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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: 3.89 · 45,870 ratings · 7,428 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Hired Girl 3.98 avg rating — 14,033 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 — 9,711 ratings — published 2012 — 34 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 — 8,855 ratings — published 2007 — 25 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 — 4,790 ratings — published 2006 — 21 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 3.80 avg rating — 3,776 ratings — published 2010 — 18 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) 4.14 avg rating — 1,845 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Princess Cora and the Crocodile by Laura Amy Schlitz, Brian Floca (Illustrator) 4.04 avg rating — 1,882 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	The Winter of the Dollhouse 4.41 avg rating — 478 ratings — published 2025 — 4 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 (Adaptor), Max Grafe (Illustrator), Jacob Grimm 4.20 avg rating — 416 ratings — published 2006 — 6 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) 3.90 avg rating — 157 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

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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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Wonder by R.J. Palacio

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The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

20 votes 19.0%

Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead

8 votes 7.6%

Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz

6 votes 5.7%

Wonder (write-in)

5 votes 4.8%

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

4 votes 3.8%

Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin

4 votes 3.8%

Splendors & Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz

4 votes 3.8%

Summer of the Gypsy Moths by Sara Pennypacker

3 votes 2.9%

The Mighty Miss Malone (write-in)

2 votes 1.9%

Bomb (write-in)

2 votes 1.9%

The Lions of Little Rock

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Twelve Kinds of Ice

2 votes 1.9%

The One and Only Ivan (write-in)

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The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (write-in)

2 votes 1.9%

Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage

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The mighty miss Malone (write-in)

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13... (write-in)

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wonder (write-in)

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Splendor and Glooms (write-in)

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Three Times Lucky (write-in)

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Foster Fox A 10,000 Lakes Tale by William D. Writer

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alphabet living (write-in)

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Splendors and GLooms (write-in)

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The Humming Room by Ellen Potter

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The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech

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Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman

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the one and only Ivan

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Foster Fox, A 10,000 Lakes Tale (write-in)

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