Search - List of Books by April Halprin Wayland
April Halprin Wayland (born 1954) is an American children's and young adult author, poet, and teacher.
April Halprin Wayland was born and raised in Southern California and graduated from University of California, Davis with a degree in Human Development. She worked for the Rand Corporation and was the governess for a Hollywood celebrity before starting a company called Positive Education, Inc. with Elizabeth Howland. After traveling to Europe and working on kibbutz in Israel, she returned to Los Angeles, married Gary Wayland, worked in the corporate world and four years later left her job to write full-time. Her poetry has been included in numerous anthologies and magazines.
- New Year at the Pier: A Rosh Hashanah Story, Dial, 2009 (Sydney Taylor Book Award gold medal in the Younger Readers Category)
- Rabbittown, Scholastic, 1989
- The Night Horse, Scholastic, 1991
- It's Not My Turn To Look For Grandma!, Knopf, 1995
- Girl Coming In For A Landing...A Novel in Poems, Knopf, 2002
Total Books: 12