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Kate Klimo


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The United States
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Children's Books, Nonfiction


Kate Klimo spent her early years amidst the cornfields of Iowa where the winters were prodigious. Often, when the snows flash-thawed in the spring, she would find her backyard filled with the flapping, resurrected bodies of fish her ice-fishing father had stored in the snowdrifts. Thus sprang into her young head the unshakable notion that, all winter long, fish escaped from the rivers and magically swum through the snow banks of Mount Vernon, Iowa.

When she moved to the little town of Sea Cliff, on Long Island Sound, she met her best friend Justine in the Stenson Memorial Library at the main desk, where they often checked out the same fantasy writers. Together, they read C.S. Lewis, E. Nesbit, Edward Eager, and George MacDonald and embarked ...more

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Series by Kate Klimo

The Dragon in the Sock Drawer The Dragon in the Driveway The Dragon in the Library The Dragon in the Sea The Dragon in the Volcano The Dragon at the North Pole
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Daughter of the Centaurs A Gathering of Wings
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“What good would learning be if we concentrated on what we already knew? It is only by learning those things that come to us with difficulty that we truly gain wisdom.”
― Kate Klimo, Daughter of the Centaurs
tags: fictional-character, honus
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“diphtheria.”
― Kate Klimo, Togo
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“Stay down, Stubby, or you’ll get your head shot off,” Conroy warned me. He didn’t have to tell me. Seeing as how I was fond of my head, I lay low when the bullets flew.”
― Kate Klimo, Stubby
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