GLORIA
WHELAN
GLORIA
WHELAN
Gloria Whelan is a poet and award-winning short-story writer
who has also written many books for children, including Hanna; Night of the
Full Moon; Goodbye, Vietnam and Once on This Island. Several of
her books have been IRA Children's and Teacher's Choices and Notable Children's
Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies. She has received the Distinguished
Achievement Award from the Educational Press Association of America and the
Society of Midland Authors 1994 Juvenile Fiction Award. She and her husband live
in the woods of northern Michigan.
Other Books by Gloria Whelan
| Angel on the Square. (2001) In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life. |
| Farewell to the island 1999. (Fic) |
| Goodbye, Vietnam. 1997, c1992. (Fic) Thirteen-year-old Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government. |
| Hannah. 1993. (E) Hannah, a blind girl living in Michigan in the late nineteenth century, doesn't go to school until a new teacher tells her about the Braille method of reading for the blind. |
| Homeless bird. 2000. (Fic) |
| The Indian school 1997, c1996. (Fic) |
| Miranda's last stand 2000. (Fic) |
| Next spring an oriole c1987. (E) In 1837 ten-year-old Libby and her parents journey by covered wagon to the Michigan frontier, where they make themselves a new home near friendly Indians and other pioneers. |
| Night of the full moon 1996. (Fic) |
| Once on this island. 1995. (Fic)Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister tend the family farm on Michigan's Mackinac Island while their father is away fighting the British in the War of 1812. |
| Return to the island 2000. (Fic) |
| Rich and famous in Starvation Lake c2001. (Fic) |
| Shadow of the wolf. c1997. (Fic) |
| Silver. c1988. (Fic) |
| That wild berries should grow : the story of a summer. 1994. (Fic) During the Great Depression, Elsa is sent from her home in Detroit to spend the summer at her grandparents' house on Lake Huron, where she discovers the excitement of nature and the richness of friendship. |
| A time to keep silent. c1993. (Fic) When thirteen-year-old Clair's relationship with her minister father changes after her mother's death, she stops speaking, and the subsequent events change both their lives. |
| The wanigan : a life on the river. c2002. (Fic) |