Marion Dane Bauer

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If You Were Born a Kitten

Marion Dane Bauer is the author of more than thirty books for young people from novelty books, picture books and early readers through writing guides and novels. She has won numerous awards, including a Jane Addams Peace Association Award for her novel Rain of Fire and an American Library Association Newbery Honor Award for On My Honor and the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for the body of her work. Her picture book My Mother is Mine was a New York Times best seller. Marion's books have been translated into more than a dozen different languages.

Marion has long been a writing teacher as well as a writer. Her book, What's Your Story? A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction is used by adults wanting to write for children as well as by young writers. She was the first Faculty Chair and continues on the faculty at Vermont College for the only Master of Fine Arts in Writing program devoted exclusively to writing for children and young adults.

Marion has two children and five grandchildren and lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.


					The Green Ghost illustrated by Peter Ferguson Random House, 2008 ISBN 978-0375940835 In 1938, a girl named Lillian knows that the most beautiful pine tree in the forest is the one thing that will make her Christmas special. In 2008, Kaye’s family’s car slides off the road in a Christmas Eve blizzard and they have to seek out shelter in the snowy woods. Seventy years separate them, but Lillian and Kaye’s paths are ready to cross when Kaye looks out the car window and spots a ghostly face glowing brightly through the falling snow....



					Volcano! illustrated by John Wallace Aladdin, 2008 ISBN 978-1416925491 Learn about the awesome and destructive powers of the volcano.



					Flood! illustrated by John Wallace Aladdin, 2008 ISBN 978-1416925538 Learn about the amazing devastation caused by floods.

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