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Ouida Sebestyen

Autor(a) de Words by Heart

9+ Works 787 Membros 9 Críticas

About the Author

Obras por Ouida Sebestyen

Words by Heart (1968) 381 exemplares
The Girl in the Box (1988) 173 exemplares
Out of Nowhere (1994) 172 exemplares
Far From Home (1980) 28 exemplares
On Fire (1985) 17 exemplares
Iou's (1982) 8 exemplares
Encerrada (Spanish Edition) (1991) 5 exemplares
Brand 2 exemplares

Associated Works

Sixteen: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults (1985) — Contribuidor — 161 exemplares
Visions: 19 Short Stories (1987) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
Center Stage: One-Act Plays for Teenage Readers and Actors (1990) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
Connections (1989) — Contribuidor — 44 exemplares
Words by Heart [1985 TV movie] (1988) — Original book — 16 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1924-02-13
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
Vernon, Texas, USA (birth)
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Educação
University of Colorado
Prémios e menções honrosas
National Book Award for Young People’s Literature (1982)
The International Reading Association Award

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Ouida Sebestyen, nee Dockery, was born February 13, 1924, in Vernon, TX. She married Adam Sebestyen in 1960 and had one son. She attended the U. of Colorado. She began writing at age eighteen, but did not publish her first book, Words by Heart until 1979. Part of this novel had originally appeared as a short story in the magazine 'Ingenue' in 1968. The book was well received, and Ms. Sebestyen has continued to write fiction for young adults. She draws her inspiration, and often her setting, from the American West, especially its contrasting harshness and beauty, and the demands it places upon an individual's survival. While not all her novels are set in a sharply defined Western setting, throughout all of her books she focuses on characterization and detail, with an emphasis on human emotions and development. Her work is noted for its honesty and provacative story lines that do not always provide a conventional happy ending. Biographical Sources: Something About the Author, vols. 39, 140 Something About the Author Autobiography Series, vol. 10 Children's Literature Review, vol. 17

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lcslibrarian | 4 outras críticas | Aug 13, 2020 |
 
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lcslibrarian | 4 outras críticas | Aug 13, 2020 |
The girl in a box... I still can't remember why I picked it up at a school book fair, but I can remember the emotions that flowed off the page. This book does leave you in an emotional wreck at the fate of the girl. Does she die? did she live? It's a question that's never answered, but reading this girl's story gripped me from the very first line.

A brilliant read and a book that stays with you long after you've finished.
 
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Claire.Warner | 3 outras críticas | Feb 8, 2015 |
The girl in a box... I still can't remember why I picked it up at a school book fair, but I can remember the emotions that flowed off the page. This book does leave you in an emotional wreck at the fate of the girl. Does she die? did she live? It's a question that's never answered, but reading this girl's story gripped me from the very first line.

A brilliant read and a book that stays with you long after you've finished.
 
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Claire.Warner | 3 outras críticas | Feb 8, 2015 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
9
Also by
6
Membros
787
Popularidade
#32,341
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
9
ISBN
44
Línguas
3

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