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Karen Hesse

Born

in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States

August 29, 1952

Website

https://karenhesseblog.wordpress.com/

Genre

Children's Books, Literature & Fiction

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Karen Hesse is an American author known for her children's and young adult literature, often set in historical contexts. She received the Newbery Medal for Out of the Dust (1997), a verse novel about a young girl enduring the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. Hesse’s works frequently tackle complex themes, as seen in Witness (2001), which explores the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in a 1920s Vermont town, and The Music of Dolphins (1996), which tells the story of a girl raised by dolphins. Her novel Stowaway (2000) is based on the real-life account of a boy aboard Captain Cook’s Endeavour. Over her career, Hesse has received numerous accolades, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002 and the Phoenix Award for Letters from Rifka (1992). ...more

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Motherhood

As a mother, I’m curious about your experience as a mother and a writer. Were you a mother, for example, when you wrote Out of the Dust? And are there ways in which you can identify how your experience as a mother has informed and shaped your writing?

I was, indeed, a mother when I wrote OUT OF THE DUST. My entire body of work for children has been written since the birth of my first child.

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Average rating: 3.79 · 124,000 ratings · 10,853 reviews · 65 distinct works • Similar authors

	Out of the Dust 3.77 avg rating — 79,041 ratings — published 1997 — 72 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
	Letters from Rifka 3.92 avg rating — 11,183 ratings — published 1992 — 43 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 Music of Dolphins 3.85 avg rating — 7,225 ratings — published 1996 — 38 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
	Witness 3.72 avg rating — 5,719 ratings — published 2000 — 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
	A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861 3.69 avg rating — 3,888 ratings — published 1999 — 16 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
	Safekeeping 3.54 avg rating — 2,612 ratings — published 2012 — 12 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
	Come On, Rain! by Karen Hesse, Jon J. Muth (Illustrator) 4.24 avg rating — 2,103 ratings — published 1999 — 17 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
	Stowaway 3.51 avg rating — 2,471 ratings — published 2000 — 32 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
	Phoenix Rising 3.95 avg rating — 1,733 ratings — published 1994 — 30 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 Cats In Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse, Wendy Watson (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.14 avg rating — 1,159 ratings — published 2004 — 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

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“the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.”
― Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust

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“And I know now that all the time I was trying to get
out of the dust,
the fact is,
what I am,
I am because of the dust.
And what I am is good enough.
Even for me.”
― Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust

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“The way I see it, hard times aren't only about money,
or drought,
or dust.
Hard times are about losing spirit,
and hope,
and what happens when dreams dry up.”
― Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust

tags: difficulties-of-life, dreams, hard-times, hope, spirit

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YA BOOK FOR 2ND QTR 2011. FEATURING KWESI'S 10 FAVORITES.

OUT OF THE DUST by Karen Hesse

5 votes, 33.3%

The Twenty One Balloons by William Pène du Bois

THE TWENTY-ONE BALLOONS by William Pene du Bois

5 votes, 33.3%

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr

SADAKO AND THE THOUSAND PAPER CRANES by Eleonor Coerr

3 votes, 20.0%

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM by Christopher Paul Curtis

1 vote, 6.7%

THE KILLER'S TEARS by Anne-Laure Bondoux

1 vote, 6.7%

SECRET OF PLATFORM 13 by Eva Ibbotson

0 votes, 0.0%

HOMELESS BIRD by Gloria Whelan

0 votes, 0.0%

THE CANNING SEASON by Polly Horvath

0 votes, 0.0%

HOPE WAS HERE by Joan Bauer

0 votes, 0.0%

RUBY HOLLER by Sharon Creech

0 votes, 0.0%

15 total votes

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