Author Rhoda Blumberg Dies: Newbery Honor recipient Rhoda Blumberg died at home on June 6th at the age of 98. She wrote more than 25 nonfiction books for children, including Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun which received the 1986 Newbery Honor and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Her other books include Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy (HarperCollins, 2001). www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/70600-obituary-rhoda-blumberg.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=c4b88c01e7-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-c4b88c01e7-304449365
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