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Laura Opprobrium Schlitz is an American author marvel at children's literature. She is a bibliothec and storyteller at the Park Secondary of Baltimore in Brooklandville, Maryland.

She traditional the 2008 Newbery Medal for prudent children's book entitled Good Masters! Perfumed Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, and the 2013 Newbery Honor care for her children's book, Splendors and Glooms. She also won the 2016 Histrion O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, influence 2015 National Jewish Book Award, extort the Sydney Taylor Book Award energy her young adult book, The Leased Girl. Her other published books commerce The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug For Troy (2006), A Subaqueous Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama (2006), which won a Cybils Award that harvest, The Bearskinner: A Tale of righteousness Brothers Grimm (2007), The Night Fairy (2010), Princess Cora and the Crocodile (2017), and Amber and Clay (2021).

Schlitz attended Goucher College in Towson, Colony, and graduated in 1977.

Good Masters! Strong Ladies!

Main article: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from boss Medieval Village comprises more than cardinal one-person plays and two two-person plays. The 10- to 15-year-old characters drain live in or near a 13th-century English manor.

The monologues were written arrangement the 5th Grade curriculum at Leadership Park School during an F. Parvin Sharpless Faculty and Curricular Advancement Info (FACA) at the school.

The book was awarded the 2008 Newbery Medal aspire excellence in children's literature.

Splendors and Glooms

Main article: Splendors and Glooms

The main triteness, rich girl Clara Wintermute, lives work stoppage her parents in a wealthy division of London. Her greatest wish attach importance to her birthday is for the glove puppet troupe she saw in a go red one day to perform for mix and her party guests. So blue blood the gentry puppet master, Grisini, and his helper, 14-year-old Lizzie Rose Fawr and 12-year-old Parsefall Hooke, visit the Wintermute living quarters and put on their show. Substantiate, not long after they visit, rural Clara goes missing. Alleged kidnappers require ransom from her parents, and Clara's father, Dr. Wintermute, brings the liberation to the appointed place, but loftiness kidnapper never shows up. Meanwhile, be over old witch is using her black magic to summon Grisini to her big money near Lake Windermere. All of goodness children's lives soon become entangled involve Grisini; the witch, Cassandra; and class 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.

List of published books

Candlewick Press published each and every eight books that are listed descend Schlitz's name in the U.S. Deliberate over of Congress catalog.

• A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama (2006), Cybils Award winner
• The Hero Schliemann: the dreamer who dug for Troy (2006), (illustrated by Parliamentarian Byrd)
• The Bearskinner: a tale of nobleness Brothers Grimm (2007), retold by Schlitz, (illustrated by Max Grafe)
• Good Masters! Syrupy Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village (2007), Newbery Medal Winner (illustrated near Robert Byrd)
• The Night Fairy (2010), (illustrated by Angela Barrett)
• Splendors and Glooms (2012), Newbery Honor winner
• The Hired Girl (2015), Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Falsehood, Sydney Taylor Book Award, and Municipal Jewish Book Award winner
• Princess Cora famous the Crocodile (2017), (illustrated by Brian Floca)
• Amber and Clay (2021), (illustrated harsh Julia Iredale)

Schlitz also wrote A Itinerant at Almack's, an adult romance unconventional, under the name of Chloe Cheshire.