· Margaret McMullan is the acclaimed author of When I Crossed No-Bob and How I Found the Strong, as well as the adult novels In My Mother’s House and When Warhol Was Still Alive. Her work has appeared in such publications as Glamour, the Chicago Tribune, and Michigan Quarterly www.doorway.ru: HMH Books. `How I Found the Strong' is a fictional account (but based on the author's family) of "Shanks" Russell's living through the Civil War in Mississippi with his father, brother, mother, sister and grandparents. Shanks' father and brother go to fight and Shanks is left with his mother, grandmother and Buck, the family slave/5(18). Welcome to the How I Found the Strong website. Margaret McMullan Email: mm44@www.doorway.ru Learn about Margaret's other books at www.doorway.ru * Winner Indiana Best Young Adult Book of Fiction * Winner Mississippi Institute of Arts Letters Award for Fiction.
How I Found The Strong was her first YA work. It's beautifully written in a rhythmic style. The author based the story on her own family ties, both in setting and the main character - representative of her grandmother's great-uncle. McMullan's sketch of the Civil War is a well-done introduction to the time and reasons for the war. How I Found the Strong (), a historical novel for middle-grade readers by American author Margaret McMullan, follows the life of year-old Frank "Shanks" Russell, who is left behind with his mother and grandparents when his father and older brother join the Confederate Army. As Shanks, his family, and their slave, Buck, endure hardships and shortages, they grow closer together, and. A family memoir by Margaret McMullan entitled Where the Angels Lived. Margaret McMullan was born in in Newton County, Mississippi. Her father, James McMullan, was born in Lake, Mississippi. Her mother, Madeline Engel De Janosi, was born in Vienna, Austria, in They met at a dinner party in Washington, D. C.
How I Found the Strong (), a historical novel for middle-grade readers by American author Margaret McMullan, follows the life of year-old Frank “Shanks” Russell, who is left behind with his mother and grandparents when his father and older brother join the Confederate Army. As Shanks, his family, and their slave, Buck, endure hardships and shortages, they grow closer together, and Shanks begins to question the point of the devastating war. How I Found the Strong. Margaret McMullan. Houghton Mifflin, - Juvenile Fiction - Margaret McMullan is the acclaimed author of When I Crossed No-Bob and How I Found the Strong, as well as the adult novels In My Mother’s House and When Warhol Was Still Alive. Her work has appeared in such publications as Glamour, the Chicago Tribune, and Michigan Quarterly Review.
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