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Jean Craighead George, 92, her books for young readers put nature at center

By Margalit Fox

 |  New York Times  

  May 18, 2012

Jean Craighead George, a Newbery Award-winning writer for young people whose books brought the natural world from the Catskill Mountains to the Alaskan tundra to wild, luminous life, died Tuesday in Mount Kisco, N.Y.

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