children's Books, Young Adult, Fiction


Mary Stolz was a noted author for children and adolescents whose novels earned critical praise for the seriousness with which they took the problems of young people. Two of her books ''Belling the Tiger'' (1961) and ''The Noonday Friends'' (1965), were named Newbery Honor books by the ALA but it was her novels for young adults that combined romance with realistic situations that won devotion from her fans. Young men often created more problems and did not always provide happy ever after endings. Her heroines had to cope with complex situations and learn how to take action whether it was working as nurses (The Organdy Cupcakes), living in a housing project (Ready or Not), or escaping from being a social misfit by working for the summer as a ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 3,231 ratings · 525 reviews · 88 distinct works • Similar authors
The Noonday Friends
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3.63 avg rating — 581 ratings — published 1965 — 26 editions
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Storm in the Night: A Coret...
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4.04 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 1988 — 15 editions
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Belling the Tiger
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3.70 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 1961 — 12 editions
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A Dog on Barkham Street
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3.99 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1960 — 10 editions
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Cat in the Mirror
3.90 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 1975 — 11 editions
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The Bully of Barkham Street
3.96 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1963 — 13 editions
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Emmett's Pig
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4.10 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1959 — 22 editions
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The Sea Gulls Woke Me
4.25 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1951 — 14 editions
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Cat Walk
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4.17 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions
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A Ballad of the Civil War
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Series by Mary Stolz

A Dog on Barkham Street The Bully of Barkham Street The Explorer of Barkham Street
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Storm in the Night: A Coret... Go Fish Coco Grimes
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Belling the Tiger The Great Rebellion Siri the Conquistador Maximilian's World
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“Children ask me sometimes what book I'd take to a desert island, but I think I couldn't go to a desert island unless it had a library.”
― Mary Stolz
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“Animals died when their time came, and meanwhile they didn't bother with clothes, or go to war, or get drunk, or judge other animals by there look. They didn't get afraid unless there was something to be afraid of. She herself came apart with terror over something she couldn't define or understand. She didn't get afraid of something. She just got terrified> Filled with anxiety. For no reason. For no reason she could name. Would name.
Animals didn't look back with shivering shame at things in their past. They didn't quake at the thought of what lay ahead. They didn't try to make it into clique and feel sick with humiliation because they couldn't make it.”
― Mary Stolz, Cat in the Mirror
tags: animals, being, humanity, past
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“The stars flash out of the dark and disappear, but not for people to see. We're just people. And we flash into life and disappear, but not for the stars to see. They're just stars.
How strange, strange, strange. Being alive, feeling, thinking __”
― Mary Stolz
tags: being, life, stars
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