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Newbery Honor recipient Margi Preus tells the incredible true story of a group of French teenagers who helped save refugees in WWII Based on the true story.
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Margi Preus
American children's writer
Margi Preus is an American children's writer.
She is a 2011 Newbery Honor winner and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Heart of a Samurai.[1] Her books have won multiple awards, honored as ALA/ALSC Notables, landed on many "best of" lists, featured on NPR, chosen for community reads, and translated into many languages.*
She earned her undergraduate degree at Luther College and graduate degree from Binghamton University.[2] She taught at the College of St.
Scholastica, University of Minnesota Duluth.[3] She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.[4]
Works
- Windswept, Illustrator Armando Veve, Harry N. Abrams, 2022, ISBN 978-1419758249
- Storm's Coming!, Illustrator David Geister, MHS Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-68134-0180-0
- The Bamboo Sword, Amulet Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4197-0807-7
- Enchantment Lake, University of Minnesota Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-8166-8302