Her books have been shortlisted for awards in New Zealand, the UK, the USA, Belgium and Germany. Jordan has won a number of prestigious awards. Her knowledge of sign language and her experience working as a teacher aide with deaf children is a clear influence on her historical fiction, The Raging Quiet. Her early work in children’s literature was as an illustrator, and she has written picture books, middle grade fiction, and young adult fiction. The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan - OUTSIDERS Widowed just two days after her unwilling marriage to a man twice her age, Marnie finds herself an outsider i. Her adult life has been spent in Tauranga. Jordan was born on 8 June 1949 in Hawera, New Zealand, and grew up in Normanby, near Mount Taranaki.
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