Linda Sue Park
Author
1961-03-25
Books by Linda Sue Park
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A single shard
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A Long Walk to Water( Linda Sue Park)
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When my name was Keoko
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Quotes by Linda Sue Park
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The line between passionate and crazy can be a thin one.
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The boy was still looking at him. Your family? he asked.Salva shook his head.Me, too, the boy said. He sighed, and Salva heard that sigh all the way to his heart.
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But [Patrick's] character is partly based on a boy named Mark who lived across the street from me when I was growing up ... I liked hanging out with him and was sad when he moved away after only a year in the neighborhood. I guess writing about Patrick is a way for me to spend more time with Mark.
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The line between passionate and crazy can be a thin one.
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But [Patrick's] character is partly based on a boy named Mark who lived across the street from me when I was growing up ... I liked hanging out with him and was sad when he moved away after only a year in the neighborhood. I guess writing about Patrick is a way for me to spend more time with Mark.
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The boy was still looking at him. Your family? he asked.Salva shook his head.Me, too, the boy said. He sighed, and Salva heard that sigh all the way to his heart.
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I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
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After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading and writing. I also received degrees in London and Dublin - where I moved to be near a charming Irishman who became my husband!
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What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that 'work!' Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.
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