Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Born (1958-11-18) November 18, 1958 (age 65)
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma materMarywood College
University of Scranton
Occupations
  • Artist
  • children's author
  • educator
Websitewww.scbartoletti.com

Susan Campbell Bartoletti (born November 18, 1958) is an American writer of children's literature whose work includes Kids on Strike! and Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow.

She was born in

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but eventually the family ended up in a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania. She graduated from Marywood University (previously College) in 1979 and from the University of Scranton
in 1982.

Campbell Bartoletti began her career as an eighth-grade English teacher before deciding to pursue writing in earnest. Seeing her students write and create original work, she was inspired to create her own.

Newbery Honor in 2006.[3]

She teaches writing classes at a number of MA and MFA programs, among them Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, and Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. Additionally, she leads workshops offered through the Highlights Foundation. She resides with her family in Moscow, Pennsylvania.

Works

Non-fiction

  • Growing Up in Coal Country (1996)
  • Kids on Strike! (1999)
  • Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845 to 1850 (2001) - Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal winner, 2002
  • The Flag Maker (2004)
  • Newbery Honor
    Book 2006
  • They Called Themselves The K.K.K : The Birth of an American Terrorist Group (2010)

Fiction

  • Silver at Night (1994)
  • Dancing with Dziadziu (1997)
  • No Man's Land: A Young Soldier's Story (1999)
  • A Coal Miner's Bride : The Diary of Anetka Kaminska (2000), Dear America Series
  • The Christmas Promise (2001), Blue Sky Press[4]
  • The Journal of Finn Reardon : A Newsie (2003),
    My Name is America
    Series
  • Nobody's Nosier Than a Cat (2003)
  • Nobody's Diggier than a Dog (2005)
  • The Boy Who Dared (2008)
  • Naamah and the Ark at Night (2011)

References

  1. ^ "Susan Campbell Bartoletti". www.scbartoletti.com. Archived from the original on 2018-07-25. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
  2. ^ "Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Biography | Scholastic.com". Scholastic Teachers. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
  3. ^ "Susan Campbell Bartoletti's Biography | Scholastic.com". Scholastic Teachers. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
  4. ISBN 0-8091-4396-8

External links
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