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Patricia MacLachlan

Patricia MacLachlan
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Patricia MacLachlan

Patricia MacLachlan is the author of many well-loved novels and picture books, including Sarah, Plain and Tall, winner of the Newbery Medal; its sequels, Skylark and Caleb’s Story; Edward’s Eyes; The True Gift; Waiting for the Magic; and Your Moon, My Moon, illustrated by Bryan Collier. She lives in western Massachusetts.

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Waiting for the Magic will be released on September 18, 2012 in Trade Paperback
May 16, 2012
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Waiting for the Magic
Oct 16, 2011
Middle School Survival Kit is now available in
Oct 04, 2011
Middle School Survival Kit will be released on October 04, 2011 in
Oct 04, 2011
Waiting for the Magic will be released on September 13, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Sep 13, 2011
Waiting for the Magic is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Sep 13, 2011
Your Moon, My Moon will be released on August 16, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Aug 16, 2011
Your Moon, My Moon is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Aug 16, 2011
Graphic Excerpt:
Your Moon, My Moon
Jul 26, 2011
News:
The True Gift has won an award
Apr 07, 2011
Acting Out will be released on June 22, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Jun 22, 2010
Acting Out is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 22, 2010
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The True Gift
Feb 05, 2010
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Edward's Eyes
Oct 19, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The True Gift
Oct 16, 2009
The True Gift will be released on October 06, 2009 in Hardcover
Oct 06, 2009

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Examiner.com, May 8, 2012
...is about new technology and how our lives would be affected. Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt by Patricia MacLachlan for grades 4th and up is about Minna learning to deal with the world around her and waiting for things to happen. Dear Mr. Henshaw by...
Muskogee Phoenix, April 8, 2012
...lake. They believe that the swan may be magical. Of course everything wonderful happens when fairies are involved. Patricia MacLachlan, a Newbery Medal winner, has a new book called “Kindred Souls.” Set on a farm in the Midwest, Billy walking with...
Kansas City Star, March 28, 2012
...beauty to them. It?s a cross section of the industry.? Other featured writers and illustrators will include Patricia MacLachlan, winner of the 1986 Newbery Medal for ?Sarah, Plain and Tall?; Paul O. Zelinsky, winner of the 1998 Caldecott Medal for...
Pocono Record, March 16, 2012
...Katje" by Candace Fleming; "A Bad Case of Stripes" by David Shannon Books to Buy "Kindred Souls" by Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Tegan Books, 2012, 128 pages, $14.99 hardcover. Read aloud: age 7 and older. Read yourself: age 8-9 and older. Jake's...
Lincoln Daily News, March 14, 2012
...from the Web) Send a link to a friend [March 14, 2012] "Waiting for the Magic," by Patricia MacLachlan, illustrated by Amy June Bates, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 143 pages, ages 8-11 Patricia Malachlan has given us another special story to touch...
Sudbury Star, March 10, 2012
...your tweens and teens, there are lots of new books to choose from. Waiting for the Magic by Patricia MacLachlan is a story about how four dogs and one cat help one boy and his sister save their family. For a Canadian read, check out All Good Children by...
Canton Repository, March 2, 2012
...Kent Oliver Children?s Programming Specialist: Patti Rante, Terri Priest Choices this week: ?All the Places to Love? by Patricia MacLachlan; ?That?s What Friends Are For? by Valeri Gorbachev; ?Pictures of Hollis Woods? by Patricia Reilly Giff BOOKS TO...
Canton Repository, March 2, 2012
...Kent Oliver Children?s Programming Specialist: Patti Rante, Terri Priest Choices this week: ?All the Places to Love? by Patricia MacLachlan; ?That?s What Friends Are For? by Valeri Gorbachev; ?Pictures of Hollis Woods? by Patricia Reilly Giff BOOKS TO...
Save the Children USA, March 2, 2012
...of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan Click here for more reading suggestions Kids Say the Darndest Things…about Reading We asked children in our literacy programs why they...
Cinnaminson Patch, February 27, 2012
...School librarian, Mrs. Korn’s favorites are Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco and Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan. That second book is one of my ten year old’s favorite books, she recently read the sequel, Skylark and enjoyed it as well....
Port Huron Times-Herald, February 26, 2012
..."Gossie and Gertie" series by Olivier Dunrea, "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant and "Sarah, Plain and Tall" by Patricia MacLachlan Books to buy The following books are available at bookstores. » "Kindred Souls" by Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Tegan...
News-Times, February 23, 2012
...Neighbors" by James Howe. Books to buy The following books are available at favorite bookstores. "Kindred Souls" by Patricia MacLachlan, Katherine Tegan Books, 2012, 128 pages, $14.99 hardcover. Read aloud: age 7 and older. Read yourself: age 8 or 9 and...
PublishersWeekly.com, February 20, 2012
...by David Leonard, which offers information about voting; A Boxcar Beginning: The Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm by Patricia MacLachlan, a tribute to the classic novel by Gertrude Chandler Warner; The Year Comes Round: Haiku Through the Seasons by Sid Farrar,...
Guelph Mercury, February 17, 2012
...Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 49. Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport 50. Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan 51. Sylvia Long's Mother Goose by Sylvia Long 52. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan 53. The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne 54....