the Newbery Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing the year's best children's book by an American author. In the U.K., it won the annual Children's Book Award for long novels, voted by children, and the Reading Association Award. In 1997, it also won the Literaturhaus Award, Austria, and the Young Adult Sequoyah Award, Oklahoma, USA . Bloomability won the IRA/CBC Children's Choices award in 1999. The Wanderer won the Parents' Choice Award, USA, in 2000, and it was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal. It was one of eight books on the Carnegie Medal shortlist in the U.K. Creech and Love That Dog were a commended runner-up for the 2001 Carnegie Medal and she won the 2002 Medal from the British librarians, recognizing Ruby Holler as the year's best children's book published in the U.K. Works 1990 The Recital, novel for adults, published as Sharon Rigg 1991 Nickel Malley, novel for adults, published as Sharon Rigg 1992 The Center of the Universe: Waiting for the Girl, play 1990 Absolutely Normal Chaos 1994 Walk Two Moons 1996 Pleasing the Ghost 1997 Chasing Redbird 1998 Bloomability 2000 Fishing in the Air 2000 The Wanderer 2001 Love That Dog 2001 A Fine, Fine School 2002 Ruby Holler 2003 Granny Torrelli Makes Soup 2004 Heartbeat 2005 Replay 2006 Who's That Baby 2007 The Castle Corona (Illustrated by David Diaz) 2008 Hate That Cat 2009 The Unfinished Angel 2012 The Great Unexpected 2013 The Boy on the Porch 2016 Moo 2018 Saving Winslow Notes References External links American children's writers Carnegie Medal in Literature winners Newbery Honor winners Newbery Medal winners Hiram College alumni People from South Euclid, Ohio Writers from Ohio Writers from New Jersey 1945 births Living people