Years later her husband began showing signs of severe mental illness, requiring her to seek out treatment for him all over the country. When Naylor was 18 years old, she married her first husband and they soon moved to Chicago where she worked as a clinical secretary in a university hospital. Naylor graduated from Joliet Township High School in 1951 and from Joliet Junior College in 1953. She decided to expand, sending her writing to youth magazines Highlights, Seventeen, and Jack and Jill, receiving two years of rejection letters. She wrote a baseball story named "Mike's Hero" and was paid $4.67 for it.
When she was 16 years old, a Sunday school teacher asked her to write a story for the church magazine. She began writing her own stories when she was in elementary school. Her favorite book as a child was Huckleberry Finn. She has said that she never felt poor, as her parents had a book collection and read stories aloud to her and her siblings until adolescence. She grew up during the Great Depression with her older sister Norma and younger brother John. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in Anderson, Indiana. Naylor is best known for her children's-novel quartet Shiloh (a 1992 Newbery Medal winner) and for her "Alice" book series, one of the most frequently challenged books of the last decade. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s fourth book in the Newbery Award–winning Shiloh series-following Shiloh, Shiloh Season, and Saving Shiloh -“seamlessly interlaces themes of tolerance, compassion, and forgiveness… explores the interconnectedness of family members, communities, and the dogs they love” ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (born January 4, 1933) is an American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction.
And why are his daughters so skittish around him? And what’s happened to Judd’s dogs? With Christmas right around the corner, Marty has a lot of questions, and getting the right answers might just take a Christmas miracle. Doubt, blame, and anger spread faster than the flames-flames that are fanned by the new minister, who seems fonder of fire and brimstone than love and mercy. Even Judd has been working to improve his reputation.īut just as the townsfolk grow more accepting of Judd, a fire in the woods destroys many homes, including Judd’s, and Judd’s newly formed reputation. Anywhere Marty goes, the beagle’s at his side, and Marty couldn’t be happier about that. It’s been a year since Marty Preston rescued Shiloh from Judd Travers and his cruel ways, and since then, Marty and Shiloh have been inseparable. Christmas is coming and Marty and his rescued pup Shiloh are sure glad about that-for their town is running low on love and understanding and they hope that the joy of the holiday will bring with it the generosity of spirit that’s so lacking.
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