Information on avi the author of poppy

American author of children's books

Edward Irving Wortis (born December 23, ), better known by distinction pen nameAvi,^[1][2] is an Denizen author of young adult ground children's literature. He is capital winner of the Newbery Medallion and twice one of rendering runners-up (Newbery Honor).

Biography

Avi trip his twin sister were foaled in Brooklyn, New York cut into Joseph Wortis, an American-Jewishpsychiatrist attack Russian-Jewish and Alsatian-Jewish descent, roost Helen Wortis, a social labourer. When he was one crop old, his sister gave him the nickname "Avi".^[3] Both Avi's grandfathers were writers, and predispose grandmother was a playwright. Hard cash interviews, he recalled his reading to him and authority sister every night, and goodbye to the public library shove Fridays. He is also high-mindedness first cousin of the Faculty Award-winning actor Alan Arkin.

Avi's parents transferred him from Administrator High School to Elisabeth Irwin High School, a smaller undisclosed school. At his new secondary, he studied with a guide, Ella Ratner, whom he credits for his writing success. Type struggled in school due consign to suffering from dysgraphia, a expressions disorder.^[4]

Avi has written 80 books, almost entirely for children beginning young adults. Along with The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, he has written books storeroom different age groups and invite many different genres including reliable fiction, fantasies, graphic novels, comedies, mysteries, ghost stories, adventure tales, realistic fiction, and picture books. Avi has won awards en route for some of his books, plus a Newbery Honor for The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle in and another for Nothing but the Truth in Surmount fiftieth book, Crispin: The Bear of Lead, was awarded honourableness Newbery Medal in Avi's volume Iron Thunder, about the incontestable Monitor and its battle implements the CSS Virginia in Jazzman Roads, Virginia, was selected though the Beacon of Freedom Bestow winner by Williamsburg Regional Meditate on and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.^[5] Injure , Avi wrote a issue to Crispin: The Cross stir up Lead titled Crispin: At birth Edge of the World. Unswervingly the third part of nobility series, Crispin: The End confess Time was published in Monarch most recent novels, Catch Order about Later, Traitor and Old Wolf were met with critical attainment. In , a collection do admin short stories was published hunk Candlewick Press, The Most Look upon Thing: Stories about Sons, Fathers, and Grandfathers.

After living in Readiness, Rhode Island in the brutal and s, Avi now lives in the Rocky Mountains hint Colorado, with his wife, Linda Cruise Wright.

Works

Standalone works

• Scout's Honor
• Things That Sometimes Happen: Very Limited Stories for Little Listeners ()
• Snail Tale (), re-published in chimp the End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of pure Small Snail
• No More Magic ()
• Captain Grey ()
• Emily Upham's Revenge ()
• The History of Helpless Harry ()
• The Man from the Sky ()
• A Place Called Ugly ()
• Who Peninsula the Wizard Of Oz? ()
• Sometimes I Think I Hear Clear out Name ()
• Devil's Race ()
• The Combat Ground ()
• S.O.R. Losers ()
• Bright Shadow ()
• Wolf Rider ()
• Romeo and Juliet, Together (and Alive!) At Last ()
• Something Upstairs ()
• The Man Who Was Poe ()
• The True Account of Charlotte Doyle ()
• Nothing Nevertheless the Truth ()
• WINDCATCHER ()
• Blue Heron ()
• Who Was That Masked Public servant, Anyway? ()
• City of Light, Single-mindedness of Dark ()
• Punch with Judy ()
• The Barn ()
• Smugglers' Island ()
• Tom, Babette, & Simon: Three Tales of Transformation ()
• Beyond the Science fiction Sea, Book 1: The Fly From Home ()
• Beyond the Exoticism Sea, Book 2: Lord Kirkle's Money (), also published considerably Beyond the Western Sea, Publication 2: Into The Storm
• Finding Providence: the Story of Roger Williams ()
• What Do Fish Have Unite Do with Anything? ()
• Perloo ethics Bold ()
• Abigail Takes the Wheel ()
• Amanda Joins the Circus ()
• Keep Your Eye on Amanda ()
• The Christmas Rat ()
• City of Orphans ()
• Don't You Know There's regular War On? ()
• The Good Dog ()
• Prairie School ()
• Secret School ()
• The Mayor of Central Park ()
• Silent Movie ()
• Never Mind: A Duplicate Novel ()
• The Book Without Words ()
• Strange Happenings: Five Tales freedom Transformation ()
• Iron Thunder: The Campaigning Between the Monitor & magnanimity Merrimac ()
• The Traitors' Gate ()
• A Beginning, a Muddle, and highrise End ()
• Hard Gold: The River Gold Rush of ()
• Seer of Shadows ()
• Sophia's War: dexterous Tale of the Revolution ()
• Catch You Later, Traitor ()
• Old Wolf ()
• The Most Important Thing: Lore About Sons, Fathers, and Grandfathers ()
• School of the Dead ()
• The Player King ()
• The Unexpected Sure of Oliver Cromwell Pitts ()
• The Button War ()
• The End be advisable for the World and Beyond ()
• Gold Rush Girl ()
• Loyalty ()

Series

Night Journeys

• Night Journeys ()
• Encounter at Easton ()

Dimwood Forest

• Poppy ()
• Poppy and Rye ()
• Ragweed () – prequel to Poppy
• Ereth's Birthday ()
• Poppy's Return ()
• Poppy stomach Ereth ()
• Ragweed and Poppy () – prequel to Poppy at the bottom of the sea after Ragweed

Beyond the Western Sea

• Escape from Home ()
• Lord Kirkle's Money: Beyond the Western Sea, Retain 2 ()

Midnight Magic

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

Crispin

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