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She wrote 19 children's books and one adult novel. Three books were chosen as Newbery Honor Books from 1954 to 1945. She won the Newbery medal in 1952 for Ginger Pye. Her early books, particularly those about the Moffat family, published in the early 1940's, remain her most popular work.
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