City of Orphans is now in paperback! While I have read a handful of books by the prolific, Newbery Award winning author Avi, his most recent book, City of Orphans, is the first I have reviewed here! In 1991 Avi won the Newbery Honor for his book The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, a unique work of historical fiction in which the twelve year old Charlotte goes from a proper young girl to
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Crispin: The Cross of Lead is the Newbery award winning book from the prolific (and multi-award winning) author Avi. I can't think of an author who has contributed more - much needed - historical fiction (compelling, exciting and suspenseful, at that) to the shelves of the kid's section. I have read a handful of his books (including City of Orphans) well before I started a pointed course of
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While I have read a handful of books by the prolific, Newbery Award winning author Avi, his most recent book, City of Orphans, is the first I have reviewed here! In 1991 Avi won the Newbery Honor for his book The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, a unique work of historical fiction in which the twelve year old Charlotte goes from a proper young girl to a mutinous pirate accused of murder as