Bonnie Shimko
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Bonnie Shimko is an American author of five young adult novels.
Biography
After thirty-three years of teaching second grade, Bonnie Shimko retired and began writing. Her first novel, Letters in the Attic, won a Lambda Literary Award for children's/young adult fiction in 2002.{{cite web |title=15th Annual Lambda Literary Awards |url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/07/09/lambda-literary-awards-2002/ |publisher= Lambda Literary |date=July 9, 2003 |accessdate=May 30, 2014}} Shimko lives in Plattsburgh, New York.
Works
- Letters in the Attic (2002)
- Kat's Promise (2006)
- The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye (2010)
- You Know What You Have to Do (2013)
- Stony Lonesome Road (2015)
References
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External links
- [http://bonnieshimkobooks.com/ Official website]
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Category:American children's writers
Category:Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature winners
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:People from Plattsburgh, New York
Category:Writers from New York (state)
Category:American women children's writers
Category:Schoolteachers from New York (state)
Category:American women educators
Category:21st-century American women
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