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Sara Cassidy
Canadian
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Sara Cassidy has worked as a newspaper reporter and a tree planter in five Canadian provinces. Her children’s books have been shortlisted for many awards, including the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize (Nevers, Genius Jolene), the Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize (Skylark, Nevers), the Silver Birch Express Award (A Boy Named Queen, Genius Jolene), the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award, the Rocky Mountain Book Award and five titles for the Chocolate Lily Award. Her poetry, fiction and nonfiction for adults has been published in many outlets across the country.
