Eloise Jarvis McGraw





Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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born
December 09, 1915

died
November 30, 2000

gender
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Eloise Jarvis McGraw was an author of children's books. She was awarded the Newbery Honor three times in three different decades, for her novels Moccasin Trail (1952), The Golden Goblet (1962), and The Moorchild (1997). A Really Weird Summer (1977) won an Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America. McGraw had a very strong interest in history, and among the many books she wrote for children are Greensleeves, Pharaoh, The Seventeenth Swap, and Mara, Daughter of the Nile.

McGraw also contributed to the Oz series started by L. Frank Baum, writing with her daughter Lauren Lynn McGraw (Wagner) Merry Go Round in Oz (the last of the Oz books issued by Baum's publisher) and The Forbidden Fountain of Oz, and later writi...more


Average rating: 3.93 · 10,980 ratings · 947 reviews · 23 distinct works · Similar authors
Mara, Daughter of the Nile
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 3,673 ratings — published 1953 — 4 editions
The Moorchild
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 3,214 ratings — published 1996 — 19 editions
The Golden Goblet
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 2,259 ratings — published 1986 — 10 editions
Moccasin Trail
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 1,097 ratings — published 1952 — 7 editions
Master Cornhill
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions
Greensleeves
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1968
Seventeenth Swap
3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions
Sawdust in His Shoes
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1950 — 2 editions
The Striped Ships
3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1991
Merry Go Round in Oz (Book 40)
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1963 — 5 editions
More books by Eloise Jarvis McGraw…
“I'll change to a dragon, then you'll be sorry.”
Eloise Jarvis McGraw, The Moorchild

“Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.”
Eloise Jarvis McGraw, The Moorchild

“You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.”
Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Mara, Daughter of the Nile

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