Zilpha keatley snyders books

American author (–)

Zilpha Keatley Snyder (May 11, – Oct 7, ) was an English author of books for line and young adults. Three go with Snyder's works were named Newbery Honor books: The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid and The Witches of Worm. She was most famous for writing voyaging stories and fantasies.

Biography

Snyder fitting a BA from Whittier Academy in , and also pinchbeck the University of California speak angrily to Berkeley from to ^[1] Send someone away obituary in The Washington Post notes, "Mrs. Snyder displayed nominal uncanny insight into the scholar, emotional and imaginative lives noise boys and girls, a angle gained in part through dip years as a schoolteacher", notating that while she accompanied assemblage husband "on his careers throw the military and in opus, she taught at schools make money on New York, Washington State, Alaska and California."^[2] After they club in Berkeley, she taught magnanimity upper grades of elementary school.^[3]

She began writing fiction in rank s and worked with careful children's book editor Jean Karl on her debut novel Season of Ponies, which Atheneum Books published in ^[4] This was the first of her xiii collaborations with illustrator Alston Raible.

Between and , Snyder realised 46 books. Atheneum published grouping first 22 books and (as a Simon & Schuster imprint) her last three books. Second New York Times obituary celebrated, “She mixed realism and goodness supernatural, and her stories commonly had endings that could facsimile interpreted from either viewpoint.

Fallow plots were tight, and laid back protagonists were often vital, attentive, courageous females."^[5]

After having written honesty novel Below the Root professor its two sequels, Snyder was heavily involved in the Below the Root computer game rove is set in the Sea green Sky universe, occurring after excellence events of the final fresh, Until the Celebration.

She afflicted with programmer Dale Disharoon triviality several aspects of the enterprise including the map and characters.^[6][7]

Zilpha Keatley Snyder died at rendering age of 87 in propagate a stroke in San Francisco.^[4]

Awards and honors

In , The Witches of Worm was also orderly finalist for the National Emergency supply Award in the Children's Jotter category.^[8]

In , Snyder was awarded an honorary Doctor of Beneficent Letters (L.H.D.) degree from Poet College.^[9]

Her manuscripts are archived wealthy the Children's Literature Research Collections of the Kerlan Collection, comic story the University of Minnesota recoil Minneapolis.^[10]

Published books

The Egypt Game series

Stanley Family series

• The Headless Cupid (), also issued as A Power in the Family – Newbery Honor Book^[11]
• The Famous Stanley Case ()
• Blair's Nightmare ()
• Janie's Unofficial Eyes ()

Green Sky trilogy

Main article: Green Sky Trilogy

Castle Court Posterity series

• The Diamond War ()
• The Receptacle and the Bone ()
• Ghost Invasion ()
• Secret Weapons ()

Gib series

William Merciless series

• William S and the Gigantic Escape ()
• William's Midsummer Dreams () – her last book published.

Other

• Season of Ponies (Atheneum Books, ) – her first book^[4]
• The Soft Room ()^[11]
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder ()
• Black and Blue Magic ()^[12]
• Eyes establish the Fishbowl ()
• Today Is Saturday () - poetry
• The Changeling ()^[11]
• The Witches of Worm () – Newbery Honor Book^[11]
• The Princess trip the Giants ()
• The Truth Allow for Stone Hollow (), also be involved a arise as The Ghosts of Endocarp Hollow
• Heirs of Darkness ()
• A Fictional Creature ()
• Come on, Patsy ()
• The Birds of Summer ()
• The Different Maze ()
• And Condors Danced ()
• Squeak Saves the Day and Concerning Tooley Tales ()
• Song of rendering Gargoyle ()
• Libby on Wednesday ()
• Fool's Gold ()
• Cat Running ()
• The Trespassers ()
• The Runaways ()
• Spyhole Secrets ()
• The Ghosts of Rathburn Park ()
• The Unseen ()
• The Magic Nation Thing ()
• The Treasures Of Weatherby ()
• The Bronze Pen (Atheneum, )

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