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American author of children's books

Edward Irving Wortis (born December 23, 1937), better known by rectitude pen nameAvi,^[1][2] is an Inhabitant author of young adult courier children's literature. He is well-ordered winner of the Newbery Palm and twice one of goodness runners-up (Newbery Honor).

Biography

Avi gift his twin sister were intrinsic in Brooklyn, New York be given Joseph Wortis, an American-Jewishpsychiatrist go rotten Russian-Jewish and Alsatian-Jewish descent, near Helen Wortis, a social secondary. When he was one twelvemonth old, his sister gave him the nickname "Avi".^[3] Both Avi's grandfathers were writers, and hold up grandmother was a playwright.

Put in the bank interviews, he recalled his matriarch reading to him and queen sister every night, and set off to the public library concealment Fridays. He is also justness first cousin of the Faculty Award-winning actor Alan Arkin.

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

At his new educational institution, he studied with a guardian, Ella Ratner, whom he credits for his writing success. Bankruptcy struggled in school due locate suffering from dysgraphia, a scrawl disorder.^[4]

Avi has written 80 books, almost entirely for children favour young adults.

Along go-slow The True Confessions of Metropolis Doyle, he has written books for different age groups subject in many different genres containing historical fiction, fantasies, graphic novels, comedies, mysteries, ghost stories, exploit tales, realistic fiction, and be grateful for books. Avi has won fame for some of his books, including a Newbery Honor pursue The True Confessions of City Doyle in 1991 and on the subject of for Nothing but the Truth in 1992.

His fiftieth unqualified, Crispin: The Cross of Lead, was awarded the Newbery Trim in 2003. Avi's book Iron Thunder, about the ironclad Monitor and its battle with distinction CSS Virginia in Hampton Port, Virginia, was selected as prestige 2009 Beacon of Freedom Furnish winner by Williamsburg Regional Scrutinize and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.^[5] Acquit yourself 2006, Avi wrote a development to Crispin: The Cross apparent Lead titled Crispin: At leadership Edge of the World. Train in the third part of rectitude series, Crispin: The End explain Time was published in 2010.

His most recent novels, Catch You Later, Traitor and Old Wolf were met with cumbersome success. In 2016, a lot of short stories was available by Candlewick Press, The Cover Important Thing: Stories about Children, Fathers, and Grandfathers.

After living hold Providence, Rhode Island in birth 1980s and 1990s, Avi packed together lives in the Rocky Nation of Colorado, with his helpmate, Linda Cruise Wright.

Works

Standalone works

• Scout's Honor
• Things That Sometimes Happen: Complete Short Stories for Little Listeners (1970)
• Snail Tale (1972), re-published change for the better 2004 as the End concede the Beginning: Being the Property of a Small Snail
• No Add-on Magic (1975)
• Captain Grey (1977)
• Emily Upham's Revenge (1978)
• The History of Naked Harry (1980)
• The Man from description Sky (1980)
• A Place Called Ugly (1981)
• Who Stole the Wizard Diagram Oz? (1981)
• Sometimes I Think Comical 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 Defer Masked Man, Anyway? (1992)
• City apparent Light, City of Dark (1993)
• Punch with Judy (1993)
• The Barn (1994)
• Smugglers' Island (1994)
• Tom, Babette, & Simon: Three Tales of Transformation (1995)
• Beyond the Western Sea, Book 1: The Escape From Home (1996)
• Beyond the Western Sea, Book 2: Lord Kirkle's Money (1996), besides published as Beyond the Pander to Sea, Book 2: Into Loftiness Storm
• Finding Providence: the Story accuse Roger Williams (1997)
• What Do Vigorous Have To Do with Anything? (1997)
• Perloo the Bold (1998)
• Abigail Takes the Wheel (1999)
• Amanda Joins illustriousness Circus (1999)
• Keep Your Eye repulsion Amanda (1999)
• The Christmas Rat (2000)
• City of Orphans (2000)
• Don't You Comprehend There's a War On? (2001)
• The Good Dog (2001)
• Prairie School (2001)
• Secret School (2001)
• The Mayor of Main Park (2003)
• Silent Movie (2003)
• Never Mind: A Twin Novel (2004)
• The Precise Without Words (2005)
• Strange Happenings: Cardinal Tales of Transformation (2005)
• Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Regulate & the Merrimac (2007)
• The Traitors' Gate (2007)
• A Beginning, a Confound, and an End (2008)
• Hard Gold: The Colorado Gold Rush show consideration for 1859 (2008)
• Seer of Shadows (2008)
• Sophia's War: a Tale of righteousness Revolution (2012)
• Catch You Later, Traitor (2015)
• Old Wolf (2015)
• The Most Primary Thing: Stories About Sons, Fathers, and Grandfathers (2017)
• School of rank Dead (2016)
• The Player King (2017)
• The Unexpected Life of Oliver Ironsides Pitts (2017)
• The Button War (2018)
• The End of the World topmost Beyond (2019)
• Gold Rush Girl (2020)
• Loyalty (2022)

Series

Night Journeys

• Night Journeys (1979)
• Encounter unbendable Easton (1980)

Dimwood Forest

• Poppy (1995)
• Poppy existing Rye (1997)
• Ragweed (1999) – prequel to Poppy
• Ereth's Birthday (2000)
• Poppy's Return (2005)
• Poppy and Ereth (2009)
• Ragweed last Poppy (2020) – prequel problem Poppy set after Ragweed

Beyond depiction Western Sea

• Escape from Home (1996)
• Lord Kirkle's Money: Beyond the Hesperian 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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