Awards

• Commended for 2012 Skipping Stone Honor Book 2012 (United States)
• Winner of 2006 Sydney Taylor Book Award 2006 (United States)
• Winner of 2011 Langum Prize for American Historical Fiction, Directors Mention 2011 (United States)
• Winner of Simon Wiesenthal Once Upon a World Children's Book Award 2012 (United States)

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"ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2012 2012 Sydney Taylor Award ""A powerful—and poignant—reminder that no person can live freely until all people can live freely.""—Lauren Myracle, author of Shine ""Tackles the weighty issue of anti-Semitism with uncompromising clarity.""—Publishers Weekly"

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Shirley Reva Vernick's interviews and feature articles have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, national newspapers, and the publications of Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Boston Universities. She also runs a popular storytelling website, storybee.org, which is used in schools, libraries, hospitals and homes all over the world. Shirley graduated from Cornell University, majoring in economics and nutrition, and is an alumna of the Radcliffe Writing Seminars. She grew up in the town where the blood libel happened, as did her father, whose family was directly victimized by it. She now lives with her husband, two daughters, and two frisky dogs in Western Massachusetts, where she has recently helped make her town a certified fair-trade community.

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