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Karleen Bradford
Born (1936-12-16) December 16, 1936 (age 88)
Toronto, Ontario
OccupationAuthor
GenreChildren's Literature

Karleen Bradford (born December 16, 1936) is a Canadian children's author.

Bradford's novel Dear Canada: With Nothing But Our Courage is a historical novel about a Loyalist family in the United States after the American Revolution.

Personal

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Bradford moved to Argentina as a child. She returned to Canada to attend university, and after graduation, she spent 34 years in different parts of the world as a wife of a Foreign Service Officer. She currently resides in Owen Sound, Ontario.

Published Books

  • A Year for Growing (1977) - republished as Wrong Again Robby in 1983
  • The Other Elizabeth (1982)
  • I Wish There Were Unicorns (1983)
  • The Stone in the Meadow (1983)
  • The Haunting at Cliff House (1985)
  • The Nine Days Queen (1986)
  • Windward Island (1989) - winner of the 1990 Max and Greta Ebel Award
  • There Will be Wolves (1992) - winner of the 1993 Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award
  • Thirteenth Child (1994)
  • Animal Heroes (1995)
  • Write Now! (1996)
  • Shadows on a Sword (1996)
  • More Animal Heroes (1996)
  • Dragonfire (1997)
  • A different Kind of Companion (1998)
  • Lionheart's Scribe (1999)
  • Whisperings of Magic (2001)
  • Dear Canada: With Nothing But Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary MacDonald, Johnstown, Quebec, 1783 (2002)
  • Angeline (2004)
  • You Can't Rush a Cat (2004)
  • The Scarlet Cross (2006)
  • Dragonmaster (2009)

References

  1. Ruskin Bond, Puffin Good Reading Guide for Children New Delhi, Penguin Books India, ISBN 9780143335078 (p.171)
  2. "Karleen Bradford". HarperCollins. Retrieved 2020-10-29.

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