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Cynthia Rylant

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Jun 06, 1954

Cynthia Rylant was born in Hopewell, Virginia

1982

Cynthia Rylant wrote When I was Young in the Mountains

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1984

Cynthia Rylant wrote Waiting to Waltz

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1985

Cynthia Rylant wrote The Relatives Came

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1987

Cynthia Rylant earned the Newbery Honor Book for A Fine White Dust

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1991

Cynthia Rylant won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for nonfiction for Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds

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1992

Cynthia Rylant was awarded the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for children's fiction for Missing May

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1993

Cynthia Rylant won the Newbery Medal

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