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The Wish (young adult novel), HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1999.īetsy Who Cried Wolf (for children), illustrated by Scott Nash, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2002.įor Biddle's Sake (for children), illustrated by Mark Elliott, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2002.įairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg (for children), illustrated by David Christiana, Disney Press (New York, NY), 2005.įairest (novel), HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2006. WRITINGS:Įlla Enchanted (young adult novel), HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1997.ĭave at Night (young adult novel), HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1999. AWARDS, HONORS:īest Books for Young Adults and Quick Picks for Young Adults citations, American Library Association (ALA), and Newbery Honor Book, ALA, 1998, Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, 1999, all for Ella Enchanted Notable Book and Best Books for Young Adults citations, ALA, 100 Books for Reading and Sharing, and Books for the Teen Age Lists, New York Public Library, and Publishers Weekly Best Books of 1999, all 1999, all for Dave at Night. New York State Department of Labor, New York, NY, employment interviewer, 1970-82 New York State Department of Commerce, New York, NY, administrative assistant, 1982-86 New York State Department of Social Services, New York, NY, welfare administrator, 1986-96 New York State Department of Labor, New York, NY, welfare administrator, 1986-97. Agent-Ginger Knowlton, Curtis Brown Ltd., 10 Astor Pl., New York, NY 10003. Education: City College of the City University of New York, B.A., 1969.

And here comes Kezi to weave at her side.Born September 17, 1947, in New York, NY daughter of David (an owner of a commercial art studio) and Sylvia (a teacher) Carson married David Levine (a software developer), September 2, 1967. I had fun researching long-ago food, clothing, religion-learning enough to picture how it might have felt to walk down a baked-mud street, enter a house made of baked mud, proceed through the reception room into the cool interior courtyard where household activities may have taken place. But medicine was not so good, which plays into the plot of Ever.

Their sewage systems surpassed anything in medieval Europe thousands of years later.

Our sixty seconds in a minute and sixty minutes in an hour originated with them.

The Mesopotamians were marvelous mathematicians. Cuneiform appears in the chapter headings, so you can copy the numbers up to sixty-nine, since there is no Chapter 70. Writing began in ancient Mesopotamia, and Ever takes place in a fantasy version of that time and place. Ever can teach you to write numbers in cuneiform, the first known writing system in the world.