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Gary D. Schmidt is an American children's writer of nonfiction books and young adult novels. Both a Newbery Honor and a Printz Honor was awarded to the book Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and a Newbery Honor was awarded to The Wednesday Wars. He is a Professor of English at Calvin College, which is in Grand Rapids, Michigan.He lives with his family on a 150-year-old farm in Alto, Michigan, where he splits wood, plants gardens, writes, and feeds the wild cats that drop by.

✵ 1957
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Works

Okay for Now
Okay for Now
Gary D. Schmidt
The Wednesday Wars
The Wednesday Wars
Gary D. Schmidt
Orbiting Jupiter
Orbiting Jupiter
Gary D. Schmidt
Okay for Now
Okay for Now
Gary D. Schmidt
The Wednesday Wars
The Wednesday Wars
Gary D. Schmidt
Orbiting Jupiter
Orbiting Jupiter
Gary D. Schmidt
Gary D. Schmidt: 14 quotes1 like

Famous Gary D. Schmidt Quotes

“Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.”

Gary D. Schmidt book Okay for Now

Source: Okay for Now

“You know, when someone has been crying, something gets left in the air. It's not something you can see or smell, or feel. Or draw. But it's there.”

Gary D. Schmidt book Okay for Now

Source: Okay for Now

“Just swell.”

Gary D. Schmidt book The Wednesday Wars

The Wednesday Wars

“Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.”

Gary D. Schmidt book The Wednesday Wars

Source: The Wednesday Wars

“Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas.

In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.”

Gary D. Schmidt book Okay for Now

Source: Okay for Now

Gary D. Schmidt Quotes about books

“OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.”

Gary D. Schmidt book Okay for Now

Source: Okay for Now

“Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.”

Gary D. Schmidt

Source: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

“You know how teachers are. If they get you to take out a book they love too, they're yours for life.”

Gary D. Schmidt book Orbiting Jupiter

Source: Orbiting Jupiter

Gary D. Schmidt Quotes

“She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand.
You know what that feels like?
Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.”

Gary D. Schmidt book Okay for Now

Source: Okay for Now

“Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.”

Gary D. Schmidt book The Wednesday Wars

Source: The Wednesday Wars

“If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.”

Gary D. Schmidt book The Wednesday Wars

Source: The Wednesday Wars

“The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.”

Gary D. Schmidt book The Wednesday Wars

Source: The Wednesday Wars

“The world is Trouble… and Grace. That is all there is.”

Gary D. Schmidt

Source: Trouble

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