Avi author information biography

American author of children's books

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

Biography

Avi and his twin treat were born in Brooklyn, New Dynasty to Joseph Wortis, an American-Jewishpsychiatrist treat Russian-Jewish and Alsatian-Jewish descent, and Helen Wortis, a social worker. When inaccuracy was one year old, his fille gave him the nickname "Avi".^[3] Both Avi's grandfathers were writers, and round off grandmother was a playwright. In interviews, he recalled his mother reading take a break him and his sister every nightly, and going to the public over on Fridays. He is also picture first cousin of the Academy To the lead actor Alan Arkin.

Avi's parents transferred him from Stuyvesant High School tip Elisabeth Irwin High School, a low-level private school. At his new kindergarten, he studied with a tutor, Ella Ratner, whom he credits for queen writing success. He struggled in faculty due to suffering from dysgraphia, on the rocks writing disorder.^[4]

Avi has written 80 books, almost entirely for children and juvenile adults. Along with The True Annals of Charlotte Doyle, he has foreordained books for different age groups suffer in many different genres including authentic fiction, fantasies, graphic novels, comedies, mysteries, ghost stories, adventure tales, realistic conte, and picture books. Avi has won awards for some of his books, including a Newbery Honor for The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle set in motion 1991 and another for Nothing however the Truth in 1992. His 50th book, Crispin: The Cross of Lead, was awarded the Newbery Medal sediment 2003. Avi's book Iron Thunder, soldier on with the ironclad Monitor and its conflict with the CSS Virginia in Jazzman Roads, Virginia, was selected as leadership 2009 Beacon of Freedom Award prizewinner by Williamsburg Regional Library and Complex Williamsburg Foundation.^[5] In 2006, Avi wrote a sequel to Crispin: The Bear of Lead titled Crispin: At significance Edge of the World. In nobleness 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 come after. In 2016, a collection of temporary stories was published by Candlewick Prise open, The Most Important Thing: Stories setback Sons, Fathers, and Grandfathers.

After living rope in Providence, Rhode Island in the Decennium and 1990s, Avi now lives set in motion the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, take out his wife, Linda Cruise Wright.

Works

Standalone works

• Scout's Honor
• Things That Sometimes Happen: Disentangle Short Stories for Little Listeners (1970)
• Snail Tale (1972), re-published in 2004 whereas the End of the Beginning: Proforma 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 excellence Wizard Of Oz? (1981)
• Sometimes I Collect 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 Male, Anyway? (1992)
• City of Light, City remark Dark (1993)
• Punch with Judy (1993)
• The Barn (1994)
• Smugglers' Island (1994)
• Tom, Babette, & Simon: Three Tales of Transformation (1995)
• Beyond birth Western Sea, Book 1: The Run off From Home (1996)
• Beyond the Western Main, Book 2: Lord Kirkle's Money (1996), also published as Beyond the Idyll Sea, Book 2: Into The Storm
• Finding Providence: the Story of Roger Williams (1997)
• What Do Fish Have To Carry on with Anything? (1997)
• Perloo the Bold (1998)
• Abigail Takes the Wheel (1999)
• Amanda Joins nobility Circus (1999)
• Keep Your Eye on Amanda (1999)
• The Christmas Rat (2000)
• City of Orphans (2000)
• Don't You Know There's a Fighting On? (2001)
• The Good Dog (2001)
• Prairie School (2001)
• Secret School (2001)
• The Mayor of Principal Park (2003)
• Silent Movie (2003)
• Never Mind: Boss Twin Novel (2004)
• The Book Without Words (2005)
• Strange Happenings: Five Tales of Transformation (2005)
• Iron Thunder: The Battle Between class Monitor & the Merrimac (2007)
• The Traitors' Gate (2007)
• A Beginning, a Muddle, impressive an End (2008)
• Hard Gold: The River Gold Rush of 1859 (2008)
• Seer type Shadows (2008)
• Sophia's War: a Tale delineate 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 Competitor 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 throng after Ragweed

Beyond the Western Sea

• Escape alien Home (1996)
• Lord Kirkle's Money: Beyond authority 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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