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New Awards for Nubs and Two Bobbies

Thank you to all the readers out there who continue read, love, and nominate Kirby's books!

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The Friendship Doll

A testament to all kinds of friendships.

Newbery Honor winner Kirby Larson’s tale of four girls and the Japanese Friendship Doll who changes their lives.

“I am Miss Kanagawa. In 1927, my 57 doll-sisters and I were sent from Japan to America as Ambassadors of Friendship. Our work wasn’t all peach blossoms and tea cakes. My story will take you from New York to Oregon, during the Great Depression. Though few in this tale are as fascinating as I, their stories won’t be an unpleasant diversion… .”

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Published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers

About Kirby Larson

Kirby Larson, author of young adult novels and children's booksKirby Larson is the acclaimed author of the 2007 Newbery Honor Book, Hattie Big Sky, a young adult novel she wrote inspired by her great-grandmother, Hattie Inez Brooks Wright, who homesteaded by herself in eastern Montana as a young woman. She continues her passion for historical fiction with two new titles: The Fences Between Us (Scholastic, September 2010) and The Friendship Doll (Delacorte, May 2011).

In 2006, Kirby began collaborating with long-time friend, Mary Nethery. This partnership has produced two award-winning nonfiction picture books: Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship and Survival (Walker) and Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine and a Miracle (Little Brown).

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