
And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries.Īccent on April by Betty Cavanna and In a Mirror by Mary Stolz – two retro teen reads recommended in Nancy Pearl’s Book Crush. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. 1982 George G.Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library.Boston Globe-Horn Book Award honor book, The Edge of Next Year.National Book Award finalist, The Edge of Next Year.1966 Newbery Honor, ' The Noonday Friends.Boys' Club Junior Book Award, The Bully of Barkham Street.1962 American Library Association (ALA) Newbery Honor, Belling the Tiger.

1953 Child Study Children's Book Award, In a Mirror.

A Love, or a Season (1964) - first published as Two by Two.The Beautiful Friend and Other Stories (1956).The Organdy Cupcakes (1951) - republished as Student Nurse.Casebook of a Private (Cat’s) Eye (1999).Night of Ghosts and Hermits: Nocturnal Life on the Seashore (1985).The Story of a Singular Hen and Her Peculiar Children (1969).Siri the Conquistador (1963), Harper & Row.Stolz wrote one book for adults, Truth and Consequence. She stayed with the Harper publishing company for much of her career, through its incarnations from Harper & Brothers to the present-day HarperCollins. Stolz into the stable of children's book editor Ursula Nordstrom. Jaleski's care, her disabling symptoms resolved and in 1965, she married Dr. During this time she began writing to occupy her time and ultimately drafted her first novel, To Tell Your Love (1950), on yellow legal pads. Chronic pain from arthritis worsened and she was housebound by 1949.

Marriage and childrenĪt age 18, she married and had one son, Bill. She attended Columbia University from 1936 to 1938 and the Katherine Gibbs School.

Raised in Manhattan, she attended the Birch Wathen School and served as assistant editor of her school magazine, Birch Leaves. Mary Slattery was born on Main Boston, Massachusetts.
