The award recognized four of her books from 1999 to 2012: Abduction!, Runaway Twin, Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, and Stolen Children. Kehret's polio memoir received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, won the 1998 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, annually determined by a vote of Vermont schoolchildren, and the 1999 Mark Twain Readers Award, a similar annual book award determined by a vote of Missouri schoolchildren in grades 4 to 6. In total, her books have won more than fifty state young reader awards. Many for her books have been selected by the American Library Association for its Recommended Books for Reluctant Readers. Children's Choice Awards from 29 states, the Forest Roberts Playwriting Award, and the Henry Bergh Award from the ASPCA. Among her many honors are the Pen Center West Award in Children's Literature, the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and illustrators. Peg Kehret's books for young people have earned a wide readership and critical acclaim. Some of Kehret's most famous works include Stolen Children, Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, and Runaway Twin. She has published forty-six works for middle school students, including four children's drama books. Career īefore Kehret began writing children's books, she wrote plays, radio commercials and magazine stories. She has a great-grandson, Seth, who also lives in Washington. Kehret has four grandchildren: Brett, Chelsea, Eric, and Mark.

In 1970, the Kehrets moved to Washington.

In 1955, she married Carl Kehret they moved to California and adopted two children, Bob and Anne. Kehret made a complete recovery, later graduating from Austin High School and then attending the University of Minnesota for one year. The experience changed Kehret's life, as she describes in her 1996 memoir Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio.

She was paralyzed from the neck down and had a nine-month hospital stay. She had each of the three types of polio: spinal, respiratory, and the least common kind, bulbar. Margaret Ann Schulze was born on November 11, 1936, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Peg Kehret (born Margaret Ann Schulze on November 11, 1936) is an American author, primarily writing for children between the ages of 10 and 15.

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