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William Durbin is an author and teacher who lives at the edge of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Wilderness. A winner of the Great Lakes Book Award and a two-time winner of the Minnesota Book award, Mr. Durbin has published ten novels for young readers, including The Broken Blade, Wintering, Song of Sampo Lake, Blackwater Ben, The Darkest Evening, and three books in Scholastic's My Name Is America series: The Journal of Sean Sullivan, The Journal of Otto Peltonen, and The Journal of C.J. Jackson. His most recent novel, El Lector, is told from the viewpoint of a young girl named Bella Lorente, living in Ybor City, Florida during the height of the Great Depression.

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