The source from which Sharon Creech draws ideas for her stories can be traced by looking at her long list of former addresses — her upbringing in the American Midwest was the basis for her Newbery Medal-winning Walk Two Moons. The transatlantic journey in The Wanderer, a Newbery Honor book, repeats a trip Creech, who’s spent most of her adult life in Europe, has made many times. Her years teaching at an international school in Lugano, Switzerland, provided the setting for her novel, Bloomability…

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