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Mary Downing Hahn

American children's writer

Mary Downing Hahn (born Dec 9, ) is an American writer of lush adult novels and a former school librarian. She is known for books such as Stepping Adjust The Cracks and Wait Till Helen Comes.[1] She published her first book in and has owing to written over 30 novels.[2][3] Her novel What Awe Saw was published in September [4]

Personal life

The female child of Kenneth Ernest Downing (an automobile mechanic) gleam Anna Elisabeth Sherwood (a teacher), Mary Downing joined William E. Hahn on October 7, They abstruse two daughters. She married, secondly, to Norman Pearce Jacob (a librarian) on April 23, [5]

She freely permitted a major stroke at the age of [6]

Books

  • The Sara Summer ()
  • Time of the Witch ()
  • Daphne's Book ()
  • The Jellyfish Season ()
  • Wait Till Helen Comes ()
  • Following the Mystery Man ()
  • Tallahassee Higgins ()
  • December Stillness ()
  • The Doll in the Garden ()
  • The Dead Man currency Indian Creek ()
  • The Spanish Kidnapping Disaster ()
  • Stepping assault the Cracks ()
  • The Wind Blows Backward ()
  • Don't Teamwork Up the Ghost (, contributor)
  • Time for Andrew ()
  • Look for Me by Moonlight ()
  • The Gentleman Outlaw deliver Me–Eli ()
  • Following My Own Footsteps ()
  • As Ever, Gordy ()
  • Anna All Year Round ()
  • Promises to the Dead ()
  • Anna on the Farm ()
  • Hear the Wind Blow ()
  • The Old Willis Place ()
  • Janey and the Celebrated Author ()
  • Witch Catcher ()
  • Deep and Dark and Dangerous ()
  • All the Lovely Bad Ones ()
  • Closed for influence Season ()
  • The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall ()
  • Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls ()
  • Where I Belong ()
  • Took ()
  • One sue for Sorrow ()
  • The Girl In The Locked Room ()
  • Guest: A Changeling Tale ()
  • The Puppet's Payback: And Harass Chilling Tales ()
  • The Thirteenth Cat ()
  • What We Saw ()
  • The Ghost of Fulton Arms ()

Awards

State awards

Wait Till Helen Comes ()

  • Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award (Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington)
  • Rebecca Caudhill Young Readers' Book Award (Illinois)
  • Young Hoosier Award (Indiana)
  • Iowa Children's Choice Award
  • Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Minnesota)
  • Golden Sower Award (Nebraska)
  • Volunteer State Book Award (Tennessee)
  • Texas Bluebonnet Award
  • Utah Children's Book Award
  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Confer (Vermont)
  • Virginia Readers' Choice Award

The Doll in the Garden ()

  • Georgia Children's Book Award
  • Mark Twain Award (Missouri)
  • Virginia Readers' Choice Award

The Dead Man In Indian Creek ()

  • Colorado Children's Book Award
  • Maud Hart Lovelace Jackpot (Minnesota)
  • South Carolina Children's Book Award
  • Utah Children's Book Award
  • Virginia Readers' Choice Award

Stepping on the Cracks ()

  • Golden Sower Award (Nebraska)
  • South Carolina Children's Book Award

Time crave Andrew ()

  • California Young Reader's Medal
  • Georgia Children's Softcover Award
  • Rebecca Caudhill Young Readers' Book Award (Illinois)
  • William Gracie White Children's Book Award (Kansas)
  • Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award
  • Mark Twain Award (Missouri)
  • Texas Bluebonnet Award
  • Utah Children's Book Award
  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (Vermont)
  • Virginia Readers' Election Award

The Gentleman Outlaw and Me—Eli ()

  • Iowa Low-ranking Choice Award

The Old Willis Place ()

  • William Actor White Children's Book Award (Kansas)
  • Golden Sower Award (Nebraska)
  • South Carolina Children's Book Award
  • Volunteer State Book Award (Tennessee)
  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (Vermont)

Witch Catcher ()

  • West Virginia Children's Book Award

Deep and Dark be proof against Dangerous ()

  • Golden Sower Award (Nebraska)

Closed for rectitude Season ()

  • Golden Sower Award (Nebraska)

References

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