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Sarah Ellis

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Vancouver, Canada

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Writer, columnist, and librarian Sarah Ellis has become one of the best-known authors for young adults in her native Canada with titles such as The Baby Project, Pick-Up Sticks, and Back of Beyond: Stories of the Supernatural. In addition to young adult novels, Ellis has also written for younger children and has authored several books about the craft of writing. Praised by Booklist contributor Hazel Rochman as "one of the best children's literature critics," Ellis "writes without condescension or pedantry. . . . Her prose is a delight: plain, witty, practical, wise."

Ellis was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1952, the youngest of three children in her family. As she once noted, "[My] joy in embroidering the truth probably com...more

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Books by Sarah Ellis

Average rating: 3.64 · 693 ratings · 94 reviews · 42 distinct works

	A Prairie as Wide as the Sea: The Immigrant Diary of Ivy Weatherall, Milorie, Saskatchewan, 1926 3.55 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Days of Toil and Tears: The Child Labour Diary of Flora Rutherford, Almonte, Ontario, 1887 3.56 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	That Fatal Night: The Titanic Diary of Dorothy Wilton 3.92 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	A Season for Miracles by Sarah Ellis (Contributor), Sharon Stewart (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Julie Lawson (Contributor) 3.44 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Odd Man Out 3.69 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Baby Project 3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Several Lives of Orphan Jack by Sarah Ellis, Bruno St-Aubin (Illustrations) 3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Out of the Blue 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Pick-Up Sticks 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	From Reader to Writer: Teaching Writing Through Classic Children's Books 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating: