Megan McDonald

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Megan McDonald

• By Anna RogersA Work in ProgressWorking on
  Citations

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Childhood

• Born February 28, 1959
• Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
• Megan was the youngest of 5 sisters.
• She was very quiet as a child. Often wrote her
  thoughts in a notebook.
• Megan loved to read long before she became a
  writer.

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Younger School Days

• First story published about a pencil sharpener at
  age 10.
• This story taught her the importance of using her
  own voice.

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Oberlin College

• Megan decide to chase her dreams and study
  Creative Writing
• The Professor of her first class told her to rip
  up and throw away all of her poetry because she
  was a prose writer
• She got confused and upset, but she still worked
  hard and finally got a full scholarship to study
  Library and Information Literature in1981
• She also met her to be husband there, his name is
  Richard Haynes

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Megans Books

• Is This House For a Hermit Crab, 1990
• The Great Pumpkin Switch, 1992
• The Bridge to Nowhere, 1993
• Beezy, 1997
• The Bone Keeper, 1999
• Judy Moody, 1999
• The Night Iguana Left Home, 1999
• Shadow in the Glass House, 2000
• The Sisters Club,2003
• All the Stars In the the Sky The Santa Fe Trail
  Dairy of Florrie Mack Ryder, 2003
• Penguin and Little Blue 2003
• Judy Moody, M.D 2004

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Did You Know

• Megan begins writing each book on a napkin.
• Her favorite book when she was a child was
  Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh.
• She is a lifetime member of the REAL Toad Pee
  Club!
• When Megan was born, the fifth girl in her
  family, the family doctor yelled, Its a boy!
  for a joke.

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Did You Know This

• Megan loves ice cream so much (especially
  Screamin Mimis) that she once fell down a hill
  when chasing the Ice-Cream Truck and had to have
  stitches!
• She has two dogs, two horses, and fifteen wild
  turkeys that land on her roof to wake her up
  every morning.

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How about This

• The Rubber Hand Trick is the best joke she ever
  played on her sisters. Read the first book, Judy
  Moody, to find out all about it.
• Her middle name is Jo She once wanted to change
  her name to Megan Jo Amy-Beth McDonald so it
     would contain the names of all four Little
  Women in the book by Louisa May Alcott.

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You Dont Know This Or Do You

• As a girl, she collected bugs, fancy toothpicks,
  scabs and Barbie doll heads!
• I collect stones, beach glass, books, weird
  pencils, tiles, dragonflies, crazy Band-Aids,
  mood rings, rubber stamps, postcards, puppets,
  troll dolls, PEZ thingies, charms, beads and sock
  monkeys, to name a few. I dont collect bugs,
  scabs and Barbie doll heads anymore though!

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Bibliography

• http//pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/McDo
  nald__Megan.html
• http//www.meganmcdonald.net/megan/megan.htm
• http//images.google.com/imgres?imgurlhttp//blog
  .tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/jessie-protect
  ing-megan3.jpgimgrefurlhttp//blog.tmcnet.com/bl
  og/tom-keating/personal-and-