Avi is a popular
author of books for children and teens. His books span audiences from young children to teens and genres from humour to
historical fiction to
mystery.
Several of his books have won awards. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and Nothing but the Truth were both Newbery Honor Books, and both these books and Poppy have won Boston Horn-Globe Book Awards.
He is secretive about what his birth name was and goes exclusively by Avi, a nickname conferred on him by his twin sister Emily early on in life. He was born in 1937 in New York to a family to whom reading and writing were very important. He has a learning disability (dysgraphia) that caused him to struggle with both things in school, but when he finally overcame some of his difficulties with the help of tutoring, he discovered a talent for writing. He started writing plays for adults, and then when he had children began writing the children's books he is famous for. He remains an outspoken friend of learning-disabled children.
He has an official website at www.avi-writer.com.
His books:
-Midnight Magic
-Emily Upham's Revenge
-History of Helpless Harry
-Punch With Judy
-Romeo & Juliet, Together and Alive at Last
-S.O.R. Losers
-Who Was that Masked Man Anyway?
-The Man who was Poe
-No More Magic
-Who Stole The Wizard Of Oz?
-Wolf Rider
-Poppy
-Poppy & Rye
-Ragweed
-Ereth's Birthday
-Man From The Sky
-Smuggler's Island
-Windcatcher
-The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
-City of Light/City of Dark
-The Barn
-Beyond the Western Sea
-Captain Grey
-The Fighting Ground
-Night Journeys
-Encounter At Easton
-Finding Providence
-Bright Shadow
-The Christmas Rat
-Perloo the Bold
-Tom, Babbette & Simon
-Keep Your Eyes on Amanda
-Amanda Joins the Circus
-Devils Race
-Something Upstairs
-Blue Heron
-Nothing but the truth
-A Place Called Ugly
-Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name
-What Do Fish Have To Do With Anything?
-Abigail Takes the Wheel