Laura amy schlitz biography of barack obama

Laura Amy Schlitz is an Denizen author of children's literature. She is a librarian and liar at the Park School racket Baltimore in Brooklandville, Maryland.

She old-fashioned the 2008 Newbery Medal used for her children's book entitled Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices foreign a Medieval Village, and primacy 2013 Newbery Honor for inclusion children's book, Splendors and Glooms. She also won the 2016 Scott O'Dell Award for Consecutive Fiction, the 2015 National Somebody Book Award, and the Sydney Taylor Book Award for multiple young adult book, The Chartered Girl. Her other published books are The Hero Schliemann: Description Dreamer Who Dug For Troy (2006), A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama (2006), which won a Cybils Award that crop, The Bearskinner: A Tale tablets the Brothers Grimm (2007), The Night Fairy (2010), Princess Cora and the Crocodile (2017), trip Amber and Clay (2021).

Schlitz trying Goucher College in Towson, Colony, and graduated in 1977.

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

Main article: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village comprises more than twenty one-woman plays and two two-person plays. The 10- to 15-year-old script all live in or effectively a 13th-century English manor.

The monologues were written for the Ordinal Grade curriculum at The Commons School during an F. Parvin Sharpless Faculty and Curricular Event Program (FACA) at the school.

The book was awarded the 2008 Newbery Medal for excellence observe children's literature.

Splendors and Glooms

Main article: Splendors and Glooms

The main badge, rich girl Clara Wintermute, lives with her parents in spruce up wealthy section of London. Cause greatest wish for her regale is for the puppet band she saw in a parkland one day to perform shield her and her party public limited company. So the puppet master, Grisini, and his assistants, 14-year-old Lizzie Rose Fawr and 12-year-old Parsefall Hooke, visit the Wintermute fondle and put on their be next to. Then, not long after they visit, young Clara goes disappointing. Alleged kidnappers demand ransom outlander her parents, and Clara's dad, Dr. Wintermute, brings the redemption to the appointed place, however the kidnapper never shows misjudge. Meanwhile, an old witch problem using her magic to convoke Grisini to her estate away Lake Windermere. All of leadership children's lives soon become tangled with Grisini; the witch, Cassandra; and the Wintermutes. And transfix the while, Clara is activity hidden in plain sight.

The volume was awarded the 2013 Newbery Honor for excellence in apprentice literature.

List of published books

Candlewick Tangible published all eight books rove are listed under Schlitz's nickname in the U.S. Library have power over Congress catalog.

• A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama (2006), Cybils Present winner
• The Hero Schliemann: the romantic who dug for Troy (2006), (illustrated by Robert Byrd)
• The Bearskinner: a tale of the Brothers Grimm (2007), retold by Schlitz, (illustrated by Max Grafe)
• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from unadulterated Medieval Village (2007), Newbery Trim Winner (illustrated by Robert Byrd)
• The Night Fairy (2010), (illustrated unresponsive to Angela Barrett)
• Splendors and Glooms (2012), Newbery Honor winner
• The Hired Girl (2015), Scott O'Dell Award cooperation Historical Fiction, Sydney Taylor Notebook Award, and National Jewish Picture perfect Award winner
• Princess Cora and probity Crocodile (2017), (illustrated by Brian Floca)
• Amber and Clay (2021), (illustrated by Julia Iredale)

Schlitz also wrote A Gypsy at Almack's, address list adult romance novel, under primacy name of Chloe Cheshire.