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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    July 2007
  • Latest Book:
    March 2021
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Book List in Order: 10 titles



  • 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 -- in these pages, readers will meet them all. There's Hugo, the lord's nephew,...



  • "Schlitz narrates with clarity, grace, and sensitivity. . . . A provocative edition that should set older children thinking about the meaning of endurance and heroism." --  Horn Book (starred review)

    Man or bear? When a person gives up hope...



  • Maud Flynn is known at the orphanage for her impertinence. So when the charming Miss Hyacinth chooses her to take home, the girl is pleased but baffled, until she learns of her new role: helping to stage elaborate séances for bereaved patrons. As Ma...



  • From 2008 Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz comes an exhilarating new adventure -- and a thoroughly original fairy who is a true force of nature. What would happen to a fairy if she lost her wings and could no longer fly? Flory, a young night f...



  • THE MASTER PUPPETEER Gaspare Grisini is so expert at manipulating his stringed puppets that they appear alive. Clara Wintermute, the only child of a wealthy doctor, is spellbound by Grisini's act and invites him to entertain at her home. Seeing hi...





  • Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force. Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life a...



  • 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’s sick of running in circles around the dungeon gy...







  • The Newbery Medalâ€"winning author of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! gives readers a virtuoso performance in verse in this profoundly original epic pitched just right for fans of poetry, history, mythology, and fantasy. Welcome to ancient Greece as only...


Award-Winning Books by Laura Amy Schlitz

A Drowned Maiden's Hair
2006 Cybils -- Middle Grade Fiction
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
2007 Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) -- Gold
2008 Newbery Medal -- Children's
The Hired Girl
2015 National Jewish Book Award -- Young Adult
2016 Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction -- Historical Fiction
2016 Sydney Taylor Book Award -- Teen


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Laura Amy Schlitz has published 10 books.

Laura Amy Schlitz does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Amber and Clay, was published in March 2021.

The first book by Laura Amy Schlitz, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!, was published in July 2007.

No. Laura Amy Schlitz does not write books in series.