Lynne Kositsky facts for kids
Lynne Kositsky (born in 1947) is a Canadian writer. She writes poetry and exciting historical fiction for young adults. Lynne was born in Montreal, Quebec, and grew up in London, England. Today, she lives in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada.
By 2010, she had written ten novels. Her books take readers to many different times and places. These include Ireland during the Great Famine of the 1840s, Nova Scotia in the early 1800s, Elizabethan London, and the time of the Holocaust.
Her stories often feature a young main character, usually a girl. This character has to survive tough times or being left out. These problems are often caused by the mistakes of adults.
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The Rachel Series: Our Canadian Girl
Lynne Kositsky wrote four books in the Our Canadian Girl series for Penguin. These books are all about a young African Canadian girl named Rachel. Rachel was once a slave. After the Revolutionary War, she and her parents had to move to Nova Scotia.
Like many of Kositsky's books, the Rachel series was highly praised. The first and fourth books in the series were nominated for the important Hackmatack Award. Also, A Mighty Big Imagining won a White Raven Award. This award is given by the International Youth Library in Munich. It honors books that help people around the world understand different cultures.
Award-Winning Stories
Kositsky's book The Thought of High Windows received a lot of praise. It won the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Youth in 2006. Many well-known reviewers, like Kirkus, The Washington Post, and the School Library Journal, gave it great reviews.
Exploring Shakespeare's World
A Question of Will (published in 2000) by Lynne Kositsky looks into the Shakespearean authorship question. This is a debate about who really wrote William Shakespeare's plays. The book explores the idea that someone else, like the Earl of Oxford, might have written them.
Since then, Kositsky has worked with Roger Stritmatter. They have written articles for academic journals. These articles discuss the date, sources, and meaning of Shakespeare's play The Tempest. A Question of Will was even part of an exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2006.
Books by Lynne Kositsky
- Candles (Roussan 1998)
- Rebecca's Flame (Roussan 1999)
- A Question of Will (Roussan 2000)
- A Mighty Big Imagining (Penguin 2001)
- The Maybe House (Penguin 2002)
- Certificate of Freedom (Penguin 2003)
- An Elephant Tree Christmas (Penguin 2004)
- The Thought of High Windows (Kids Can 2004)
- Claire By Moonlight (Tundra 2005)
- Minerva's Voyage (Dundurn 2009)
- Our Canadian Girl (Puffin Canada 2010)
- With Roger Stritmatter, On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare's The Tempest, McFarland & Company, 2013.
- The Plagues of Kondar (Dundurn 2014)
- With Fearful Bravery (Dancing Cat Books 2014)
