Rita Ritchie

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Rita Ritchie


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Wisconsin, The United States
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Rita Ritchie was born, raised and educated in the state of Wisconsin. She began writing in 1st grade. By the time she was in high school, she was doing radio scripts for a local children’s program and producing feature articles for a weekly newspaper. Always interested in people and places, Mrs. Ritchie later spent time vacationing in Mexico and bicycling in Europe. Her curiosity about other places and times led her to study anthropology, and eventually to investigate the “barbarians” repeatedly mentioned in European history. She found the details of Genghis Khan’s empire so exciting that she felt she had to write about it. The result was her first book The Year of the Horse in 1957, and later, The Golden Hawks of Genghis Khan and Secret Be ...more

Average rating: 4.29 · 266 ratings · 43 reviews · 30 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Golden Hawks of Genghis...

4.39 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1958 — 13 editions
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The Silver Seven

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions
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Bugs Bunny: The Last Crusader

3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions
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Bicycles North!: A Mystery ...

4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings2 editions
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Ice Falcon

4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings4 editions
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The Wonder of Raccoons

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The Year of the Horse

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1957 — 3 editions
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Mountain Gorillas in Danger

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Pirates of Samarkand

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1967 — 5 editions
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Secret Beyond the Mountains

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings4 editions
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