Cynthia DeFelice est une autrice renommée, particulièrement appréciée pour ses travaux dans la littérature pour enfants. Ses livres ont reçu de nombreuses distinctions, dont des nominations pour un Edgar Allen Poe Award, la reconnaissance en tant que livre préféré de l'année pour enfants de Bank Street, et la mention dans la liste des livres pour enfants notables de l'American Library Association.
Cynthia est née à Philadelphie en 1951 et a développé très tôt une passion pour la lecture. Elle se souvient des vacances d'été débutant par un voyage dans une librairie, où elle et ses frères et sœurs choisissaient des livres pour leur lecture estivale. Depuis, elle a exercé divers métiers tels que libraire, peintre de granges, conteuse et bibliothécaire scolaire, mais c'est son travail d'autrice qui lui a valu la plus grande reconnaissance.
Lorsqu'on lui demande quels aspects de son métier d'autrice elle préfère, Cynthia mentionne le sentiment d'être prise dans les vies de ses personnages, le défi de l'honnêteté dans l'écriture et la satisfaction d'entendre des lecteurs qui lui disent qu'elle a touché quelque chose en eux avec ses écrits. Elle vit actuellement avec son mari à Geneva, dans l'État de New York.
Devil's Bridge Books
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Devil's Bridge
1994
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Death at Devil's Bridge
2000
Ghost Mysteries Books
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The Ghost of Fossil Glen
1998
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The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs
2001
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The Ghost of Cutler Creek
2004
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The Ghost of Poplar Point
2007
Nathan Fowler Books
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Weasel
1991
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Bringing Ezra Back
2006
Romans indépendants
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The Strange Night Writing of Jessamine Colter
1988
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The Dancing Skeleton
1989
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The Light on Hogback Hill
1993
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Lostman's River
1994
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The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
1996
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Nowhere to Call Home
1999
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Cold Feet
2000
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Under the Same Sky
2003
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The Missing Manatee
2005
10
Signal
2009
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Wild Life
2011
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Fort
2015
Livres pour enfants
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When Grampa Kissed His Elbow
1992
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Mule Eggs
1994
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Three Perfect Peaches (With: Mary De Marsh)
1995
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Three Perfect Peaches
1995
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Casey in the Bath
1996
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Willy's Silly Grandma
1997
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Clever Crow
1998
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The Real, True Dulcie Campbell
2002
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Old Granny and the Bean Thief
2003
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One Potato, Two Potato
2006
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Nelly May Has Her Say
2013
Avon Camelot Books
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Lottie & Lisa
1952
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Lottie & Lisa (By: Erich Kastner)
1952
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Summerdog Comes Home (By: George Albert Zabriskie)
1980
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Summerdog Comes Home
1980
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A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher (By: Mike Thaler)
1981
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Baseball Fever
1981
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Baseball Fever (By: Ray Cruz, Johanna Hurwitz)
1981
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A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher
1981
9
The Trouble with Tuck
1981
10
The Trouble with Tuck (By: Theodore Taylor)
1981
11
Irma and Jerry (By: George Selden)
1982
12
Irma and Jerry
1982
13
Basic Fun (By: Susan Drake Lipscomb, Margaret Ann Zusnich)
1982
14
Basic Fun
1982
15
Esp McGee (By: Edward Packard)
1983
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Summerdog
1983
17
Tunnel to Yesterday (By: Jerome Beatty Jr.)
1983
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Esp McGee
1983
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Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You (By: Vicki Cobb)
1983
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Tunnel to Yesterday
1983
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Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You
1983
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Rich Mitch (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)
1983
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Summerdog (By: Thom Roberts)
1983
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Rich Mitch
1983
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The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes
1983
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Bet You Can't! (By: Kathy Darling, Vicki Cobb)
1983
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The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes (By: Laurence Pringle)
1983
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Behind the Attic Wall
1983
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Behind the Attic Wall (By: Sylvia Cassedy)
1983
30
Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater
1984
31
Gremlins
1984
32
Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater (By: Bruce Curtis, Stephanie Young)
1984
33
Maura's Angel
1984
34
Gremlins (By: George Gipe)
1984
35
Maura's Angel (By: Lynne Reid Banks)
1984
36
The Jellyfish Season
1985
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The Jellyfish Season (By: Mary Downing Hahn)
1985
38
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1
1985
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1 (By: Andrew Glass, Catherine Edwards Sadler)
1985
40
Mystery of the Melted Diamonds
1986
41
Ukrainian Egg Mystery
1986
42
Get Rich Mitch! (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)
1985
43
Mystery of the Melted Diamonds (By: Carol Farley)
1986
44
Moroccan Mystery
1986
45
Ukrainian Egg Mystery (By: George E. Stanley)
1986
46
Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol
1986
47
Moroccan Mystery (By: Thomas McKean)
1986
48
Flash Fry, Private Eye
1986
49
The Anti-Peggy Plot
1986
50
Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol (By: Steve Senn)
1986
51
Best Joke Book for Kids 2
1987
52
Flash Fry, Private Eye (By: Tim Schoch)
1986
53
The Anti-Peggy Plot (By: Thomas McKean)
1986
54
The Codebreaker Kids
1987
55
Best Joke Book for Kids 2 (By: Joan Eckstein)
1987
56
Summer Camp Creeps
1987
57
The Case of the Lost Look-Alike
1988
58
The Codebreaker Kids (By: George E. Stanley)
1987
59
Breezy
1988
60
Summer Camp Creeps (By: Tim Schoch)
1987
61
Racing the Sun
1988
62
The Case of the Lost Look-Alike (By: Carol Farley)
1988
63
Anne Frank
1989
64
Breezy (By: Leda Blumberg)
1988
65
Ghost Brother
1990
66
Racing the Sun (By: Paul Pitts)
1988
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Anne Frank (By: Johanna Hurwitz)
1989
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The Case of the Vanishing Villain
1990
69
Something Upstairs
1990
70
The Case of the Vanishing Villain (By: Carol Farley)
1990
71
Something Upstairs (By: C.S. Adler)
1990
72
A Haunting in Williamsburg
1990
73
The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists
1991
74
Ghost Brother (By: C.S. Adler)
1990
75
The Adventures of King Midas
1992
76
A Haunting in Williamsburg (By: Lou Kassem)
1990
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Ask Me Anything About the Presidents
1992
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The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists (By: Eugenie Allen)
1991
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Tons of Trash
1992
80
Ask Me Anything About the Presidents (By: Louis Phillips)
1992
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Maria, a Christmas Story
1992
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The Adventures of King Midas (By: Lynne Reid Banks)
1992
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How to Travel Through Time
1993
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Tons of Trash (By: Joan Rattner Heilman)
1992
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Lucie Babbidge's House
1993
86
Maria, a Christmas Story (By: Theodore Taylor)
1992
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Beardance
1993
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How to Travel Through Time (By: James M. Deem)
1993
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Lucie Babbidge's House (By: Sylvia Cassedy)
1993
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Christmas Countdown
1993
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Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers
1994
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Beardance (By: Will Hobbs)
1993
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Christmas Countdown (By: Steve Englehart)
1993
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The Mummy's Curse
1994
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Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble
1994
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Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers (By: Mike Thaler)
1994
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The Mummy's Curse (By: Daniel Cohen)
1994
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Main Street
1994
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Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble (By: Anne C. Lemieux)
1994
100
Comet Luck
1994
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Main Street (By: Susan Kirby)
1994
102
Kwanzaa
1995
103
Vampire Mom
1995
104
Comet Luck (By: Madge Harrah)
1994
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Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found (By: Johanna Hurwitz)
1995
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My Own Two Feet
1995
107
Spookhouse
1995
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Kwanzaa (By: Mildred Pitts Walter)
1995
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Vampire Mom (By: Don Whittington)
1995
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Harry the Poisonous Centipede
1996
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My Own Two Feet (By: Beverly Cleary)
1995
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Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller
1996
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Four Perfect Pebbles
1996
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Spookhouse (By: Don Whittington)
1995
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Zombie Queen
1996
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Harry the Poisonous Centipede (By: Lynne Reid Banks)
1996
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Freak Show
1996
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Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller (By: Septima Green)
1996
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Four Perfect Pebbles (By: Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan)
1996
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Going to Net
1996
121
Zombie Queen (By: Don Whittington)
1996
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Lasting Echoes
1997
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Tracks in the Snow
1997
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Freak Show (By: Don Whittington)
1996
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Going to Net (By: Various Various)
1996
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Danger Along the Ohio
1997
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Tracks in the Snow (By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe)
1997
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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
1998
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Night of the Chupacabras
1998
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Danger Along the Ohio (By: Patricia Willis)
1997
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As Ever, Gordy
1998
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Lasting Echoes (By: Joseph Bruchac)
1997
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Becoming Felix
1998
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Night of the Chupacabras (By: Marie G. Lee)
1998
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Breakaway
1998
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As Ever, Gordy (By: Mary Downing Hahn)
1998
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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (By: Anita Lobel)
1998
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Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me
1998
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Becoming Felix (By: Nancy Hope Wilson)
1998
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It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz
1998
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Leaving Summer
1998
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Breakaway (By: Kimberley Griffiths Little)
1998
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Flea Circus Summer
1998
144
Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me (By: Dawn Knight)
1998
145
It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz (By: Jacqueline Shannon)
1998
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Calling Me Home
1998
147
Leaving Summer (By: Donal Harding)
1998
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The Pizza That Time Forgot
1999
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Love Me, Love My Broccoli
1999
150
Flea Circus Summer (By: Cheryl Ware)
1998
151
Get on the Net
1999
152
Calling Me Home (By: Patricia Hermes)
1998
153
The Pizza That Time Forgot (By: William DeAndrea, Matthew Deandrea)
1999
154
Don't Try This at Home!
1999
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Love Me, Love My Broccoli (By: Julie Anne Peters)
1999
156
Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters
1999
157
Get on the Net (By: Robert Pondiscio)
1999
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A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights
1999
159
Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors
1999
160
Don't Try This at Home! (By: Vicki Cobb)
1999
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Green Mango Magic
1999
162
Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters (By: Bruce Coville)
1999
163
A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights (By: Kathleen Krull)
1999
164
All the Answers
2000
165
Can of Worms
2000
166
Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors (By: Bruce Coville)