Books by Laura Amy Schlitz

Laura Amy Schlitz writes middle grade and young adult for ages 7–16, exploring themes of growing up, history, being different.

Standalone Books

The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug for Troy

Laura Amy Schlitz

Archaeology meets deception in this biography of Heinrich Schliemann, a romantic dreamer who may have found the city of

Ages 8–12

A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama

Laura Amy Schlitz

Maud leaves her orphanage only to become a hidden pawn in elaborate seances, forcing her to choose between her conscienc

Ages 10–14

The Night Fairy

Laura Amy Schlitz

Flory the night fairy must find a new way to live and move through the world after her wings are accidentally broken and

Ages 7–10

Splendors and Glooms

Laura Amy Schlitz

Two orphans are pulled into a Victorian mystery involving a missing girl, a sinister puppeteer, and a witch’s deadly leg

Ages 10–14

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village

Laura Amy Schlitz

Twenty-two young people living on a 13th-century English manor share their lives through a series of verse monologues an

Ages 10–15

Princess Cora and the Crocodile

Laura Amy Schlitz

Princess Cora is tired of her dull routine, so her fairy godmother sends a rowdy crocodile to turn her orderly life upsi

Ages 7–10

The Hired Girl

Laura Amy Schlitz

Joan escapes a harsh 1911 farm life to become a hired girl, seeking true love and a real education in this witty, journa

Ages 12–16

Amber and Clay

Laura Amy Schlitz

A Thracian slave boy and a wild aristocratic girl are bound by destiny in ancient Greece, finding a friendship that tran

Ages 10–15

The Winter of the Dollhouse

Laura Amy Schlitz

For the child who feels overlooked or seeks a world where their imagination carries weight, this story explores the quie

Ages 8–12

By Age Range

Ages 4–7

2 books

Ages 8–11

8 books

Ages 12–18