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Cynthia DeFelice


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Cynthia DeFelice is the author of many bestselling titles for young readers, including the novels Wild Life, The Ghost of Cutler Creek, Signal, and The Missing Manatee, as well as the picture books, One Potato, Two Potato, and Casey in the Bath. Her books have been nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award and listed as American Library Association Notable Children's Books and Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, among numerous other honors.  Cynthia was born in Philadelphia in 1951. As a child, she was always reading. Summer vacations began with a trip to the bookstore, where she and her sister and brothers were allowed to pick out books for their summer reading.
 

Genres: Children's Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
 
Novels
   The Strange Night Writing of Jessamine Colter (1988)
   The Dancing Skeleton (1989)
   Weasel (1990)
   Devil's Bridge (1992)
   The Light on Hogback Hill (1993)
   Lostman's River (1994)
   The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker (1996)
   Nowhere to Call Home (1999)
   Death at Devil's Bridge (2000)
   Cold Feet (2000)
   Under the Same Sky (2003)
   The Missing Manatee (2005)
   Bringing Ezra Back (2006)
   Signal (2009)
   Wild Life (2011)
   Fort (2015)
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