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Pat Schmatz

Biography

Pat Schmatz

Pat Schmatz is the author of five novels for teens. 

BLUEFISH (Candlewick 2011) won the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship while still a work in progress. It was awarded Bank Street College of Education's 2012 Josette Frank Award for fiction and the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for the midwest. It is a Junior Library Guild Selection, an ALA Notable Children's Book, and winner of the Wisconsin Library Association's Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award. 

Other novels are LIZARD RADIO (2015),MOUSETRAPS (Carolrhoda 2008), CIRCLE THE TRUTH (Carolrhoda 2007) and MRS. ESTRONSKY AND THE UFO (Little Blue Works 2001).

Pat Schmatz