Edward Irving Wortis, better known by the pen name Avi, is an American author of young adult and children's literature.
Avi's treasured Newbery Honor Book (1991), The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, is a great book to use when discussing gender roles.
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Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Grade Level: 3 - 7
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks; Reprint edition (September 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0545477115
ISBN-13: 978-0545477116
about: Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832.
But when the two families she was supposed to travel with mysteriously cancel their trips, Charlotte finds herself the lone passenger on a long sea voyage with a cruel captain and a mutinous crew. Worse yet, soon after stepping aboard the ship, she becomes enmeshed in a conflict between them! What begins as an eagerly anticipated ocean crossing turns into a harrowing journey, where Charlotte gains a villainous enemy . . . and is put on trial for murder!
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