She decided to expand, sending her writing to youth magazines Highlights, Seventeen, and Jack and Jill, receiving two years of rejection letters. She wrote a baseball story named "Mike's Hero" and was paid $4.67 for it. When she was 16 years old, a Sunday school teacher asked her to write a story for the church magazine. She began writing her own stories when she was in elementary school. Her favorite book as a child was Huckleberry Finn. She has said that she never felt poor, as her parents had a book collection and read stories aloud to her and her siblings until adolescence. She grew up during the Great Depression with her older sister Norma and younger brother John. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born in Anderson, Indiana. Naylor is best known for her children's-novel quartet Shiloh (a 1992 Newbery Medal winner) and for her "Alice" book series, one of the most frequently challenged books of the last decade. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (born January 4, 1933) is an American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction.
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