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Ellen Wittlinger

Ellen Wittlinger
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Ellen Wittlinger

Ellen Wittlinger is the author of several highly acclaimed books for young adults. A former children's librarian, she lives with her husband and two children in Swampscott, Massachusetts.

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Live and let live.
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Excerpt 1 from The Long Night of Leo and Bree
May 22, 2013
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Heart on My Sleeve has won an award
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Heart on My Sleeve has won an award
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Heart on My Sleeve has won an award
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Heart on My Sleeve has won an award
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May 22, 2013
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Excerpt 1 from Heart on My Sleeve
May 22, 2013
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Aug 30, 2012
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Zigzag has won an award
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Zigzag has won an award
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Zigzag has won an award
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Zigzag has won an award
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Chapter 1 from The Long Night of Leo and Bree
Jul 18, 2012
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Hard Love has won an award
Mar 03, 2011
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Hard Love has won an award
Mar 03, 2011

Ellen Wittlinger Revealed

Ellen Wittlinger Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Live and let live. Q. What’s your best quality? A. Loyalty to my friends. Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you? A. Honesty, loyalty, kindness Q. What’s your greatest flaw? A. Impatience Q. What are your 5 favorite songs? A. Hard Love (Bob Franke), When I Was a Boy (Dar Williams), Arrow (Cheryl Wheeler), Galileo (Indigo Girls), The Poet Game (Greg Brown) Learn more about Ellen Wittlinger

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The Atlantic Wire, October 19, 2012
...angst. He is a holy man. David Levithan , the books that are addressing sexuality and sexual identify;  Ellen Wittlinger , she did one book about a transgendered kid. These are the bedraggled books stolen from libraries in the backpacks of the kids who...
Tuscaloosa News, October 1, 2012
...week Activist groups across the nation were debating the issue of a school library book, ?The Sandpiper? by Ellen Wittlinger, at Brookwood High School; a student and her grandmother said it was inappropriate and refused to return the book to the...
School Library Journal, March 6, 2013
...along with an exercise on ?how to build it? if you were designing a park.? � by Ellen Wittlinger. From my review: ?This fifth grade battle of the sexes plays out in October 1962, against the backdrop of Cuban Missile Crisis. Wittlinger lets the reader...
School Library Journal, February 27, 2013
...start over, to pick up what was missed and to see how the stories overlap.? Parrotfish� by Ellen Wittlinger. From my review: ?Angela remembers being age six and the swim teacher saying, ?boys in one line, girls in another.? Angela was puzzled: ?why did...
The Atlantic Wire, October 19, 2012
...angst. He is a holy man. David Levithan , the books that are addressing sexuality and sexual identify;  Ellen Wittlinger , she did one book about a transgendered kid. These are the bedraggled books stolen from libraries in the backpacks of the kids who...
Tuscaloosa News, October 1, 2012
...week Activist groups across the nation were debating the issue of a school library book, ?The Sandpiper? by Ellen Wittlinger, at Brookwood High School; a student and her grandmother said it was inappropriate and refused to return the book to the...
Garner News, September 16, 2012
...unsettling ghost she keeps seeing as the subject of a short film—her first. “Heart on my Sleeve” by Ellen Wittlinger From the end of high school to the beginning of college, Chloe and Julian deal with major changes in their families and...