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ELLEN SCHECTER has been published widely in print and on the web. Many of her books are for children, and her first novel, The Big Idea [Hyperion] won the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. She’s written and collaborated on multiple-award-winning TV for PBS, Disney, CBS, and the Discovery Channel. Not bad for someone who never grew up.

Excepts from her new memoir, Fierce Joy, have been published online on ducts.org, Lilith magazine, and the University of Virginia Medical Arts Journal.

Check out the great reviews of her latest book, FIERCE JOY, at faboverfify: best memoirs of the year so far [faboverfifty.com/bookblog/2012/04]; New York Review of Books: Laura Schultz, in the New York Journal of Books:
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Fierce Joy

Fierce Joy, my memoir, began as notes in one of those $1 black-and-white speckled composition books we all used in elementary school. I was sick and I didn't know why.

And then I found out: I had either systemic lupus erythematosis [SLE] or a rare neurological disease, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy [CIDP]. It almost didn't matter which: they were incurable and, I soon learned fr Read more of this blog post »

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	The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (Bank Street Level 3*) by Ellen Schecter (Goodreads Author), Aesop 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1995 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sim Chung and the River Dragon (Bank Street Level 3*) 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fierce Joy 4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diamonds and Toads: A Classic Fairy Tale 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Warrior Maiden (Bank Street Level 3*) by Ellen Schecter (Goodreads Author), Laura Kelly (Illustrator) 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1992 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Bank Street Ready-to-Read, Level 1) 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Family Haggadah by Ellen Schecter (Goodreads Author), Neil Waldman (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Love to Sneeze (Bank Street Level 1*) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swim Like a Fish (Bank Street Level 1) 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sleep Tight, Pete by Ellen Schecter (Goodreads Author), Bari Weissman (Illustrator) 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.

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“It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.”
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“I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
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“Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”
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“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”
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