Laura Amy Schlitz
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| Born | Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| Occupation | Writer, and Lower School Librarian at Park School |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Goucher College |
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| Notable awards |
Cybils Award Newbery Medal Newbery Honor Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction National Jewish Book Award 2016 The Hired Girl |
Cybils Award
2006 A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama
Newbery Medal
2008 Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
Newbery Honor
2013 Splendors and Glooms
Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
2016 The Hired Girl
National Jewish Book Award
2016 The Hired Girl
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, and the 2013 Newbery Honor for her children's book, Splendors and Glooms. 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 (2007), The Night Fairy (2010), and Princess Cora and the Crocodile (2017).
Schlitz attended Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, and graduated in 1977.
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village comprises more than twenty one-person plays and two two-person plays. The 10- to 15-year-old characters all live in or near a 13th-century English manor.
The monologues were written for the 5th Grade curriculum at The Park School during an F. Parvin Sharpless Faculty and Curricular Advancement Program (FACA) at the school.
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