What is Cynthia DeFelice?
'''Cynthia DeFelice''' (born in 1951 in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]])<ref>{{cite web | url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/cynthiadefelice | title=Cynthia DeFelice &#124; Authors }}</ref> is an [[Americans|American]] [[Children's literature|children's book]] [[writer]]. She has written 16 [[novel]]s, and 12 [[picture]] books for young readers. Her novels are written for children at the reading level of ages nine to twelve. ==Biography== She was born Cynthia Carter in 1951. Her father was a psychiatrist, and her mother was an English teacher, who stopped working to raise DeFelice and her siblings. She credits her mother for her interest in books. She began writing children's books in 1987. She lives in [[Geneva, New York]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cynthiadefelice.com/about-cynthia |title=biographical sketch at author website |access-date=2011-08-18 |archive-date=2010-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100126145241/http://cynthiadefelice.com/about-cynthia |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==Bibliography== ===Children's novels=== *''The Strange Night Writing of Jessamine Colter'', Atheneum (1988), {{ISBN|0027264513}} *''Weasel'', Atheneum (1990), {{ISBN|0027264572}} *''Devil’s Bridge'', Gale Group (1992), {{ISBN|0027264653}} *''The Light on Hogback Hill'' Atheneum (1993), {{ISBN|002726453X}} *''Lostman’s River'', Atheneum (1994), {{ISBN|0027264661}} *''The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker'' [[Farrar, Straus & Giroux]] (1996), {{ISBN|0374346690}} ([[American Library Association|ALA]] Notable Book 1996) *''The Ghost of Poplar Point'', Farrar Straus (1997), {{ISBN|978-0374325404}} *''The Ghost of Fossil Glen'', Farrar Straus (1998), {{ISBN|0374317879}} *''Nowhere to Call Home'' Farrar Straus (1999), {{ISBN|0374355525}} *''Death at Devil’s Bridge'' Farrar Straus (2000), {{ISBN|0374317232}} *''The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs'', Farrar Straus (2001) *''The Ghost of Cutler Creek'', Farrar Straus (2004), {{ISBN|0374380589}} *''Under the Same Sky'', Farrar Straus (2005), {{ISBN|978-0374480653}} *''Missing Manatee'', Far