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Newbery Medalist Karen Hesse recreates the body and soul-renewing experience of a summer downpour after a sweltering city heat wave.
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Karen S. Hesse (born August 29, 1952) is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings.She won the Newbery Medal for Out of the Dust (Scholastic, 1997) .Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation [CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) ], via Wikimedia Commons.
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