Maureen Garvie

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Maureen Garvie

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Maureen Garvie is a young adult author who also teaches writing to young adults. She was born in Kingston, Ontario, and grew up beside the St. Lawrence River, swimming and canoeing around wrecks of ships from the War of 1812. At university she worked at Fort Henry during the summer, where she developed a fascination with history that went beyond soldiers in red coats.

After finishing her education at Western, Queen's and University of Toronto with Masters, teaching and library degrees, she married and moved to New Zealand. For 12 years she worked on farms and in libraries on the South Island, taught English and drama in Christchurch, and wrote.

Now back in Canada, Maureen lives in Kingston once more. In the golden days before Hollinger and C
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Amy by Any Other Name

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Almost Invisible

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Lake Rules

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Withdrawn from Circulation

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George Johnson's War

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“I knew nothing. Now I've seen what a raw deal lots of other people like Krystal get. And it's not their fault. Not their choice. People don't get to choose what body they're put into. Like, people get born into bodies in the middle of a genocide war in Darfur, and they don't get to worry about how tall they are or whether they'll ever be able to row. They're too busy worrying about how they're going to stay alive for another day.”
Maureen Garvie, Amy by Any Other Name
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