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Schlitz attended Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, and graduated in 1977.
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Schlitz attended Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, and graduated in 1977.
She is a librarian and storyteller at The Park School in Brooklandville, Maryland. 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.
The book was awarded the 2008 Newbery Medal for excellence in children"s literature. Her greatest wish for her birthday is for the puppet troupe she saw in a park one day to perform for her and her party guests.
So the puppet master, Grisini, and his assistants, 14-year-old Lizzie Rose Fawr and 12-year-old Parsefall Hooke, visit the Wintermute home and put on their show. Then, not long after they visit, young Clara goes missing.
Meanwhile, an old witch is using her magic to summon Grisini to her estate near Lake Windermere.
All of the children"s lives soon become entangled with Grisini. The witch, Cassandra. And the Wintermutes. And all the while, Clara is being hidden in plain sight.
The book was awarded the 2013 Newbery Honor for excellence in children"s literature.
She received the 2008 Newbery Medal for her children"s book entitled Good Masters! Her other published books are The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug Foreign 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 The Hired Girl (2015). A Drowned Maiden"s Hair: A Melodrama (2006), Cybils Award winner Voices from a Medieval Village (2007), Newbery Medal Winner (illustrated by Robert Byrd) (2012), Newbery Honor Winner The Hired Girl (2015), Scott O"Dell Award for Historical Fiction winner.
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