Caroline Pignat is an

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and English teacher.

Biography

Caroline Pignat is a graduate of

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. Her work has been published in magazines, including ''Highlights for Children'', ''Clubhouse'' and ''Clubhouse Jr.'', ''Storyteller'', ''Guideposts'', ''Guideposts for Kids'', ''Living Faith for Kids'', ''Capital Parent'', ''The Word Among Us'', and ''Focus on the Family''. She wrote the family activities booklets, A Circle of Love (November 2006) and In the Presence of the Lord (November 2007). Pignat's first young adult novel

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was published in 2008. Egghead is Will Reid, the target of Shane, the Grade 9 bully. In 2009 Pignat won her first

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for her second

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, Greener Grass: The Famine Years. Greener Grass is set in the land of Pignat's birth. Novels three and four, Wild Geese and Timber Wolf, are both sequels to Greener Grass. Characters are following during their adventures in North America. In novel five, Unspeakable, the main character is a survivor of the sinking of the Empress of Ireland. Pignat's second Governor General's Award came in 2015 for her sixth novel The Gospel Truth. Originally novel six was to be focused on a character from Greener Grass, but became the story of a number of characters on a Southern tobacco plantation. In novel seven, Pignat has five grade 12 students caught by surprise during a school lockdown. Pignat's latest book, Poetree, is a picture book of acrostic poetry about trees. It is a collaboration with award-winning illustrator François Thisdale.

Selected works

*''Egghead'', Red Deer Press, (2008) *'' Greener Grass: The Famine Years'', Red Deer Press, (2008) *''Wild Geese'', Red Deer Press, (2010) *''Timber Wolf'', Red Deer Press, (2011) *''Unspeakable'', Penguin Canada, (2014) *''The Gospel Truth'', Red Deer Press, (2014) *''Shooter'', Penguin Canada, (May 3, 2016) *''Poetree'', Illustrated by Francois Thisdale, Red Deer Press, (June 2, 2018)

References

External links

Official Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pignat, Caroline Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian children's writers Writers from Ottawa Irish emigrants to Canada Canadian women children's writers Forest of Reading Award winners University of Ottawa alumni