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Margi Preus

Writer

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Margi Preus is a writer.

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Profession: Writer

About Margi Preus

American children's writer... | Margi Preus is an American children's writer. She is a 2011 Newbery Honor winner and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Heart of a Samurai. Her books have won multiple awards, honored as ALA/ALSC Notables, landed on many "best of" lists, featured on NPR, chosen for community rea

Quotes by Margi Preus

“The door through which he had glimpsed such wondrous light, he had walked through. He had encountered both beauty and pain. Now…

Beauty

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“These shells are just like the people of the world, Okachan,' Manjiro said, speaking not just to his mother, but to everyone.…

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Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Bodybuilding

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“Look at this world! So vast! So wide! Huge masses of land spread across it; multitudes of green and brown islands dotted…

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“Different versions of a true story”

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“Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the…

Past

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A smile becomes you or perhaps you become you when you smile.

Smile

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A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.

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