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Authors I more or less worship
- Maya Angelou
- Robert Fulghum
- Anne Lamott
- Frank McCourt
- Donna Jo Napoli
Subjects I'll read anything about
- Anne Frank
- Anne Sullivan Macy
- Armenian genocide
- Circuses
- Disney (the man and the World)
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Elephants
- Folklore (especially retellings)
- Helen Keller
- Holocaust
- Immigrants
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Salem witch trials
- Titanic
- Triangle Shirtwaist fire
- Tsar Nicholas II
Authors whose porches I'd like to live under:
- Jay Asher
- Shannon Hale
- Patricia Polacco
- Brian Selznick
- Sarah Stewart
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