|Title: abduction |Abduction! |
|Author: |Peg Kehret |
|Publisher: |Dutton Children’s Books |
|Copyright Date: |2004 |
|About the Author: |Peg Kehret was born Margaret Ann Schulze in Wisconsin, moved to Minnesota when she was eight, and attended the University of Minnesota and California State |
|(Interesting facts, etc) |Colleges for one year each. When she was a child, she had a bout with polio, which paralyzed her from the neck down for nine months. She married Carl |
| |Kehret, adopted two children and moved to Washington State where she still lives. She published her first book in 1979 and her first children’s book in 1985|
| |and has since written dozens more. She received her first Children’s Book Honor in 1986 and has received many more since. She and her husband traveled all |
| |over the United States in a motor home so she could speak at schools, libraries and conferences. She is active in animal welfare causes, enjoys reading, |
| |watching baseball and gymnastics, and playing with her pets and four grandchildren.