Sarah Weeks (born March 18, 1955) is an American writer of children's books, perhaps best known for the novel So B. It which has won several juvenile literature awards. In 2007 it won the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award and William Allen White Children's Book Award.

Biography

Sarah Weeks was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1955, the daughter of an English professor. She has a brother and a sister. When she was a little girl, the things she liked to do best were playing music and writing. When she grew up, she went to New York City, married, and had two sons, Gabriel and Nathaniel.

Selected works

Chapter books

1. Oggie Cooder series

2. Oggie Cooder

3. Oggie Cooder, Party Animal

4. Misadventures of Guy Strang series

5. Regular Guy (Laura Geringer/HarperCollins, 1999)

6. Guy Time

7. My Guy

8. Guy Wire

9. Boyds Will Be Boyds series

10. Beware of Mad Dog

11. Get Well Soon or Else!

12. Danger! Boys Dancing!

13. Fink's Funk!

14. Other

15. Tripping Over the Lunch Lady and Other School Stories

16. The Little Factory

Picture books

• Hurricane City (HarperCollins, 1993), illustrated by James Warhola

Novels

• As Simple as it Seems

• So B. It

• Jumping the Scratch

• Up All Night

• PIE

• Honey

• Save Me a Seat

• Soof

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