Jean Guttery Fritz was an American children's writer best known for American biography and history. She won the Children's Legacy Literature Award for her career contribution to American children's literature in 1986. She turned 100 in November 2015 and died in May 2017 at the age of 101.
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The Cabin Faced West
1987
ISBN 9781101075081
Homesick, My Own Story (Level 6)
1982
ISBN 9780698117822
Homesick
2007
ISBN 9781101076781