Wendelin van draanen husbandry and farming

Winners of the Kirkus Prizes Announced. White Award-winning children's author Wendelin Van Draanen has always given her all to everything she does. For years, she was a high school computer science teacher in central California, where she taught computer programming. She also coordinated the yearbook and managed the school newspaper.

She is also a wife and a mother of two boys.

Summary: This book contains 25 projects about living organisms, like bacteria, fungi, and protozoans as well as plants and animals.

She recently retired from teaching to write full-time. Although she loved teaching, she always knew that she wanted to be a writer. Determined to get in some writing time, she would rise every morning at 5 a. For ten years, she honed her craft and endured rejections for her work, which were adult novels. But her hard work and discipline paid off.

One day she decided to change her viewpoint, and to write with the voice of a 12 year-old. In she won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for best children's mystery.

In tropical fish farms, regular pond cleaning and water exchange can prevent the buildup of harmful organic matter and pollutants.

Her books are known for their realistic dialogue, fascinating plots and wonderful sense of humor. Booklist calls Sammy Keyes, "an intelligent, gutsy, flawed, and utterly likable heroine. Library Journal says of Flipped , "Well-rounded secondary characters keep subplots rolling in this funny, fast-paced, egg-cellent winner.