Sarah Weeks (born March 18, 1955) is an American writer of
children's books
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, perhaps best known for the novel ''
So B. It'' which has won several juvenile literature awards. In 2007 it won the
Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award
The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (RCYRBA) is an annual award given to the author of the book voted most outstanding by students in grades four through eight in participating Illinois schools and libraries. It is named in honor of child ...
and
William Allen White Children's Book Award
The William Allen White Children's Book Award is a set of two annual awards for books selected by vote of Kansas schoolchildren from lists prepared by committee. As a single award it was established in 1952 by Ruth Garver Gagliardo, a children's l ...
.
Biography
Sarah Weeks was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1955, the daughter of an English professor. She has a brother and a sister. When she was a little girl, the things she liked to do best were playing music and writing. When she grew up, she went to New York City, married, and had two sons, Gabriel and Nathaniel.
Selected works
Chapter books
;Oggie Cooder series
* ''Oggie Cooder''
* ''Oggie Cooder, Party Animal''
;Guy series
* ''Regular Guy'' (Laura Geringer/HarperCollins, 1999)
* ''Guy Time''
* ''My Guy''
;Boyds Will Be Boyds series
* ''Beware of Mad Dog''
* ''Get Well Soon or Else!''
* ''Danger! Boys Dancing!''
* ''Fink's Funk!''
;Other
*''Tripping Over the Lunch Lady and Other School Stories''
*''The Little Factory''
Picture books
* ''Hurricane City'' (HarperCollins, 1993), illustrated by
James Warhola
James Warhola (born March 16, 1955) is an American artist who has illustrated more than two dozen children's picture books since 1987.
Early life
A native of Smock, a coal-mining region in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, and of ...
"Hurricane city"
Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
Novels
*''As Simple as it Seems''
*'' So B. It''
*''Jumping the Scratch
''Jumping the Scratch'' is a novel by Sarah Weeks written for young adults. It was first published in 2006.
Plot summary
Eleven-year-old Jamie Reardon’s cat dies and his father leaves home; and his aunt Sapphy has an accident at work that cau ...
''
*''Up All Night''
*''PIE''
*''Honey''
*''Save Me a Seat''
*''Soof''
References
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1955 births
American children's writers
American women novelists
21st-century American novelists
Living people
American women children's writers
21st-century American women writers
Writers from Ann Arbor, Michigan