Sarah Weeks
{{short description|American writer of children's books (born 1955)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Sarah Weeks
| image = Sarah Weeks.JPG
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| caption = Weeks in 2015.
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|3|18}}
| birth_place = Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
| nationality = American
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| occupation = Writer
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| genre = Picture books, chapter books, novels
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| notableworks = So B. It, Jumping the Scratch
| influences =
| spouse = Jim Fyfe
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| children = 2
| website = {{URL|sarahweeks.com}}
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Sarah Weeks (born March 18, 1955) is an American writer of children's books, perhaps best known for the novel So B. It which has won several juvenile literature awards. In 2007 it won the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award[http://www.rcyrba.org/ Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award] and William Allen White Children's Book Award.
Biography
Sarah Weeks was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1955, the daughter of an English professor. She has a brother and a sister. When she was a little girl, the things she liked to do best were playing music and writing. When she grew up, she went to New York City, married, and had two sons, Gabriel and Nathaniel.
Selected works
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=Chapter books=
;Oggie Cooder series
- Oggie Cooder
- Oggie Cooder, Party Animal
;Misadventures of Guy Strang series
- Regular Guy (Laura Geringer/HarperCollins, 1999)
- Guy Time
- My Guy
- Guy Wire
;Boyds Will Be Boyds series
- Beware of Mad Dog
- Get Well Soon or Else!
- Danger! Boys Dancing!
- Fink's Funk!
;Other
- Tripping Over the Lunch Lady and Other School Stories
- The Little Factory
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=Picture books=
- Hurricane City (HarperCollins, 1993), illustrated by James Warhola[http://lccn.loc.gov/92023389 "Hurricane city"]. Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
=Novels=
- As Simple as it Seems
- So B. It
- Jumping the Scratch
- Up All Night
- PIE
- Honey
- Save Me a Seat
- Soof
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References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://sarahweeks.com/}}
- {{isfdb name|8092}}
- {{LCAuth|n92078131|Sarah Weeks|50|}}
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Category:American children's writers
Category:American women novelists
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American women children's writers