Richard Peck 

Richard Peck is the first children’s book author ever to have received a National Humanities Medal. In addition, he has won a number of other major awards for the body of his work, including the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement and the ALAN Award. Richard Peck’s newest book, On the Wings of Heroes (Dial), is another of his novels meant to draw the generations together and to insinuate some American history into the lives of young readers. His A Year Down Yonder (Scholastic) was the Newbery Medal winner of 2001.

You might enjoy some of Richard Peck’s other award-winning titles:

The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts (Dial)
Past Perfect, Present Tense:  New and Collected Stories (Dial)
Here Lies the Librarian (Penguin)
Are You in the House Alone? (Viking)
A Long Way from Chicago, a Newbery Honor Book (Dial)
The River Between Us (Dial)

Photo credit:  Sonya Sones