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Laura Amy Schlitz

Born

in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States

May 28, 1955

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Children's Books

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Laura Amy Schlitz is an American author of children's literature. She is a librarian and storyteller at The Park School in Brooklandville, Maryland.

She received the 2008 Newbery Medal for her children's book entitled Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village,[1] and the 2013 Newbery Honor for her children's book, Splendors and Glooms.[2] She also won the 2016 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, the 2016 National Jewish Book Award, and the Sydney Taylor Book Award for her young adult book, The Hired Girl. Her other published books are The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug For Troy (2006), A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama (2006), which won a Cybils Award that year, The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm ( ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 43,857 ratings · 7,091 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Hired Girl 3.98 avg rating — 13,378 ratings — published 2015 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Splendors and Glooms 3.83 avg rating — 9,606 ratings — published 2012 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz, Robert Byrd (Illustrator) 3.67 avg rating — 8,592 ratings — published 2007 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Drowned Maiden's Hair 3.98 avg rating — 4,680 ratings — published 2006 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night Fairy 3.79 avg rating — 3,658 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Princess Cora and the Crocodile by Laura Amy Schlitz, Brian Floca (Illustrator) 4.04 avg rating — 1,806 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amber and Clay by Laura Amy Schlitz, Julia Iredale (Illustrator) 4.12 avg rating — 1,661 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm by Laura Amy Schlitz, Max Grafe (Illustrator) 4.21 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug For Troy by Laura Amy Schlitz, Robert Byrd (Illustrator) 3.89 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Splendors and Glooms (Free Preview of Chapters 1-3) 4.02 avg rating — 44 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz

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“But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz, The Hired Girl

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“You know how it is. Someone pretends to love you, and you give too much away.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz, Splendors and Glooms

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Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz

25 votes 40.3%

The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech

17 votes 27.4%

Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin

8 votes 12.9%

See You at Harry's by Jo Knowles

6 votes 9.7%

The Great Unexpected (write-in)

3 votes 4.8%

Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years by Linda Barrett Osborne

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See You at Harry's (write-in)

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Bomb- The race... (write-in)

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