http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688093892/?tag=2022091-20
1991
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688117937/?tag=2022091-20
1993
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0531068692/?tag=2022091-20
1994
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0531068773/?tag=2022091-20
1995
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688143741/?tag=2022091-20
1996
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/068815381X/?tag=2022091-20
1998
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882413466/?tag=2022091-20
1998
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0590519077/?tag=2022091-20
1999
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0531302415/?tag=2022091-20
2000
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060011556/?tag=2022091-20
2002
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060506598/?tag=2022091-20
2003
Barbara Porte was born on May 18, 1943, in New York, United States, into the family of Sol and Dora Porte. Porte and her two sisters grew up telling stories to one another. Every night their mother read aloud to them, even after they could read on their own.
In 1965 Barbara received Bachelor of Science in Agriculture at Michigan State University. After that she earned Master of Science in Library Science at Palmer Graduate Library School in 1969.
Before turning to writing full time, Barbara Ann Porte was a storyteller and a librarian, serving as chief of Children's Services Division, in the Nassau Library System in New York for twelve years. Then she decided to quit the job and become a full-time writer. Porte began her writing career with three stories for the “Read-alone Books" series about the small boy Harry, who lives with his single-parent dentist dad. Middle-graders can enjoy Porte’s "Jesse’s Ghost and Other Stories", a collection of twelve eerie short stories that Publishers Weekly advised “be read in daylight, with people around.” For older readers, "The Kidnapping of Aunt Elizabeth", features fifteen-year-old Ashley Rush who, for a school project on family history, collects stories from assorted relatives. Another of Porte’s well-received books for teens, "I Only Made Up the Roses", focuses on a seventeen-year-old narrator, Cydra, who lives with her white mother, black stepfather, and younger half-brother Perley.
Moreover, Barbara is a contributor of stories, poems, essays, and reviews to literary magazines, including Advocate, Book Links, Confrontation, Earth's Daughters, Green’s Magazine, Hanging Loose, Karamu, Newsday, New York Times, Phoebe, 13th Moon, San Jose Studies, and School Library Journal.
Barbara is married to Floyd Thomas.
