Avi

Edward Irving Wortis (born December 23, 1937), better known by the pen name Avi, is an American author of young adult and children’s literature. He is a winner of the Newbery Medal and twice one of the runners-up (Newbery Honor).

Books in order of publication:

Standalone works

  • Scout’s Honor
  • Things That Sometimes Happen: Very Short Stories for Little Listeners (1970)
  • Snail Tale (1972), re-published in 2004 as the End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail
  • No More Magic (1975)
  • Captain Grey (1977)
  • Emily Upham’s Revenge (1978)
  • The History of Helpless Harry (1980)
  • The Man from the Sky (1980)
  • A Place Called Ugly (1981)
  • Who Stole the Wizard Of Oz? (1981)
  • Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name (1982)
  • Devil’s Race (1984)
  • Fighting Ground (1984)
  • S.O.R. Losers (1984)
  • Bright Shadow (1985)
  • Wolf Rider (1986)
  • Romeo and Juliet, Together (and Alive!) At Last (1987)
  • Something Upstairs (1988)
  • The Man Who Was Poe (1989)
  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (1990)
  • Nothing But the Truth (1991)
  • Windcatcher (1991)
  • Blue Heron (1992)
  • Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway? (1992)
  • City of Light, City of Dark (1993)
  • Punch with Judy (1993)
  • The Barn (1994)
  • Smugglers’ Island (1994)
  • Tom, Babette, & Simon: Three Tales of Transformation (1995)
  • Beyond the Western Sea, Book 1: The Escape From Home (1996)
  • Beyond the Western Sea, Book 2: Lord Kirkle’s Money (1996), also published as Beyond the Western Sea, Book 2: Into The Storm
  • Finding Providence: the Story of Roger Williams (1997)
  • What Do Fish Have To Do with Anything? (1997)
  • Perloo the Bold (1998)
  • Abigail Takes the Wheel (1999)
  • Amanda Joins the Circus (1999)
  • Keep Your Eye on Amanda (1999)
  • The Christmas Rat (2000)
  • City of Orphans (2000)
  • Don’t You Know There’s a War On? (2001)
  • The Good Dog (2001)
  • Prairie School (2001)
  • Secret School (2001)
  • The Mayor of Central Park (2003)
  • Silent Movie (2003)
  • Never Mind: A Twin Novel (2004)
  • The Book Without Words (2005)
  • Strange Happenings: Five Tales of Transformation (2005)
  • Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor & the Merrimac (2007)
  • The Traitors’ Gate (2007)
  • A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End (2008)
  • Hard Gold: The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859 (2008)
  • Seer of Shadows (2008)
  • Sophia’s War: a Tale of the Revolution (2012)
  • Catch You Later, Traitor (2015)
  • Old Wolf (2015)
  • The Most Important Thing: Stories About Sons, Fathers, and Grandfathers (2017)
  • School of the Dead (2016)
  • The Player King (2017)
  • The Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts (2017)
  • The Button War (2018)
  • The End of the World and Beyond (2019)
  • Loyalty (2022)

Series

Night Journeys

  • Night Journeys (1979)
  • Encounter at Easton (1980)

Dimwood Forest

  • Poppy (1995)
  • Poppy and Rye (1997)
  • Ragweed (1999) – prequel to Poppy
  • Ereth’s Birthday (2000)
  • Poppy’s Return (2005)
  • Poppy and Ereth (2009)
  • Ragweed and Poppy (2020)

Beyond the Western Sea

  • Escape from Home (1996)
  • Lord Kirkle’s Money: Beyond the Western Sea, Book 2 (1996)

Midnight Magic

  • Midnight Magic (1999)
  • Murder at Midnight (2009) – prequel to Midnight Magic
  • City of Magic (2022)

Crispin

  • Crispin: the Cross of Lead (2002)
  • Crispin at the Edge of the World (2006)
  • Crispin: the End of Time (2010)
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