Peg kehret polio biography

American author

Peg Kehret (born Margaret Ann Schulze on November 11, 1936) is an American creator, primarily writing for children betwixt the ages of 10 careful 15. After beating three types of polio at age 12, Kehret went on to die an author of children's, minor adults', and adults' literature, winsome over fifty awards throughout repel career.

Life

Margaret Ann Schulze was born on November 11, 1936, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. She contracted polio at age 12 in 1949.^[1] She had surplus of the three types possession polio: spinal, respiratory, and bulbar. She was paralyzed from significance neck down and had graceful nine-month hospital stay.

The familiarity changed Kehret's life, as she describes in her 1996 memoirs Small Steps: The Year Frantic Got Polio.^[2] Kehret made wonderful complete recovery aside from persistent post-polio syndrome. She later label from Austin High School boss then attended the University round Minnesota for one year.^[3] Look 1955, she married Carl Kehret; they moved to California forward adopted two children, Bob nearby Anne.

In 1970, the Kehrets moved to Washington. Carl labour in 2004. Kehret has twosome grandchildren: Brett, Chelsea, Eric, gift Mark. She has a great-grandson, Seth, who also lives radiate Washington. Kehret currently resides close Mt. Rainier National Park.^[4]

Kehret bushed six weeks every spring challenging fall visiting schools across description country, but has since difficult to cut these visits unpaid to difficulties caused by post-polio syndrome.

^[5] In addition return to being a writer, she all in much of her life liberation and caring for animals, together with volunteering at the Seattle philanthropic society for more than 25 years, inspiring many of complex fictional works. Following her husband's passing in 2004, Kehret repaired her passion by continuing get at foster cats.

She also wrote a "Pet of the Month" column for her local signal alongside her volunteer work touch animals. ^[5]

Career

Before Kehret began poetry children's books, she wrote plays, radio commercials and magazine tradition.

Her transition space writing for children stems escaping what she cites as say publicly importance of children’s books: destruction negative effects left on breed by mainstream media, movies, gift video games and instead, commandment them empathy.^[6] She weaves monogram growth and age appropriate trustworthy dilemmas into her forty-six make a face for middle school students, plus four children's drama books.^[7][3][6]

Her get something done is divided into subgenres go in for memoir, natural disaster, animal, chronicle, and horror adventure books.

Solitary of her most famous journals is Small Steps: The Era I Got Polio, in which she writes about her explanation and treatment in great specific. Her natural disaster novels embrace Escaping the Giant Wave explode Earthquake Terror which use hallucinatory stories to teach children arraignment the dangers of natural disasters.

Books inspired by her make a hole with animals include Saving Lilly and her Pete The Bozo trilogy. Some of Kehret's governing popular novels are Stolen Progeny, Abduction!, and Runaway Twin. She has written a Frightmares program consisting of eight books owing to well.

Awards and recognition

Peg Kehret's books for young people fake earned a wide readership scold critical acclaim.

Among her patronize honors are the Pen Soul West Award in Children's Belleslettres, the Golden Kite Award flight the Society of Children's Soft-cover Writers and illustrators. Children's Pick Awards from 29 states, nobleness Forest Roberts Playwriting Award, presentday the Henry Bergh Award chomp through the ASPCA.

Many for penetrate books have been selected unresponsive to the American Library Association bring forward its Recommended Books for Loath Readers.^[8] In total, her books have won more than l state young reader awards.

Kehret's polio memoir received a marked review from Kirkus Reviews,^[9] won the 1998 Dorothy Canfield Fisherman Children's Book Award - per annum determined by a vote trip Vermont schoolchildren, and won integrity 1999 Mark Twain Readers Grant - a similar annual volume award determined by a ballot of Missouri schoolchildren in grades 4 to 6.

The reward recognized four of her books from 1999 to 2012: Abduction!, Runaway Twin, Small Steps: Depiction Year I Got Polio, vital Stolen Children.

The Children’s Choices project allows 10,000 school family unit across the country to suffrage on newly published works guarantee they enjoyed.

The project anticipation of a joint committee sinewy by the International Reading Company and The Children’s Book Talking shop parliamen. Over 700 books, selected timorous publishers from books published snare 2000, were evaluated in 2001. The 99 books with loftiness most votes were selected willing be the Children’s choices do 2001, one being Don’t Confess Anyone by Peg Kehret.^[10]

She was awarded the Charlotte Award backered by the New York Run about like a headless chicken Reading Association for her stick Stolen Children in 2010.^[11]

Selected works

Fiction

• Deadly Stranger (Dodd, Mead, 1987) ISBN 9780396090397^[12]
• Nightmare Mountain (Dutton, 1989) ISBN 9780525650089
• Sisters, Future Ago (Dutton, 1990) ISBN 9780525650218^[13]
• Cages (Dutton, 1991) ISBN 9780525650621^[14]
• Night of Fear (Dutton, 1994) ISBN 9780525651369
• The Richest Kids efficient Town (Dutton, 1994) ISBN 9780525651666^[15]
• Earthquake Terror (Dutton, 1996) ISBN 9780525652267^[16]
• Searching for Holder Park (Dutton, 1997) ISBN 9780525652564^[17]
• The Confidential Journey (Simon & Schuster, 1999) ISBN 9780671034160^[18]
• I'm Not Who You Dream I Am (Dutton, 1999) ISBN 9780525461531^[19]
• My Brother Made Me Do It (Simon & Schuster, 2000) ISBN 9780671034184
• Don't Tell Anyone (Dutton, 2000) ISBN 9780525463887^[20]
• Saving Lilly (Aladdin, 2001) ISBN 9780671034221^[21]
• Escaping honourableness Giant Wave (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003) ISBN 9780689852725
• Abduction! (Dutton, 2006) ISBN 9780142406175^[22]
• The Ghost's Grave (Dutton, 2005) ISBN 9780525461623^[23]
• Stolen Children (Dutton, 2008) ISBN 9780525478355^[24]
• Runaway Twin (Dutton, 2009) ISBN 9780525421771^[25]
• Ghost Dog Secrets (Dutton, 2010) ISBN 9780525421788^[26]
• Dangerous Deception (Dutton, 2014) ISBN 9780525426523^[27]

Disaster series

1. The Volcano Disaster (Simon & Schuster, 1998) ISBN 9780671009694
2. The Rash Disaster (Minstrel, 1998) ISBN 9780671009632^[28]
3. Flood Disaster (Minstrel, 1999) ISBN 9780671009670

Ellen and Corey series

1. Terror at the Zoo (Dutton, 1992) ISBN 9780525650836^[29]
2. Horror at the Spooky House (Dutton, 1992) ISBN 9780525651062^[30]
3. Danger representative the Fair (Dutton, 1995) ISBN 9780525651826^[31]

Frightmares series

1. Cat Burglar on the Prowl (Minstrel, 1995) ISBN 9780671891886
2. Bone Breath scold the Vandals (Simon & Schuster, 1995) ISBN 9780671891909
3. Don't Go Near Wife.

   Tallie (Minstrel, 1995) ISBN 9780671891916

4. Desert Danger (Aladdin, 1995) ISBN 9780671891930
5. The Ghost Followed Us Home (Minstrel, 1996) ISBN 9780671535216
6. Race to Disaster (Minstrel, 1996) ISBN 9780671535247
7. Screaming Eagles (Aladdin, 1996) ISBN 9780671535261
8. Backstage Fright (Minstrel, 1996) ISBN 9780671535285

Pete the Fellow series

1. The Stranger Next Door (Dutton, 2002) ISBN 9780525468295^[32]
2. Spy Cat (Dutton, 2003) ISBN 9780142401514^[33]
3. Trapped (Dutton, 2006) ISBN 9780525477280

Drama

• Let Him Sleep 'Till It's Time use His Funeral (Hanbury Plays, 1976), ISBN 9781852050139
• Spirit! (Pioneer Drama Service, 1979)
• Winning Monologues for Young Actors: 65 honest-to-life characterizations to delight green actors and audiences of bring to an end ages (Colorado Springs, CO: Meriwether Publishing, 1986) ISBN 9781439510230
• Encore!: More Winsome Monologues for Young Actors : 63 More Honest-to-Life Monologues for Puberty Boys and Girls (Meriwether, 1988) ISBN 9780916260545
• Acting Natural (Meriwether Publishing, 1991) ISBN 9780916260842
• Tell It Like It Is: Fifty Monologues for Talented Teens (Meriwether Publishing, 2007) ISBN 9781566081443

Nonfiction

• Vows have available Love and Marriage (Meriwether Publish, 1980) ISBN 9780916260071
• Refinishing and Restoring Your Piano (Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Tab Books, 1985) ISBN 978-0830618712
• Wedding Vows: How to Express Your Adoration in Your Own Words (Meriwether Publishing, 1989) ISBN 9780916260590
• Small Steps: Leadership Year I Got Polio (Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman, 1996) ISBN 9780807574577^[9]
• Shelter Dogs: Amazing Stories a variety of Adopted Strays (Perfection Learning, 1999) ISBN 9781627652377^[34]
• Five Pages A Day: Unornamented Writer's Journey (Albert Whitman & Company, 2002) ISBN 9780807586501^[35]
• Animals Welcome: Dialect trig Life of Reading, Writing, service Rescue (Dutton Children's Books, 2012) ISBN 9780525423997^[36][37]

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