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Ann Rinaldi was an American journalist and young adult fiction author. She was best known for her historical fiction, including In My Father's House, The Last Silk Dress, An Acquaintance with Darkness, A Break with Charity, Numbering All The Bones and Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons. She wrote more than forty novels, eight of which were listed as notable by the ALA. In 2000, Wolf by the Ears was listed as one of the best young adult novels of the preceding twenty-five years, and later of the last one hundred years. She also wrote for the Dear America series.
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