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Joan has also been the recipient of the Michigan Thumbs-up! Award for Children's Literature...Her books have won numerous other awards, among them the Newbery Honor Medal, the LA Times Book Prize, the Christopher Award, and the Golden Kite Award of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. A New York Times best-selling author, she has been interviewed on radio shows nationwide and appeared on both network and cable television.