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Linda Urban

Born

Detriot, The United States

Website

http://www.lindaurbanbooks.com

Genre

Young Adult

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This was from the About Me section at Linda Urban's website.

I was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in a suburban house that looked like all the others on my street. Sometimes I liked that sameness. It made me feel normal, when I worried I wasn’t.

Other times, though, I wanted to be different — to shine, to have people see me as special. I tried ballet dancing and singing and playing musical instruments, but I wasn’t very good at any of those things. But writing stories was fun! And often people liked what I wrote.

At Oakbrook Elementary, I wrote lots of poems and stories. One story, SUPERBOX, was about a crime-fighting shoe box. That story won me a prize. Even better? I got to read it out loud to my classmates, who laughed at the funny p ...more

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Linda Urban's Blog

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Point of View: One Author's Perspective

There are lots of reasons why an author might choose one point of

view over another. The first, quite honestly, might be comfort level,
especially when a writer is a beginner. When I began writing, I came at
it as a reader, but also with some small amount of experience in
theater. The easiest way for me to see, feel, taste, touch, and smell
the story was to inhabit a character much the way I had whe

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Linda Urban’s books

Average rating: 3.76 · 26,983 ratings · 3,358 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Crooked Kind of Perfect 3.86 avg rating — 12,556 ratings — published 2007 — 28 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
	Hound Dog True 3.80 avg rating — 4,183 ratings — published 2011 — 19 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 Center of Everything 3.77 avg rating — 3,839 ratings — published 2013 — 15 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
	Talk Santa to Me 3.19 avg rating — 3,453 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Mouse Was Mad by Linda Urban, Henry Cole (Illustrator) 3.97 avg rating — 1,103 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	Weekends with Max and His Dad by Linda Urban, Katie Kath (Illustrator) 3.99 avg rating — 475 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Almost There and Almost Not 4.05 avg rating — 336 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Milo Speck, Accidental Agent 3.65 avg rating — 316 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Little Red Henry by Linda Urban, Madeline Valentine (Illustrator) 3.67 avg rating — 292 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Mabel and Sam at Home by Linda Urban, Hadley Hooper (Illustrator) 3.81 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 2018 — 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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Quotes by Linda Urban (?)

“I told Dad about yesterday...I told him how I made all those mistakes.
'But you kept on playing?' Dad said. His eyes got wide when he said it. I could tell he was proud.
'Everybody does,' I said. 'You can't just get up and walk away every time you mess up. You'd never get anywhere.”
― Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect

tags: tenacity

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“Never trust an exclamation point.”
― Linda Urban, A Crooked Kind of Perfect

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“You can't have brave without scared.”
― Linda Urban, Hound Dog True

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Polls

What book should we read in May?

You may write in titles, provided the book is a 2014 Newbery contender and already published.

The Center of Everything by Linda Urban

22 votes 26.2%

Hold Fast by Blue Balliett

21 votes 25.0%

A Tangle of Knots by Lisa Graff

18 votes 21.4%

Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner

12 votes 14.3%

The Center of Everything

3 votes 3.6%

A Tangle of Knots (write-in)

2 votes 2.4%

Center of Everything (write-in)

2 votes 2.4%

Hold Fast

2 votes 2.4%

Center of everything (write-in)

1 vote 1.2%

maggot moon (because I would probably not read it otherwise!) (write-in)

1 vote 1.2%

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Linda Urban’s Followers (200)

Linda Urban

87 postsLinda Urban's Blog

Point of View: One Author's Perspective

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Topics Mentioning This Author

87 posts
Linda Urban's Blog

Combine Editions
Linda Urban’s books