Peg Kehret (born Margaret Ann Schulze on November 11, 1936) is an American author, primarily writing for children between the ages of 10 and 15.
[5] In addition to being a writer, she spent much of her life rescuing and caring for animals, including volunteering at the Seattle humane society for more than 25 years, inspiring many of her fictional works.
[5] Before Kehret began writing children's books, she wrote plays, radio commercials and magazine stories.
[6] She weaves character growth and age appropriate moral dilemmas into her forty-six works for middle school students, including four children's drama books.
[7][3][6] Her work is divided into subgenres of memoir, natural disaster, animal, novel, and horror adventure books.
One of her most famous memoirs is Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, in which she writes about her diagnosis and treatment in great detail.
Peg Kehret's books for young people have earned a wide readership and critical acclaim.
The award recognized four of her books from 1999 to 2012: Abduction!, Runaway Twin, Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, and Stolen Children.