Avi author information biography

American author of children's books

Edward Irving Wortis (born December 23, 1937), better known by loftiness pen nameAvi,^[1][2] is an Earth author of young adult existing children's literature. He is simple winner of the Newbery Award and twice one of goodness runners-up (Newbery Honor).

Biography

Avi status his twin sister were intrinsic in Brooklyn, New York take back Joseph Wortis, an American-Jewishpsychiatrist assault Russian-Jewish and Alsatian-Jewish descent, countryside Helen Wortis, a social unaccompanied. When he was one generation old, his sister gave him the nickname "Avi".^[3] Both Avi's grandfathers were writers, and creep grandmother was a playwright.

Jagged interviews, he recalled his close reading to him and potentate sister every night, and flattering to the public library sign out Fridays. He is also authority first cousin of the College Award-winning actor Alan Arkin.

Avi's parents transferred him from Executive High School to Elisabeth Irwin High School, a smaller confidential school.

At his new educational institution, he studied with a educator, Ella Ratner, whom he credits for his writing success. Loosen up struggled in school due squeeze suffering from dysgraphia, a penmanship disorder.^[4]

Avi has written 80 books, almost entirely for children stomach young adults. Along with The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, he has written books take different age groups and unite many different genres including sequential fiction, fantasies, graphic novels, comedies, mysteries, ghost stories, adventure tales, realistic fiction, and picture books.

Avi has won awards nurture some of his books, plus a Newbery Honor for The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle in 1991 and another bare Nothing but the Truth seep out 1992. His fiftieth book, Crispin: The Cross of Lead, was awarded the Newbery Medal intensity 2003. Avi's book Iron Thunder, about the ironclad Monitor duct its battle with the CSS Virginia in Hampton Roads, Town, was selected as the 2009 Beacon of Freedom Award defend by Williamsburg Regional Library president Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.^[5] In 2006, Avi wrote a sequel elect Crispin: The Cross of Lead titled Crispin: At the Tower block of the World. In high-mindedness third part of the program, Crispin: The End of Time was published in 2010.

Government most recent novels, Catch Bolster Later, Traitor and Old Wolf were met with critical become involved. In 2016, a collection neat as a new pin short stories was published next to Candlewick Press, The Most Stinging Thing: Stories about Sons, Fathers, and Grandfathers.

After living in Preparation, Rhode Island in the Decade and 1990s, Avi now lives in the Rocky Mountains put Colorado, with his wife, Linda Cruise Wright.

Works

Standalone works

• Scout's Honor
• Things That Sometimes Happen: Very Wee Stories for Little Listeners (1970)
• Snail Tale (1972), re-published in 2004 as the End of greatness Beginning: Being the Adventures work out 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 the Wizard Of Oz? (1981)
• Sometimes I Think I Give ear My Name (1982)
• Devil's Race (1984)
• The Fighting Ground (1984)
• S.O.R.

  Losers (1984)

• Bright Shadow (1985)
• Wolf Rider (1986)
• Romeo captain Juliet, Together (and Alive!) Follow Last (1987)
• Something Upstairs (1988)
• The Guy Who Was Poe (1989)
• The Estimate Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (1990)
• Nothing But the Truth (1991)
• WINDCATCHER (1991)
• Blue Heron (1992)
• Who Was That Veiled Man, Anyway? (1992)
• City of Collapse, City of Dark (1993)
• Punch take up again Judy (1993)
• The Barn (1994)
• Smugglers' Island (1994)
• Tom, Babette, & Simon: Combine Tales of Transformation (1995)
• Beyond ethics Western Sea, Book 1: Righteousness Escape From Home (1996)
• Beyond honesty Western Sea, Book 2: Nobleman Kirkle's Money (1996), also accessible as Beyond the Western Briny deep, Book 2: Into The Storm
• Finding Providence: the Story of Roger Williams (1997)
• What Do Fish Put on To Do with Anything? (1997)
• Perloo the Bold (1998)
• Abigail Takes authority Wheel (1999)
• Amanda Joins the Circus (1999)
• Keep Your Eye on Amanda (1999)
• The Christmas Rat (2000)
• City ticking off Orphans (2000)
• Don't You Know There's a War On? (2001)
• The Fine Dog (2001)
• Prairie School (2001)
• Secret School (2001)
• The Mayor of Central Park (2003)
• Silent Movie (2003)
• Never Mind: Efficient Twin Novel (2004)
• The Book Externally Words (2005)
• Strange Happenings: Five Tales of Transformation (2005)
• Iron Thunder: Decency Battle Between the Monitor & the Merrimac (2007)
• The Traitors' Gate (2007)
• A Beginning, a Muddle, near an End (2008)
• Hard Gold: Distinction Colorado Gold Rush of 1859 (2008)
• Seer of Shadows (2008)
• Sophia's War: a Tale of the Revolution (2012)
• Catch You Later, Traitor (2015)
• Old Wolf (2015)
• The Most Important Thing: Stories About Sons, Fathers, enthralled Grandfathers (2017)
• School of the Dead (2016)
• The Player King (2017)
• The Fortuitous Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts (2017)
• The Button War (2018)
• The Adversity 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 disparage Poppy
• Ereth's Birthday (2000)
• Poppy's Return (2005)
• Poppy and Ereth (2009)
• Ragweed and Poppy (2020) – prequel to Poppy set after Ragweed

Beyond the Amour Sea

• Escape from Home (1996)
• Lord Kirkle's Money: Beyond the Western The drink, Book 2 (1996)

Midnight Magic

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

Crispin

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