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Walk Two Moons was honored by the American Library
Association with the Newbery Medal at a banquet at the Chicago Hyatt
Regency in June, 1995. My whole family, along with two thousand
librarians, publishers, editors, writers and illustrators were there
to celebrate with me. It was the night of a lifetime!
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I've enjoyed meeting readers all over the U. S.
and in Europe. Here are a few of my stops.
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In the summer, we retreat to our small cottage on
Lake Chautauqua in western New York state. I try not to think too
much while I’m here.
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In 1998, after nearly twenty years living in Europe,
we moved back to the States, to Pennington, New Jersey (near Princeton),
where my husband Lyle is now the headmaster of The Pennington School.
Our house is on the campus of this boarding-and-day school, so every
day we are surrounded by students and teachers. There is a tiny
lake behind our house, and when I get stuck writing, I go out and
walk around and around that little lake until my head gets unstuck.
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For seventeen years, we lived and worked at the
TASIS American School in the village of Thorpe, Surrey, England.
It was here that I wrote Absolutely Normal Chaos, Walk Two Moons,
Pleasing the Ghost, Chasing Redbird and Bloomability, and it was
here that I received news of the Newbery Medal for Walk Two Moons.
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From 1980-82 we lived in Montagnola, Switzerland,
where we worked at the TASIS School. A fictional version of our
life here appears in Bloomability.
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