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Kathryn Lasky

American

June 24, 1944

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I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.

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Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.

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I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.

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Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

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Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.

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When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.

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