Avi Website:www.avi-writer.com Birthplace: New York City, NY USA Most recent address:Denver, CO USA Author Biography Avi Wortis (and a twin sister) were born in New York City December 23, 1937. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin and then a Master's in Library Science from Columbia University. Avi is known primarily for his novels. "Encounter at Easton" won the 1980 Christopher Award. "True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" was a Newbery Honor Book in 1991. "Nothing But the Truth" was a Newbery Honor Book in 1992. "Crispin" won the 2003 Newbery Award and was an ALA Notable Children's Book. "Silent Movie" was an ALA Notable Children's Book in 2004. Updating Results ... You are viewing: Author - AviSort By Age Sort By Author Sort By Availability Sort By Dewey Sort By Media, Author, Title Sort By Price Sort By Pub. Year Sort by Relevance,Author Sort by Relevance,Title Sort By Stoplight Sort By Title Sort by Language Display 10 items Display 15 items Display 20 items Display 25 items Display 30 items Display 35 items Display 40 items Display 45 items Display 50 items 1 each from this page1 each from all results 14 total titles found Page 1 of 1 View page of 1 1 Simply add a title by clicking the . * Your Discounted Price Catch You Later, Traitor by Avi Audio Book()Publication Date: 08/15/2015 BTSB #: P02899 Available Dewey: FAges: 8-12 Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life Subjects: Summary: It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family? Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 64.59 * 0.00 +- City of magic by Avi BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2022)Publication Date: 06/28/2022 BTSB #: 077414 Available Dewey: FAges: 8-12 AR: 4.6 MG Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction Subjects: Magicians - Fiction Magic tricks - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Adventure fiction Renaissance - Italy - Venice - Fiction Venice (Italy) - History|y15th century - Fiction Italy - History|y15th century - Fiction Summary: Mangus the Magician and his thirteen-year-old servant, Fabrizio, are commanded to go to Venice, on pain of death, to find a book by Friar Luca Pacioli that reportedly contains a magical means of making money; but Venice is a strange and dangerous city, and someone else is also after the book--then Mangus is arrested, and taken to the prison, and Fabrizio and Bianca, an orphan he has met, must find a way to secure the book, save Magnus, and themselves. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.08 * 0.00 +- Crispin : the cross of lead by Avi BTSB Prebound(Disney/Hyperion, 2002)Publication Date: 06/15/2002 BTSB #: 077420 Available Dewey: FAges: 10-14 AR: 5 MG RC: 6.1 6-8 Lexile: 780 F&P: W Genres: Historical Fiction Subjects: Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Middle Ages - Fiction Great Britain - History|y1066-1485, Medieval period - Fiction Summary: Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 21.68 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Gold rush girl by Avi BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2020)Publication Date: 03/10/2020 BTSB #: 077444 Available Dewey: FAges: 10-14 AR: 5.1 MG Lexile: 730 F&P: W Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction Family Life Subjects: Gold mines and mining - California - History|y19th century Adventure fiction Family life - Fiction Kidnapping - Fiction Summary: Rhode Island native Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell finds her way to mud-caked, tent-filled San Francisco in 1848 to find a new life of adventure with her father and younger brother only to end up on an unintended--and perilous--adventure to save her kidnapped brother. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.08 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Lost in the Empire City by Avi BTSB Prebound(Quill Tree Books, 2024)Publication Date: 10/29/2024 BTSB #: 077438 Available Dewey: FAges: 8-12 AR: 4.3 MG Genres: Historical Fiction Adventure Fiction Subjects: Family life - Fiction Immigration and emigration - Fiction Summary: When Santo's father left their tiny town in Italy for America, he made Santo promise to keep their family together until he has enough money to bring the rest of them to the US. However, Santo gets separated from his mother and siblings at Ellis Island, and he is left to fend for himself on the mean streets of Manhattan. While searching for them he gets involved with a gang, but after a betrayal he will have to use his street smarts to reunite with his family. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.98 * 0.00 +- Loyalty by Avi BTSB Prebound(Clarion, 2022)Publication Date: 04/05/2022 BTSB #: 077443 Available Dewey: FAges: 10-12 AR: 5.2 MG Lexile: 720 Genres: Historical Fiction Subjects: Spies - Fiction Colonists - Fiction Revenge - Fiction Frustration - Fiction United States - History|y1600-1775, Colonial period United States - History|y1775-1783, Revolution Summary: When his father is killed by rebel vigilantes, Noah flees with his family to Boston. Intent on avenging his father, Noah becomes a spy for the British and firsthand witness to the hypocrisy of men. Noah must forge his own understanding of right and wrong and determine for himself where his loyalty truly lies. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.38 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Man who was Poe by Avi Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2008)Publication Date: 05/01/1995 BTSB #: P00453 Available Dewey: FAges: 13-18 Genres: Mystery Fiction Subjects: Poe, Edgar Allan,|d1809-1849 - Fiction Mystery fiction Providence (R.I.) - Fiction Summary: In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 52.24 * 0.00 +- Midnight magic by Avi Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2010)Publication Date: 07/01/2010 BTSB #: P01199 Available Dewey: FAges: 8-11 Genres: Supernatural Historical Fiction Subjects: Magicians - Fiction Renaissance - Italy - Fiction Summary: In Italy in 1491, Mangus the magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of Duke Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 47.49 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Most important thing : stories about sons, fathers, and grandfathers by Avi BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2016)Publication Date: 04/15/2016 BTSB #: 077447 Available Dewey: 808/SAges: 10-14 AR: 3.9 MG RC: 4.2 6-8 Lexile: 560 HL Genres: Subjects: Father-son relationship - Fiction Grandparent-grandchild relationship - Fiction Sons - Fiction Summary: Seven heartbreaking, hopeful, and funny short stories exploring how boys seek acceptance, guidance, or just an older male to look up to. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.38 * 0.00 +- Murder at midnight by Avi Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2010)Publication Date: 01/01/2010 BTSB #: P01003 Available Dewey: FAges: 8-11 Genres: Subjects: Magicians - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Summary: Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 47.49 * 0.00 +- Ragweed and Poppy [Poppy]by Avi BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2020)Publication Date: 05/12/2020 BTSB #: 077493 Available Dewey: FAges: 8-12 AR: 4.2 MG Genres: Adventure Fiction Animals Fantasy Fiction Subjects: Mice - Fiction Raccoons - Fiction Adventure fiction Summary: The story of how Ragweed and Poppy met in Dimwood Forest. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.38 * 0.00 +- School of the dead by Avi Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2016)Publication Date: 06/21/2016 BTSB #: P03316 Available Dewey: FAges: 8-12 Genres: Supernatural Subjects: Families - Fiction School stories Summary: The story of seventh-grader Tony Gilbert, who, after transferring to the mysterious Penda School, starts seeing the ghost of his great uncle Charlie. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 71.24 * 0.00 +- Secret sisters by Avi BTSB Prebound(Clarion, 2023)Publication Date: 08/29/2023 BTSB #: 077494 Available Dewey: FAges: 8-12 Genres: Humorous Fiction Subjects: High schools - Fiction School stories City and town life - Fiction Summary: In the fall of 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida enters a small-town high school after years of attending a rural one-room schoolhouse, but the enthusiasm she and her new friends have for the modern world and modern ways pits them against the school's old-fashioned principal. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 23.78 * 0.00 +- Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts: Being an Absolutely Accurate Autobiographical Account of My Follies, Fortunes & Fate by Avi Audio Book()Publication Date: 08/10/2017 BTSB #: P03811 Available Dewey: FAges: 9-13 Genres: Historical Fiction Subjects: Summary: In 1724 England, twelve-year-old Oliver Cromwell Pitts embarks on a journey from his seaside home in Melcombe Regis to London to find his father and his older sister, a journey filled with thieves, adventurers, and treachery. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 71.24 * 0.00 +- * Your Discounted Price You can't see me! I am INVISIBLE! 14 total titles found Page 1 of 1 View page of 1 1 1 each from this page1 each from all results You are viewing: Author - AviSort By Age Sort By Author Sort By Availability Sort By Dewey Sort By Media, Author, Title Sort By Price Sort By Pub. 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