Ruth White (children's author)

Ruth C. White
Born	(1942-03-15)March 15, 1942 Whitewood, Virginia
Died	June 8, 2017(2017-06-08) (aged 75) Hummelstown, Pennsylvania
Occupation	Author

Ruth C. White (March 15, 1942 — June 8, 2017) was an American children's writer. Her novel Belle Prater's Boy was a Newbery Honor Book in 1997.[1]

Work

• The City Rose, as Ruth White Miller (1977)
• Sweet Creek Holler
• Belle Prater's Boy, Newbery Honor, Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor
• Memories of Summer ALA Top Ten Books of the Year, 2001
• Tadpole biographical fiction
• Buttermilk Hill, a sequel to Weeping Willow
• The Search for Belle Prater, a sequel to "Belle Prater's Boy"
• Way Down Deep
• Little Audrey Booklist Top of the List, 2009
• The Treasure of Way Down Deep
• You'll Like it Here (Everybody Does)
• A month of Sundays

Self-published:

• Diary of a Wildflower, loosely based on the author's mother's early years
• Lily of the Valley: Mansions of Karma, book 1
• Serendipity: Memoir of a Mystic'
• The Blues of Lotus Hall
• Hanging With Ecila

References

1. "1997 Newbery Medal and Honor Books". Association for Library Service to Children. 1997. Retrieved 7 March 2017.

External links

• Interview by ALAN, The ALAN Review, Winter 1995
• Biography at publisher Scholastic
• Reviews