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18-530: Peg Kehret has won the Mark Twain Award four times, once in 1999 for Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio , a memoir of her childhood, and three times in six years from 2007 to 2012 for novels. Though the list of nominated books is designated for grades four through six, any student can vote for the winner so long as they satisfy the following criteria: Schools design their own ballots. Individual votes for each school (or qualified group) are tallied on

36-652: A "Pet of the Month" column for her local newspaper alongside her volunteer work with animals. Before Kehret began writing children's books, she wrote plays, radio commercials and magazine stories. Her transition to writing for children stems from what she cites as the importance of children’s books: undoing negative effects left on children by mainstream media, movies, and video games and instead, teaching them empathy . She weaves character growth and age appropriate moral dilemmas into her forty-six works for middle school students, including four children's drama books. Her work

54-826: A Frightmares series consisting of eight books as well. Peg Kehret's books for young people have earned a wide readership and critical acclaim. Among her many honors are the Pen Center West Award in Children's Literature, the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and illustrators. Children's Choice Awards from 29 states, the Forest Roberts Playwriting Award, and the Henry Bergh Award from

72-558: A single sheet and submitted to the MASL. The award has recognized a single book by a single writer without exception from 1972. Peg Kehret Peg Kehret (born Margaret Ann Schulze on November 11, 1936) is an American author, primarily writing for children between the ages of 10 and 15. After beating three types of polio at age 12, Kehret went on to become an author of children's, young adults', and adults' literature, winning over fifty awards throughout her career. Margaret Ann Schulze

90-672: Is divided into subgenres of memoir, natural disaster, animal, novel, and horror adventure books. One of her most famous memoirs is Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio , in which she writes about her diagnosis and treatment in great detail. Her natural disaster novels include Escaping the Giant Wave and Earthquake Terror which use fictional stories to teach children on the dangers of natural disasters. Books inspired by her work with animals include Saving Lilly and her Pete The Cat trilogy. Some of Kehret's most popular novels are Stolen Children , Abduction! , and Runaway Twin. She has written

108-871: Is of a joint committee supported by the International Reading Association and The Children’s Book Council. Over 700 books, selected by publishers from books published in 2000, were evaluated in 2001. The 99 books with the most votes were selected to be the Children’s choices for 2001, one being Don’t Tell Anyone by Peg Kehret. She was awarded the Charlotte Award sponsored by the New York State Reading Association for her work Stolen Children in 2010. Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children%27s Book Award The Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (formerly

126-820: Is voted by high school students (grades 9–12, routinely ages 14–18) either through a school library or individually online, deadline May 31. Students are asked to vote only once and to read at least 3 from a list of 15 books (for 2014, published 2008–2012; for 2015, published 2011–2013). The Green Mountain BA was inaugurated in 2006. One book by a single writer has won the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award every year since 1957. Several writers have won more than one DCF Award: Beverly Cleary in 1958, 1966, and 1985; Mary Downing Hahn in 1988, 1996, and 2006; Jerry Spinelli and Kate DiCamillo and Alan Gratz twice each. Seven times from 1985 to 2005 (‡), and no others,

144-757: The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award ) annually recognizes one new American children's book selected by the vote of Vermont schoolchildren. It was inaugurated in 1957. The award is co-sponsored by the Vermont State PTA and the Vermont Department of Libraries and was originally named after the Vermont writer Dorothy Canfield Fisher . In 2020, it was temporarily renamed the "VT Middle-Grade Book Award" before schoolchildren voted to officially call it

162-499: The "Vermont Golden Dome Book Award". Each spring a committee of eight adults selects a "Master List" of thirty books first published during the previous calendar year. The list is announced at the annual Dorothy Canfield Fisher Conference, usually in May, and is available at Vermont school and public libraries for children who wish to participate over the next eleven months. The following spring, those children who have read at least five of

180-494: The 1999 Mark Twain Readers Award - a similar annual book award determined by a vote of Missouri schoolchildren in grades 4 to 6. The award recognized four of her books from 1999 to 2012: Abduction! , Runaway Twin , Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio , and Stolen Children . The Children’s Choices project allows 10,000 school children across the country to vote on newly published works that they enjoyed. The project

198-545: The ASPCA. Many for her books have been selected by the American Library Association for its Recommended Books for Reluctant Readers. In total, her books have won more than fifty state young reader awards. Kehret's polio memoir received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews , won the 1998 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award - annually determined by a vote of Vermont schoolchildren, and won

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216-635: The University of Minnesota for one year. In 1955, she married Carl Kehret; they moved to California and adopted two children, Bob and Anne. In 1970, the Kehrets moved to Washington . Carl died in 2004. Kehret has four grandchildren: Brett, Chelsea, Eric, and Mark. She has a great-grandson, Seth, who also lives in Washington. Kehret currently resides near Mt. Rainier National Park . Kehret spent six weeks every spring and fall visiting schools across

234-481: The country, but has since had to cut these visits due to difficulties caused by post-polio syndrome. In addition to being a writer, she spent much of her life rescuing and caring for animals, including volunteering at the Seattle humane society for more than 25 years, inspiring many of her fictional works. Following her husband's passing in 2004, Kehret maintained her passion by continuing to foster cats. She also wrote

252-501: The next twenty years to 2005. In 2018, there was a call from the Vermont Library Board to change the name of the award to no longer honor Dorothy Canfield Fisher , following a report that she had ties to Vermont's eugenics movement. In April 2019, the Vermont Department of Libraries announced that the award would be renamed in 2020. It was temporarily renamed the "VT Middle-Grade Book Award". In November 2020, it

270-504: The schoolchildren selected the winner of the annual Newbery Medal (dated one year earlier, established 1922). That award by the Association for Library Service to Children recognizes the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". The first agreement of Vermont children with U.S. children's librarians was their 1985 selection of Dear Mr. Henshaw by Cleary and there were six more such agreements during

288-420: The thirty books are eligible to vote for the award, with a deadline in mid-April. The award ceremony is scheduled after the end of the school year, usually late June. Thus the award is always for books published two years previously. The winning writer is invited to visit Vermont to speak with children about the experience of writing for children. Vermont sponsors two other statewide book awards determined by

306-532: The votes of younger and older students. The Red Clover Book Award recognizes a picture book published two years earlier. Voters are children in grades K–4 who have read, or heard read aloud, all 10 books on the list. The Red Clover BA was established by 1997–98, if not earlier, and its 2014 winner was announced by May. It is the centerpiece of a one-day conference in October. The Green Mountain Book Award

324-614: Was born on November 11, 1936, in La Crosse, Wisconsin . She contracted polio at age 12 in 1949. She had each of the three types of polio: spinal, respiratory, and bulbar. She was paralyzed from the neck down and had a nine-month hospital stay. The experience changed Kehret's life, as she describes in her 1996 memoir Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio . Kehret made a complete recovery aside from lingering post-polio syndrome. She later graduated from Austin High School and then attended

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