Kathryn Erskine won the young people's literature award for Mockingbird, about an 11-year-old with Asperger's syndrome coping with her brother's death.

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My co-author on Just Start , Charlie, was once interviewing a young woman, Kathryn, for a sales position.

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The 3-D animated film, from Warner Bros. studio, is based on the popular series of young adult novels by Kathryn Lasky.

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