Laura Amy Schlitz: 5 books

Book cover of The Hired Girl
by Laura Amy Schlitz
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015

Winner of the 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye...
Book cover of The Hero Schliemann

The Hero Schliemann

The Dreamer Who Dug for Troy

by Laura Amy Schlitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013

"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’s Books (starred review) From Newbery Medal-winning author Laura Amy Schlitz comes an engaging...
Book cover of Splendors and Glooms
by Laura Amy Schlitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012

Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her sorcery to a Victorian gothic thriller — an enthralling, darkly comic tale that would do Dickens proud. The master puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, is so expert at manipulating his stringed puppets that they appear alive. Clara Wintermute, the only...
Book cover of The Night Fairy
by Laura Amy Schlitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011

What would happen to a fairy if she lost her wings and could no longer fly? Flory, a young night fairy no taller than an acorn and still becoming accustomed to her wings wings as beautiful as those of a luna moth is about to find out. What she discovers is that the world is very big and very dangerous....
Book cover of A Drowned Maiden's Hair
by Laura Amy Schlitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010

"People throw the word 'classic' about a lot, but A Drowned Maiden's Hair genuinely deserves to become one." — Wall Street Journal Maud Flynn is known at the orphanage for her impertinence, so when the charming Miss Hyacinth and her sister choose Maud to take home with them, the...
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