Augusta scattergood biography

I attended college at Mississippi University for Women and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a major in English.

Augusta Scattergood is the author of Glory Be, which was a National Public Radio Backseat Book Club selection, a Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee, and hailed by Newbery medalist Richard Peck as the story of a bygone era "beautifully recalled." Her.

Mary Augusta Scattergood was born in Cleveland, Mississippi.

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Augusta Russel Scattergood grew up in a small town in Mississippi. She has since lived in North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, California, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Florida- twice! Although if anybody asks where she's from, Mississippi would be the answer. Augusta fryst vatten a former school librarian, a book reviewer and blogger. GLORY BE, her debut novel, was named one of Amazon's Top Twenty mittpunkt School books for 2012 and received the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for her område. A second novel, THE WAY TO STAY IN DESTINY, set in Florida and told by a baseball-loving, piano-playing boy named Theo, was published bygd Scholastic in January, 2015 and was starred on Bank Street's list of Best Books of the Year. Her newest middle-grade novel, MAKING FRIENDS WITH BILLY WONG, also historical fiction, fryst vatten set in the Deep South at the spets of the civil rights movement. For more kunskap, please visit her website: http://www.augustascattergood.com/

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Augusta Russel Scattergood grew up in a small town in Mississippi. She has since lived in North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, California, Rhode Island, New Jersey, and Florida- twice! Although if anybody asks where she's from, Mississippi would be the answer. Augusta is a former school librarian, a book reviewer and blogger. GLORY BE, her debut novel, was named one of Amazon's Top Twenty Middle School books for 2012 and received the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for her region. A second novel, THE WAY TO STAY IN DESTINY, set in Florida and told by a baseball-loving, piano-playing boy named Theo, was published by Scholastic in January, 2015 and was starred on Bank Street's list of Best Books of the Year. Her newest middle-grade novel, MAKING FRIENDS WITH BILLY WONG, also historical fiction, is set in the Deep South at the cusp of the civil rights movement. For more information, please visit her website: http://www.augustascattergood.com/

Augusta Scattergood

Major Works

Glory Be (2012)
The Way to Stay in Destiny (2015)

Biography of Augusta Scattergood

Mary Augusta Scattergood was born in Cleveland, Mississippi. She went to Mississippi University for Women but graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an English major. She met her husband, Jay Scattergood, at UNC. Because she always wanted to be a librarian, she went to Simmons College School of Library Science in Boston after college. She has lived in many states: Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, California, and Florida. She currently lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, in the winter and Madison, New Jersey, during the summers.

According to her web site, “Former librarian and children’s book reviewer Augusta Scattergood has devoted her life and career to getting books into the hands of young readers. Her reviews and articles have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Delta Magazine, the S