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Ndito Runs

Ndito Runs( )
Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse
Illustrator: Van der Merwe, Anita
ISBN:978-0-8050-3265-9
Publication Date:Mar 1996
Publisher:Henry Holt & Company
Imprint:Henry Holt & Company Books For Young Readers
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $15.95
Book Description:

"Young readers & listeners will follow Ndito on a joyous romp through the Kenyan countryside as she heads to school." -School Library Journal

Book Details
Pages:32
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Places / Africa
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0.42 x 8.26 x 10.32 Inches
Book Weight:0.79 Pounds
Author Biography
Halse Anderson, Laurie (Author)
Laurie Halse Anderson was born in Potsdam, New York on October 23, 1961. She received a B.S.L.L. in Languages and Linguistics from Georgetown University in 1984. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked as a freelance reporter. Her first book, Ndito Runs, was published in 1996. She has written numerous books for children including Turkey Pox, No Time for Mother's Day, Fever 1793, Speak, Catalyst, Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution, Chains and The Impossible Knife of Memory. She also created the Wild at Heart series, which was originally published by American Girl but is now called the Vet Volunteers series and is published by Penguin Books for Young Readers.

Anderson has been nominated and won multiple honorary awards for her literary work. For the masterpiece Speak, Anderson won the Printz Honor Book Award, a National Book Award nomination, Golden Kite award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her book Fever 1793 won the American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults selection and the Junior Library Guild selection. In 2008, Chains was selected for the National Book Award Finalist and in 2009 was awarded for its Historical Fiction the Scott O'Dell Award.

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