Cynthia Carter DeFelice (born 1951) is an American

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. She has written 16 novels and 12 picture books for young readers. The intended audience for her novels is children of reading ages nine to twelve.

Life and career

Carter was born in 1951 in

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. Her father was a psychiatrist, and her mother was an English teacher, who stopped working to raise Cynthia and her siblings. DeFelice credits her mother for sparking her interest in books. Among her three siblings is former

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. She began writing children's books in 1987. She lives in

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Bibliography

Children's novels

*''The Strange Night Writing of Jessamine Colter'', Atheneum (1988), *''Weasel'', Atheneum (1990), (1993

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winner) *''Devil’s Bridge'',

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(1992), *''The Light on Hogback Hill'' Atheneum (1993), *''Lostman’s River'', Atheneum (1994), *''The Ghost of Poplar Point'', Farrar Straus (1997), *''The Ghost of Fossil Glen'', Farrar Straus (1998), *''Nowhere to Call Home'' Farrar Straus (1999), *''Death at Devil’s Bridge'' Farrar Straus (2000), *''The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs'', Farrar Straus (2001) *''The Ghost of Cutler Creek'', Farrar Straus (2004), *''Under the Same Sky'', Farrar Straus (2005), *''Missing Manatee'', Farrar Straus (2005), (nominated for a 2006 Edgar Award by the

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) *''Bringing Ezra Back'', Farrar Straus (2006) (sequel to ''Weasel'') *''

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'', Farrar Straus (2009), *''Wild Life'', Farrar Straus (2011) *''Fort'', Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2015),

Selected children's picture books

* ''Dancing Skeleton'', illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker (

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, 1989), – named a Best Book of the Year by the

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* ''Clever Crow'', illus. S. D. Schindler (Atheneum, 1998), * ''Cold Feet'', illus. Robert Andrew Parker ( DK Books for Children, 2000), . 2001

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for best picture book * Casey in the Bath, illus. Farrar Straus Giroux (Macmillan, 1998)

References

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