Karleen Bradford
Encyclopedia
Karleen Bradford is a Canadian
children's author.
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 Foreign Service Officer.
Published Books
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
children's author.
Born in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Bradford moved to Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
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 Foreign Service Officer.
Published Books
- A Year for Growing - 1977 (republished as Wrong Again Robby - 1983)
- The Other Elizabeth - 1982
- I Wish There Were Unicorns - 1983
- The Stone in the Meadow - 1983
- The Nine Days Queen - 1986
- Windward Island - 1989 (winner of the 1990 Max and Greta Ebel Award 1990)
- There Will be Wolves - 1992 (winner of the 1993 Canadian Library Association Young
- Thirteenth Child - 1994
- Animal Heroes - 1995
- Write Now! - 1996
- Shadows on a Sword - 1996
- More Animal Heroes - 1996
- Dragonfire - 1997
- The Haunting at Cliff House - 1998
- A different Kind of Companion - 1998
- Lionheart's Scribe - 1999
- Whisperings of Magic - 2001
- Dear CanadaDear CanadaDear Canada is a series of historical novels for older girls first published starting in 2001 to the present by Scholastic Canada Ltd. They are similar to the Dear America series, each book is written in the form of the diary of a fictional young woman living during an important event in Canadian...
: 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