He lives in Portland, Maine with his wife, the artist Sandi Ste. George.
(meta data) TITLE: Phillip Hoose | Authors | Macmillan Skip to main content # Phillip Hoose Gordon Chibroski Phillip Hoose is an award-winning author of books, essays, stories, songs and articles. Although he first wrote for adults, he turned his attention to children and young adults in part to keep up with his own daughters. His book Claudette Colvin won a National Book Award and was dubbed a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2009. He is also the author of Hey, Little Ant, co-authored by his daughter, Hannah; It's Our World, Too!; The Race to Save the Lord God Bird; The Boys Who Challenged Hitler; and We Were There, Too!, a National Book Award finalist. He has received a Jane Addams Children's Book Award, a Christopher Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and multiple Robert F. Sibert Honor Awards, among numerous honors. He was born in South Bend, Indiana, and grew up in the towns of South Bend, Angola, and Speedway, Indiana. He was educated at Indiana University and the Yale School of Forestry. He lives in Portland, Maine. Newbery Honor Book National Book Awards Winner National Book Awards Finalist ## Phillip Hoose Author Web Site ### Related Links ### SIGN UP FORAUTHOR UPDATES ### MACMILLAN NEWSLETTER Sign up to receive information about new books, author events, and special offers. Sign up now Author on the Web Books by the Author ### Watch The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose book trailer ### The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose book trailer The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pederson and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits and eventual imprisonment helped spark a full-blown Danish resistance. Interweaving his own narrative with the recollections of Knud himself, here is Phillip Hoose's inspiring story of these young war heroes. The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose book trailer National Book Award Winner: Claudette Colvin #### More Media Access more related media on the web Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 Gordon Chibroski ### Phillip Hoose Author Web Site ### Related Links ### RELATED Read an interview with Phillip Hoose ## Attucks! Phillip Hoose FSG Books for Young Readers Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) A NYPL Best Book for Teens of 2018A 2018 Booklist Youth Editors' ChoiceA Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Book of 2018A Kirkus... Available in: ## The Boys Who Challenged Hitler Phillip Hoose FSG Books for Young Readers Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) A true account of seven Danish teens who dared to fight the Nazi war machine, from a National Book Award- and Newbery Honor-winning author. Available in: ## The Race to Save the Lord God Bird Phillip Hoose FSG Books for Young Readers Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch... Available in: ## Moonbird Phillip Hoose FSG Books for Young Readers Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It's time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind. He... Available in: VIEW MORE WORKS BY THIS
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Phillip Hoose
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Hoose was born in South Bend, Indiana, grew up in the Indiana towns of South Bend, Angola, and Speedway, and attended Indiana University.  A graduate of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Hoose was for 37 years a staff member of The Nature Conservancy, dedicated to preserving the plants, animals and natural communities of the Earth. Hoose has two children, Hannah and Ruby, who are grown.  