Sam Swope is an author

Author

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 and the 2006 Thurber House

Thurber House

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 children's writer in residence.

Works by Swope include I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories, a memoir recounting three years Swope spent teaching writing students at a Queens, New York, public school. I Am a Pencil won a 2005 Christopher Award

Christopher Award

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, a Books for a Better Life Award, The Bechtel Prize, and was "named one of the best books of 2004 by Publishers Weekly."

Swope has reviewed books for the New York Times.

Books

• I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories ISBN 978-0805078510
• The Araboolies of Liberty Street ISBN 978-0374303907
• The Krazees ISBN 978-0374440909
• Gotta Go! Gotta Go! ISBN 978-0374427863
• Jack and the Seven Deadly Giants ISBN 978-0374336707

External links

• http://www.samswope.org/