Authors and Illustrators Database

Born: 11/23/1923  Detroit, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Parents: William J. ( a contractor) and Hildegarde Rewoldt
Spouse: Joseph L. Whelan ( a doctor)
Children: Joseph William , Jennifer Nolan
Address(es):
Permanent:
540 Lake Shore Lane
Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236
Contact Information:
Website: http://www.gloriawhelan.com
Email: [email protected]

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Queen Victoria's Bathing Machine	Picture Book	Children	New York : Simon & Schuster	2014
	Bernida : a Michigan sailing legend - written by Al Declercq, Tom Ervin and Gloria Whelan ; illustrated by David Miles. A Michigan Notable Book, 2015	Non Fiction, Michigan	Children, Teen	Ann Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press	2014
	All my noble dreams and then what happens - Sequel to: Small acts of amazing courage	Fiction	Teen	New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers	2013
	Voices for freedom - Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen. The listeners : slavery in America / Gloria Whelan -- Friend on Freedom River : the Underground Railroad / Gwenyth Swain -- Riding to Washington : the 1963 Freedom March / Gloria Whelan.	Fiction	Children, Teen	Ann Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press	2013
	Smudge and the book of mistakes : a Christmas story	Historical Fiction, Picture Book	Children	Ann Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press	2012
	Small Acts of Amazing Courage	Historical Fiction	Teen	New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers	2011
	The Boy who Wanted to Cook - Ten-year-old Pierre dreams of being a chef in the south of France.	Fiction, Picture Book	Children	Ann Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press	2011
	The Disappeared - Silvia tries to save her brother, Eduardo, after he is captured by the military government in 1970s Argentina.	Historical Fiction	Children	New York, NY : Speak	2010
	See what I see - When eighteen-year-old Kate arrives on the Detroit doorstep of her long-estranged father, a famous painter, she is shocked to learn that he is dying and does not want to support her efforts to attend the local art school.	Fiction, Michigan	Teen	New York : HarperTeen,	2010
	After the Train	Fiction, Historical Fiction	Children, Teen	New York : HarperCollins	2009
	Locked Garden - Early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.	Fiction, Michigan History	Children, Teen	New York : HarperCollins	2009
	K is for Kabuki : A Japan Alphabet - Picture book presents alphabetically arranged entries on different topics about Japan, including akita, haiku, kimono, judo, manga, samurai, and yen.	Non Fiction	Children, Teen	Chelsea, MI : Sleeping Bear Press	2009
	The Disappeared - Argentina's Dirty War, 1976-1883	Historical Fiction	Teen	New York : Dial Books	2008
	Yuki and the One Thousand Carriers - Picture book	Fiction, Historical Fiction	Children, Teen	Chelsea, MI : Sleeping Bear Press	2008
	A Parade of Shadows - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918	Fiction, Historical Fiction	Teen	New York : HarperCollins	2007
	Yatandou - "Yatandou lives in a Mali village with her family and neighbors. And though she is only eight years old and would much rather play with her pet goat, she must sit with the women and pound millet kernels."	Picture Book	Children	Chelsea, MI : Sleeping Bear Press	2007
	The Summer of the War - A 2007 Michigan Notable Books	Historical Fiction, Michigan	Teen	New York : HarperCollins	2006
	The Mackinac Bridge: the story of the Five Mile Poem - A 2007 Michigan Notable Books selection illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen.	Fiction, Michigan	Children	Chelsea, MI : Sleeping Bear Press	2006
	The Turning - St. Petersburg Novels	Fiction	Teen	New York : Harper Collins	2006
	Listening for Lions - Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital	Historical Fiction	Children, Teen	New York : HarperCollins	2005
	Chu Ju's House	Fiction	Teen	New York : HarperCollins	2004
	Friend on Freedom River - Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhyzen. Underground Railroad	Historical Fiction, Michigan History	Children	Chelsea, MI : Sleeping Bear Press	2004
	Burying the Sun - St. Petersburg Novels	Fiction, Historical Fiction	Teen	New York : HarperCollins	2004
	A Haunted House in Starvation Lake - Stepping Stone Book	Fiction	Children	New York : Random House Books for Young Readers	2003
	The Impossible Journey - In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin.	Fiction, Historical Fiction	Children, Teen	New York : Harper Collins	2003
	Are there Bears in Starvation Lake? - Stepping Stone Book	Fiction	Children	New York : Random House Books for Young Readers	2002
	Fruitlands : Louisa May Alcott Made Perfect - Fictional diary entries recount the true-life efforts of Louisa May Alcott's family to establish a utopian community known as Fruitlands in Massachusetts in 1843.	Historical Fiction	Children	New York : Harper Collins	2002
	The Wanigan A Life on the River - In 1878, eleven-year-old Annabel and her parents survive a year of adventure which includes floating downriver in two shacks along with a group of Michigan lumbermen moving logs.	Historical Fiction, Michigan History	Children, Teen	New York : Knopf	2002
	Jams and Jellies by Holly and Nelly - Picture book		Children, Teen	Sleeping Bear Press	2002
	Angel on the Square - St. Petersburg Novels	Historical Fiction	Teen	New York : HarperCollins	2001
	Homeless Bird - When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.	Fiction	Teen	New York : HarperCollinsPublishers	2000
	Return to the Island - In 1818 Mary O'Shea must decide whether to remain on Michilmackinac Island and marry her dear Indian friend White Hawk or to accept the proposal of James, an English nobleman, and to go with him to London.	Fiction, Michigan History	Teen	Harper Collins	2000
	Welcome to Starvation Lake - When a tire fire causes a punk rock band to take a detour to Starvation Lake, the fourth-grade students talk them into playing at the school fund raiser.	Fiction	Children	New York : Random House Books for Young Readers	2000
	Miranda's Last Stand - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show	Fiction, Historical Fiction	Children	New York : HarperCollins Publishers	1999
	Farewell to the Island - In 1816, sixteen-year-old Mary O'Shea accepts her married sister's invitation to visit her in London and experiences much of the world beyond her beloved family farm on Mackinac Island.	Fiction, Michigan	Teen	New York, NY : HarperCollins	1998
	Forgive the River, Forgive the Sky	Fiction, Michigan	Teen	Grand Rapids, MI : Eerdman's Books for Young Readers	1998
	Friends	Fiction, Picture Book	Children	Charlotte, NC : Thunder Bay Press	1997
	The Shadow of the Wolf - Stepping Stone Book. In 1841 thirteen-year-old Libby and her family begin a new life on the shores of Lake Michigan where her father works as a surveyor for the Ottawa Indians and Libby is reunited with her Indian friend Fawn.	Historical Fiction, Michigan History	Children	New York : Random House	1997
	The Miracle of St. Nicholas - It was the day before Christmas in a small Russian village. Alexi's babushka was telling him what Christmas was like when she was a girl-before the soldiers came.	Fiction, Picture Book	Children	Bathgate, ND Bethleham Books	1997
	The Indian School - In 1839, newly orphaned eleven-year-old Mary goes to live with her missionary aunt and uncle who run a school for Indian children in northern Michigan.	Fiction, Michigan History	Children	New York : HarperCollins Publishers	1996
	Once on this Island - 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.	Fiction, Michigan History	Teen	New York : HarperCollinsPublishers	1995
	That Wild Berries Should Grow	Fiction, Michigan	Children	Grand Rapids, MI : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers	1994
	Night of the Full Moon - Stepping Stone Book. In 1840, Libby, living with her family on the Michigan frontier, finds herself inadvertently caught up in the forced evacuation of a group of Potawatomi Indians from their tribal lands.	Historical Fiction, Michigan History	Children	New York : Knopf	1993
	Goodbye, Vietnam - Refugees	Fiction, Historical Fiction	Children	New York : Knopf	1992
	Bringing the Farmhouse Home - Death and Inheritance	Fiction, Picture Book	Children	New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers	1992
	Hannah - 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.	Fiction, Michigan History	Children	New York : Random House	1991
	The Secret Keeper	Fiction, Michigan, Mystery	Teen	New York : Knopf	1990
	A Week of Raccoons	Fiction, Picture Book	Children	New York : Knopf	1988
	Silver - Stepping Stone Book. Deep in the Alaskan wilds, 9-year-old Rachel dreams of owning and racing a sled dog one day. When her father, who breeds and races huskies, gives her the runt of the litter, Rachel names the puppy Silver and sets out to prove he's a champion.	Fiction	Children	New York : Random House	1988
	Playing with Shadows - Anthology	Fiction	Adult	Urbana, IL : University of Illinois	1988
	Poems from the Third Coast - Anthology Contributor	Poetry	Adult	Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press	1988
	Next Spring an Oriole - 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.	Fiction, Michigan History	Children	New York : Random House	1987
	The Pathless Woods : Ernest Hemingway's Sixteenth Summer in Northern Michigan	Fiction, Michigan	Children, Teen	New York : Lippincott	1981
	A Time to Keep Silent - After her mother's death, 13-year-old Clair refuses to speak and her minister father moves them from their comfortable existence to the wilds of northern Michigan to start a small mission and to begin a new life.	Fiction, Michigan	Teen	New York : Putnam	1979
	A Clearing in the Forest - An aging widow and a neighboring youth join forces to wage battle against a powerful company that threatens to destroy the northern Michigan woods where they live.	Fiction, Michigan	Children, Teen	New York : Putnam	1977

What is the aim or goal of your writing: I write because I can't not write. Any success I have had is because I have had a passion for my subject.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: Yes

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

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Gloria Whelan Papers are at the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the The University of Southern Mississippi. Contains material from 1976 to 2002. http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/degrum/public_html/html/research/findaids/DG1150f.html

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