Eric Walters
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Eric Walters (b. March 3, 1957) is one of Canada's leading authors of young adult fiction, and the only three-time winner of the Silver Birch Award (a children's book award in the province of Ontario, created in 1994 by the Ontario Library Association).
He was born and raised in Toronto’s west end, which is a rather poor section of Toronto. When Eric was about 10 to 15-years-old, he wanted to be a teacher; at the time there were few jobs for teachers, but by the time he grew up the market was more open. In college, he wanted to be a psychologist and got an honours degree in psychology in 1979 from York University. After he graduated from York, he wanted to pursue the life of a teacher; therefore he went to University of Toronto to get his Bachelor of Education. He is now employed as a writer of young adult fiction, and a crisis social worker with Credit Valley Hospital. He has stated that he ran with a street gang until he was 15.
Eric first started writing when he noticed that his grade five class are apathetic to reading, to solve this problem, he wrote a book called, Stand Your Ground, which features the neighborhood, the school and some of his students. Eric Walters has a series of eight basketball books and counting, and the main characters are Nick and Kia, who are ten-year olds who play on rep-teams for Mississauga.
After that, he published thirty-two more novels, and a few scheduled for the coming years. He talked to 500,000 children in Mississauga, Ontario.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Novels
- Stand Your Ground (1994)
- STARS (1996)
- Trapped in Ice (1997)
- Diamonds in the Rough (1998)
- War of the Eagles (1998)
- Stranded (1998)
- The Hydrofoil Mystery (1998)
- Visions (1999)
- Tiger by the Tail (1999)
- The Money Pit Mystery (1999)
- Caged Eagles (2000)
- The Bully Boys (2000)
- Rebound (2001)
- Northern Exposures (2001)
- Tiger in Trouble (2001)
- Camp X (2002)
- Ricky (2002)
- Tiger Town (2002)
- Royal Ransom (2003)
- Run (2003)
- Grind (2004)
- Overdrive (2004)
- I've Got an Idea (2004)
- Camp 30 (2004)
- Death by Exposure (2004)
- The True Story of Santa Claus (2004) (with daughter Christina Walters)
- Elixir (2005)
- Tiger Trap (2005)
- Black and White (2005)
- The Falls (2006)
- We All Fall Down (2006)
- Stuffed (2006)
- Shattered (2006)
- House Party (2007)
- Safe As Houses (2007)
- Boot Camp (2007)
- Bifocal (2007) (with Deborah Ellis)
- Laggan Lard Butts (2007)
- Sketches (2008)
[edit] Basketball novel series
- Three on Three (1999)
- Full Court Press (2000)
- Hoop Crazy (2001)
- Long Shot (2001)
- Road Trip (2002)
- Off Season (2003)
- Underdog (2004)
- Triple Threat (2005) (with Jerome Williams)
- Boot Camp (2007) (with Jerome and Johnnie Williams)
[edit] Non-fiction
- Improve Your Child's Spelling 1 (1991) (with Norm Rippon)
- Improve Your Child's Spelling 2 (1993) (with Norm Rippon)
