Gary Schmidt

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Gary Schmidt lives with his family on a one-hundred-fifty-year-old farm in Alto, Michigan where he splits wood, plants gardens, writes, and feeds the wild cats that drop by. He is the author of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminister Boy which was both a Newbery Honor Book and Michael L. Printz Honor and The Wednesday Wars, a Newbery Honor and an ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice.