Sarah Weeks

Sarah Weeks
Weeks in 2015.
Born	March 1955 (age 61) Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Genre	Picture books, chapter books, novels
Notable works	So B. It, Jumping the Scratch
Website
sarahweeks.com

Sarah Weeks (born March 18, 1955) is an American writer of children's books, perhaps best known for the novel So B. It which in 2007 won the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award^[1] and William Allen White Children's Book Award.

Life

Sarah Weeks was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1955, the daughter of an English professor. She has a brother and a sister. When she was a little girl, the things she liked to do best were playing music and writing. When she grew up, she went to New York City, married, and had two sons, Gabriel and Nathaniel.

Selected works

Chapter books Oggie Cooder series Oggie Cooder Oggie Cooder, Party Animal Guy series Regular Guy (Laura Geringer/HarperCollins, 1999) Guy Time My Guy Boyds Will Be Boyds series Beware of Mad Dog Get Well Soon or Else! Danger! Boys Dancing! Fink's Funk! Other Tripping Over the Lunch Lady and Other School Stories The Little Factory

Picture books Hurricane City (HarperCollins, 1993), illustrated by James Warhola[2] Novels As Simple as it Seems So B. It Jumping the Scratch Up All Night PIE Honey Save Me a Seat

References

1. Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award
2. "Hurricane city". Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2014-02-13.

External links

• Official website
• Sarah Weeks at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Sarah Weeks at Library of Congress Authorities, with 50 catalog records