Sylvia Cassedy (January 29, 1930 – April 6, 1989) was an American novelist and poet, who is best known for her children's and young adult fiction.
[1] She graduated from Brooklyn College, and worked as a primary and secondary school teacher.
and Morton, and Lucie Babbidge's House feature preadolescent girls as protagonists, who use fantasy and play to improve their circumstances.
[2][4] Besides her young adult novels, Cassedy wrote two volumes of poetry.
[5] Cassedy's book Lucie Babbidge's House was named an honor book (runner-up) for the Phoenix Award of the Children's Literature Association in 2009.