Sonia Levitin
Sonia Levitin (b. Berlin, August 18, 1934) is a novelist and author of over forty novels and picture books for young adults and children, as well as published essays on various topics for adults.[1] Her books include: The Journey to America and Silver Days, a series about a family of German Jewish refugees who flee the horrors of the Holocaust, and The Cure, a story about a boy in the future sent back in time.[2]
Her book Strange Relations (2007) won a Sydney Taylor Book Award.[3]
Books
- Adam's War
- All the Cats in the World
- Annie's Promise
- Beyond Another Door
- Boom Town
- Clem's Chances
- The Cure
- Dream Freedom
- Escape from Egypt
- Evil Encounter
- The Fisherman and the Bird (written with Francis Livingston)
- The Golem and the Dragon Girl
- The Goodness Gene
- Incident at Loring Groves
- Jason and the Money Tree
- Journey to America
- The Mark of Conte
- Nine for California
- Nobody Stole the Pie
- The No-Return Trail
- A Piece of Home
- Reigning Cats and Dogs
- The Return
- Rita, the Weekend Rat
- Roanoke: A Novel of the Lost Colony
- Room in the Heart
- A Season for Unicorns
- Silver Days
- The Singing Mountain
- A Single Speckled Egg
- Smile Like a Plastic Daisy
- A Sound to Remember
- Strange Relations
- Taking Charge
- Who Owns the Moon?
- The Year of Sweet Senior Insanity
- Yesterday's Child
References
- ↑ "Sonia Levitin: Biography". Author's Official website. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
- ↑ "Sonia Levitin". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
- ↑ Silver (2011-01-01). Best Jewish Books for Children and Teens: A JPS Guide. Jewish Publication Society. pp. 237–. ISBN 9780827611214. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
- Drew, Bernard Alger (2002). 100 More Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies. Libraries Unlimited. pp. 181–. ISBN 9781563089206. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
External links
- Sonia Levitin's website
- Sonia Levitin at Fantastic Fiction
- Rita Berman Frischer, Sonia Levitin, in Jewish Women's Archive's Jewish Women Encyclopedia
- Levitin, Sonia 1934–, in: Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, 2009, at encyclopedia.com
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