Betty Levin (1927 - )

Genre: Children's Literature

Levin was born in New York City and grew up in Bridgewater, Conn., NYC, and Washington DC. She lives now on a farm in Lincoln, Mass., summered in Castine, Maine, for over 20 years and in Brooksville ME for over 16 years now. In her spare time, she trains border collies and participated for 10 years in the sheep dog demos at the Common Ground Fair held every September in Maine.

Levin's been a critic and a children's literature teacher as well as a children's novelist (and sheep dog trainer!). Her books include:

• The Zoo Conspiracy (1973)
• The Sword of Culann (1973; this and the next two books are about a girl from a Maine island who travels back in time)
• A Griffin's Nest (1975)
• The Forespoken (1976)
• Landfall (1979)
• Beast on the Brink (1980)
• The Keeping-Room (1981)
• A Binding Spell (1984; mystery/fantasy novel about a girl who moves to Maine and sees a ghost horse)
• Put On My Crown (1985)
• The Ice Bear (1986)
• The Trouble with Gramary (1988; takes place fictional Ledgeport, Maine)
• Brother Moose (1990)
• Mercy's Mill (1992)
• Starshine and Sunglow (1994)
• Away to Me, Moss! (1994), first in the Moss series
• Fire in the Wind (1995/1999; takes place in fictional Prescott Falls, Maine, in the aftermath of the 1947 fires)
• Gift Horse (1996)
• Island Bound (1997/2000; takes place on fictional Fowler's Island, Maine)
• Look Back, Moss (1998), second in the Moss series
• The Banished (1999; prequel to The Ice Bear)
• Creature Crossing (1999)
• Shadow-Catcher (2000)
• That'll Do, Moss (2002), third in the Moss series
• http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060522712/">Shoddy Cove (2003), set in Maine's fictitious Cossit Island Village and concerning the Underground Railroad.
• Thorn (2005)

Last Update: 05/31/2007

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