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Sylvia Engdahl

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Sylvia Engdahl

Sylvia Engdahl is an award-winning author of Young Adult science fiction that is also enjoyed by many adults. She is best known for her novelEnchantress from the Stars, which was a Newbery Honor book, winner of the 1990 Phoenix Award of the Children’s Literary Association, and a finalist for the 2002 Book Sense Book of the Year in the Rediscovery category. All her YA novels were initially published by Atheneum between 1970 and 1981, but have been republished in both hardcover and paperback by different publishers in the 21st century. Stewards of the Flame, which she published independently in 2007, is her first adult novel. She is happy to answer questions from readers via e-mail or message board.

Sylvia Engdahl

Books by Sylvia Engdahl