Joan Bauer

by Alleen Pace Nilsen

Joan Bauer is one of the most popular young adult novelists today. She is well-respected not only by her readers, but also by librarians and critics, having won a Newbery Honor for Hope Was Here (2001), among other awards. Drawing on personal experiences with divorce and family alcoholism, Bauer has her seemingly ordinary teenage characters face situations that test, and prove, their maturity and confidence. Following an introduction to Bauer's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313335508
• ISBN13: 9780313335501
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12