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Robert Sharenow is an award-winning writer and television producer. He is the author of the middle-grade novel The Girl in the Torch, as well as the teen novels My Mother the Cheerleader and The Berlin Boxing Club. Since its publication in 2012, The Berlin Boxing Club has been named a Sydney Taylor Book Award winner and an Amelia Walden Award finalist, and has received multiple received multiple starred reviews, as well as a spot on ALA’s Best Books for Young Adults list. The novel has been published in several countries and languages and is perennially taught in high school curriculums in the United States and around the world. Sharenow lives in New York with his wife and two daughters.

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