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Frances Schoonmaker

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Frances Schoonmaker is the award-winning author of The Last Crystal Trilogy for middle-grade and young adult readers in addition to her professional books on education.

She sees her writing for young people as an extension of a career that has served them. After teaching school for a dozen years, she became a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University where she taught in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching and was Director/Co-Director of the graduate-level teacher preparation program in childhood education.

The Last Crystal Trilogy is the recipient of multiple awards. The Black Alabaster Box won the Firebird Award for Historical Fiction. The Last Crystal has won the 2019 Agatha Award for Best Middle Grade/Young Adult Mystery, ...more

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	A Treasury of Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Sandberg, Walt Whitman by Frances Schoonmaker (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gary D. Schmidt (Editor), Brod Bagert (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.01 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2008	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 Black Alabaster Box 4.45 avg rating — 40 ratings — 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
	The Last Crystal (Last Crystal Trilogy, #3) 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — 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
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	"Growing Up" Teaching: From Personal Knowledge to Professional Practice liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1990 — 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
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