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Cynthia C. DeFelice

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Cynthia DeFelice is the author of many bestselling titles for young readers, including the novels Wild Life, The Ghost of Cutler Creek, Signal, and The Missing Manatee, as well as the picture books, One Potato, Two Potato, and Casey in the Bath. Her books have been nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award and listed as American Library Association Notable Children's Books and Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, among numerous other honors.

Cynthia was born in Philadelphia in 1951. As a child, she was always reading. Summer vacations began with a trip to the bookstore, where she and her sister and brothers were allowed to pick out books for their summer reading. “To me,” she says, “those trips to the bookstore were even better than th...more

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Books by Cynthia C. DeFelice

Average rating: 3.92 · 419 ratings · 65 reviews · 28 distinct works

	The Ghost of Fossil Glen 4.07 avg rating — 543 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Weasel 3.77 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Missing Manatee 3.73 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Signal 3.39 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs 3.85 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions	My rating:
	One Potato, Two Potato by Cynthia C. DeFelice, Andrea U'Ren (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Under the Same Sky 3.76 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Ghost of Cutler Creek 3.84 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker 3.64 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Nowhere to Call Home 4.11 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Ghost Mysteries (4 books)
by Cynthia C. DeFelice

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