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Children's Nonfiction General

The Buried City of Pompeii: What It Was Like When Vesuvius Exploded

by (author) Shelley Tanaka

illustrated by Greg Ruhl

Publisher
Scholastic Canada Ltd
Initial publish date
Oct 1998
Category
General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780590123761
    Publish Date
    Oct 1998
    List Price
    $7.99

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SHELLEY TANAKA is an award-winning author, translator and editor. She has written more than twenty books for children and young adults, winning the Orbis Pictus Award, the Mr. Christie’s Book Award, the Science in Society Book Award and the Information Book Award, and she has twice been nominated for the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis. Other honors include Texas Blue Bonnet runner-up, School Library Journal Best Books, ALA Notables and IRA Young Adults’ Choice. Her translation of Michel Noel’s Good for Nothing won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and was on the IBBY Honor List (Commended). Shelley teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts, in the MFA Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.

 

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