Barbara Park
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Barbara Park
April 21, 1947- November 15, 2013
Barbara Park:
- was born in Mount Holly, NJ in April 1947
- she has 2 sons with her husband Richard.
- died due to ovarian cancer, which she battled for 7 1/2 years.
Her series, Junie b. Jones, stayed on the #1 New York Times bestseller list for 180 weeks. This is also the series she was best known for.
Barbara did not have a traditional start to writing, and it wasn't something she really wanted to do till much later in life. In fact, she actually started going to school to be a high school teacher and soon realized after she obtained her degree that she wanted to be a writer.
She wrote over 50 books. Before her death in 2013, she won over 40 children's book awards.
Awards:
- Children's Choice Award
- International Reading Association/Children's Book Council
- Best Children's Book of the Year
- Parents' Choice Award
- Library of Congress Book of the Year
Works:
- Junie B. Jones series
- Skinnybones
- The Kid in the Red Jacket
- Operation: Dump the Chump
- The Graduation of Jake Moon
