Laura Amy Schlitz Books
Splendors and glooms
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are...
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Good Masters Sweet Ladies
A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.
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The Bearskinner
"Laura Amy Schlitz is one of the finest storytellers being published today, and she does not disappoint with this magnificent retelling." – Wall Street JournalMan or bear? When a person gives...
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A Drowned Maiden's Hair
"People throw the word 'classic' about a lot, but A Drowned Maiden's Hair genuinely deserves to become one." — Wall Street JournalMaud Flynn is known at the orphanage for her impertinence, so...
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Princess Cora and the Crocodile
By Laura Amy Schlitz Illustrated By Brian Floca
A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Medalist join forces to give an overscheduled princess a day off — and a deliciously wicked crocodile a day on.Princess Cora is sick of boring lessons. She&...
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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
By Laura Amy Schlitz Illustrated By Robert Byrd
Newbery Medal Winner! Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters.Maidens, monks, and millers’ sons &m...
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The Night Fairy
By Laura Amy Schlitz Illustrated By Angela Barrett
From 2008 Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz comes an exhilarating adventure — and a thoroughly original fairy who is a true force of nature. What would happen to a fairy if she lost her...
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The Hero Schliemann
By Laura Amy Schlitz Illustrated By Robert Byrd
"Anyone with an interest in archaeology or in liars and braggarts will be drawn in by this slim biography of the hyper-imaginative Schliemann." — Bulletin of the Center for Children&rsqu...
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A Drowned Maiden's Hair
"People throw the word 'classic' about a lot, but A Drowned Maiden's Hair genuinely deserves to become one." — Wall Street JournalMaud Flynn is known at the orphanage for her impertinence, so...
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