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Mar 13, 2012 | ISBN 9780307929617

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    Mar 13, 2012 | ISBN 9780307929617 | Middle Grade (10 and up)

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Awards

North Dakota Flicker Tale Children’s Book Award WINNER 1995

Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award NOMINEE 1994

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Born:
May 17 in Minneapolis, Minnesota


Previous jobs: Farm hand, ranch hand, truck driver, sailor, dogsled racer, teacher, field engineer, editor, soldier, actor, director, trapper, professional archer, migrant farm worker, singer


Hobbies: Sailing, collecting and riding Harley Davidsons; twice ran the Iditarod, the challenging 1,000 mile dogsled race across Alaska


Inspiration for writing: After a librarian gave him a book to read–along with his own library card–Gary was hooked. He began spending hours alone in the basement of his apartment building, reading one book after another.

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