Background
Bechard was born in 1953 in Chico, California.
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Jonah Truman always has his hands full with avoiding the class bully, trying to get up the nerve to talk to girls, and struggling to earn money, and now he faces the ultimate challenge--his mother has started dating his principal.
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Bechard was born in 1953 in Chico, California.
Reed College.
She received her bachelor"s degree in English literature from Reed College in 1976. She lives in Tigard, Oregon. Her books are published in English, French, Swedish and Korean.
She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Leitich Smith, Cynthia. "Author Interview: Margaret Bechard on Spacer and Rat.
Cynsations. February 10, 2006. Brief Biographies: Famous Authors Volume(s) 17.
In 1996, Star Hatchling, a middle grade novel about first contact, received the Eleanor Cameron Award, a Golden Duck Award for Excellence in Children"s Science Fiction. Hanging on to Max, a story about a teenage father, was an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and School Library Journal Best Book of the Year in 2004.
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