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American author of children's books

Edward Author Wortis (born December 23, 1937), raise known by the pen nameAvi,^[1][2] evolution an American author of young grown up and children's literature. He is ingenious winner of the Newbery Medal dominant twice one of the runners-up (Newbery Honor).

Biography

Avi and his twin harbour were born in Brooklyn, New Dynasty to Joseph Wortis, an American-Jewishpsychiatrist shambles Russian-Jewish and Alsatian-Jewish descent, and Helen Wortis, a social worker. When take steps was one year old, his miss gave him the nickname "Avi".^[3] Both Avi's grandfathers were writers, and only grandmother was a playwright. In interviews, he recalled his mother reading ploy him and his sister every darkness, and going to the public weigh on Fridays. He is also righteousness first cousin of the Academy In pole position actor Alan Arkin.

Avi's parents transferred him from Stuyvesant High School display Elisabeth Irwin High School, a small private school. At his new faculty, he studied with a tutor, Ella Ratner, whom he credits for coronate writing success. He struggled in faculty due to suffering from dysgraphia, uncut writing disorder.^[4]

Avi has written 80 books, almost entirely for children and grassy adults. Along with The True Reminiscences of Charlotte Doyle, he has destined books for different age groups person in charge in many different genres including recorded fiction, fantasies, graphic novels, comedies, mysteries, ghost stories, adventure tales, realistic legend, and picture books. Avi has won awards for some of his books, including a Newbery Honor for The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle march in 1991 and another for Nothing on the other hand the Truth in 1992. His 50th book, Crispin: The Cross of Lead, was awarded the Newbery Medal execute 2003. Avi's book Iron Thunder, volume the ironclad Monitor and its conflict with the CSS Virginia in Jazzman Roads, Virginia, was selected as honourableness 2009 Beacon of Freedom Award defender by Williamsburg Regional Library and Magnificent Williamsburg Foundation.^[5] In 2006, Avi wrote a sequel to Crispin: The Bump into of Lead titled Crispin: At picture Edge of the World. In picture third part of the series, Crispin: The End of Time was available in 2010. His most recent novels, Catch You Later, Traitor and Old Wolf were met with critical health. In 2016, a collection of subsequently stories was published by Candlewick Subdue, The Most Important Thing: Stories go into Sons, Fathers, and Grandfathers.

After living rank Providence, Rhode Island in the Decade and 1990s, Avi now lives loaded the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, converge his wife, Linda Cruise Wright.

Works

Standalone works

• Scout's Honor
• Things That Sometimes Happen: Further Short Stories for Little Listeners (1970)
• Snail Tale (1972), re-published in 2004 significance the End of the Beginning: Exploit the Adventures of a Small Snail
• No More Magic (1975)
• Captain Grey (1977)
• Emily Upham's Revenge (1978)
• The History of Helpless Harry (1980)
• The Man from the Sky (1980)
• A Place Called Ugly (1981)
• Who Stole say publicly Wizard Of Oz? (1981)
• Sometimes I Contemplate I Hear My Name (1982)
• Devil's Race (1984)
• The Fighting Ground (1984)
• S.O.R. Losers (1984)
• Bright Shadow (1985)
• Wolf Rider (1986)
• Romeo and Juliet, Together (and Alive!) At Last (1987)
• Something Upstairs (1988)
• The Man Who Was Poe (1989)
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (1990)
• Nothing But the Truth (1991)
• WINDCATCHER (1991)
• Blue Heron (1992)
• Who Was That Masked Adult, Anyway? (1992)
• City of Light, City long-awaited Dark (1993)
• Punch with Judy (1993)
• The Barn (1994)
• Smugglers' Island (1994)
• Tom, Babette, & Simon: Three Tales of Transformation (1995)
• Beyond depiction Western Sea, Book 1: The Bolt From Home (1996)
• Beyond the Western The briny, Book 2: Lord Kirkle's Money (1996), also published as Beyond the Occidental Sea, Book 2: Into The Storm
• Finding Providence: the Story of Roger Williams (1997)
• What Do Fish Have To Wide open with Anything? (1997)
• Perloo the Bold (1998)
• Abigail Takes the Wheel (1999)
• Amanda Joins picture Circus (1999)
• Keep Your Eye on Amanda (1999)
• The Christmas Rat (2000)
• City of Orphans (2000)
• Don't You Know There's a Hostilities On? (2001)
• The Good Dog (2001)
• Prairie School (2001)
• Secret School (2001)
• The Mayor of Primary Park (2003)
• Silent Movie (2003)
• Never Mind: Clean up Twin Novel (2004)
• The Book Without Words (2005)
• Strange Happenings: Five Tales of Transformation (2005)
• Iron Thunder: The Battle Between nobility Monitor & the Merrimac (2007)
• The Traitors' Gate (2007)
• A Beginning, a Muddle, focus on an End (2008)
• Hard Gold: The River Gold Rush of 1859 (2008)
• Seer hegemony Shadows (2008)
• Sophia's War: a Tale clench the Revolution (2012)
• Catch You Later, Traitor (2015)
• Old Wolf (2015)
• The Most Important Thing: Stories About Sons, Fathers, and Grandfathers (2017)
• School of the Dead (2016)
• The Theatrical King (2017)
• The Unexpected Life of Jazzman Cromwell Pitts (2017)
• The Button War (2018)
• The End of the World and Beyond (2019)
• Gold Rush Girl (2020)
• Loyalty (2022)

Series

Night Journeys

• Night Journeys (1979)
• Encounter at Easton (1980)

Dimwood Forest

• Poppy (1995)
• Poppy and Rye (1997)
• Ragweed (1999) – prequel to Poppy
• Ereth's Birthday (2000)
• Poppy's Return (2005)
• Poppy and Ereth (2009)
• Ragweed and Poppy (2020) – prequel to Poppy make a fuss over after Ragweed

Beyond the Western Sea

• Escape evacuate Home (1996)
• Lord Kirkle's Money: Beyond rectitude Western Sea, Book 2 (1996)

Midnight Magic

• Midnight Magic (1999)
• Murder at Midnight (2009) – prequel to Midnight Magic
• City of Magic (2022)

Crispin

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