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Cynthia L. Smith

Born: 1967 in Kansas City
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Smith lived in Illinois.

Biography: Cynthia Leitich Smith is a New York Times best-selling author, a writing teacher, and a speaker. She writes fiction for children and young adults.


Awards:
  • Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies and Selector's Choice 2001, TLA 2x2 Reading List 2001, Oklahoma Book Awards finalist, runner up Storyteller Award from Western Writers of America, Editor's Choice from Library Talk for ''Jingle

Primary Audience(s): Children; Young adult readers

Email: cynthia@cynthialeitichsmith.com
Website: http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com
Cynthia L. Smith on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=cynthia+l.+smith


Selected Titles

Indian shoes /
ISBN: 0060295317 OCLC: 47658844

HarperCollins, New York : 2002.

Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.

Tantalize /
ISBN: 076364059X OCLC: 62738692

Candlewick Press, Cambridge, MA : 2007.

When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Kieren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.

Wedding & love fake book :
ISBN: 0793514096 OCLC: 31946793

Hal Leonard Pub. Corp., Milwaukee, WI : ©1994.

Chiefly songs, with words and unacc. melodies with chord symbols; includes also some instrumental works, with melody and chord symbols.

 

 

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