“On that night after Phoebe had given her Pandora report, I thought about the Hope in Pandora's box. Maybe when everything seemed sad and miserable, Phoebe and I could both hope that something might start to go right.”

— Sharon Creech , Walk Two Moons

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American writer of children's novels 1945

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