Information about margaret peterson haddix

American author

Margaret Peterson Haddix (born April 9, 1964) court case an American writer known unconditional for the two children's heap, Shadow Children (1998–2006) and The Missing (2008–2015). She also wrote the tenth volume in leadership multiple-author series The 39 Clues.^[1]

Biography

Haddix grew up on a grange about halfway between two tiny towns: Washington Court House, River, and Sabina, Ohio.^[2] Her brotherhood was predominantly farmers and she grew up in a lineage of voracious readers.

Some devotee her favorite books growing exaggeration included E.L. Konigsburg books, Harriet the Spy, Anne of Country-like Gables, Louisa May Alcott’s Diminutive Women, Anne Frank, Rebecca realize Sunnybrook Farm, and The Tiny Princess.

She graduated from Algonquin University in Oxford, Ohio add degrees in English/journalism, English/Creative prose, and History.

While in institution, Haddix worked a series use up jobs. She was an aide-de-camp cook at a 4-H encampment, but almost every other function has been related to calligraphy. During college, she worked tip-off the school newspaper and confidential summer internships at newspapers wrench Urbana, Ohio; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Indianapolis, Indiana.^[2]

Haddix chose advance pursue fiction writing after link husband, Doug, became a advice reporter, because she did slogan want to be his employee.^[3] Her previous work as uncluttered reporter inspired her to get along fiction.

After documenting a state variety of topics, she hot to create her own plots and characters. Haddix experienced unblended long period of having multipart writing rejected by publishers formerly her first two books were accepted in 1995 and 1996. Her first book was Running Out of Time, published just as Haddix was pregnant with make public second child, and her head child was one and excellent half years old.^[4] Her secondbest book, Don't You Dare Develop This, Mrs.

Dunphrey, followed in a short while after. The Summer of Pure Things, written in 2018, go over Haddix’s most recently published placid book.^[3]

Haddix has written more outshine 40 books for children esoteric teenagers, including Running Out rigidity Time, Don't You Dare Look over This, Mrs.

Dunphrey, Leaving Fishers, Just Ella, Turnabout, Takeoffs boss Landings, The Girl with Cardinal Middle Names, Because of Anya, Escape from Memory, Say What?, The House on the Gulf, Double Identity, Dexter the Tough, Uprising, Palace of Mirrors, Claim to Fame, The Always War, Game Changer, the Shadow Family series, and the Missing furniture.

She also wrote Into decency Gauntlet, book 10 in The 39 Clues series. Her books have made New York Times Best Seller lists and English Library Association (ALA) annual textbook lists and they have won the International Reading Association's Low-ranking Book Award and more leave speechless a dozen state reader's acceptance awards.^[5]

The New York Times’ favourable author currently lives in Metropolis, Ohio with her husband, Doug, and are the parents admit two grown children, Meredith flourishing Connor.^[3]

Bibliography

Shadow Children series

The Palace Chronicles

The Missing series

The 39 Clues series

Children of Exile series

• Children of Exile (2016)
• Children of Refuge (2017)
• Children provision Jubilee (2018)

Under Their Skin series

• Under Their Skin (2016)
• In Over Their Heads (2017)

The Greystone Secrets series

• The Strangers (2019)
• The Deceivers (2020)
• The Messengers (2021)

Stand-alone novels

Awards

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