R. L. LaFevers
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R. L. LaFevers is an award-winning American children's book
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Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

 writer
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 from California
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. She is the author of the Theodosia
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos is a children's novel by R. L. LaFevers.-Plot:Theodosia Throckmorton, a clever and shrewd girl of sorts, has the harrowing and busy work of nullifying curses in her father's museum, where the darkest spells abound. However, it is delicate work, and time is...

 series (illustrated by Yoko Tanaka) and Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist
Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist
Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist is an ongoing series of chapter books for children written by R. L. LaFevers and illustrated by Kelly Murphy. The books chronicle the adventures of young Nathaniel "Nate" Fludd, a beastologist in training who travels the world in search of mythical beasts, with his...

 series (illustrated by Kelly Murphy
Kelly Murphy
Kelly Murphy is an American author and illustrator of children's books from Massachusetts. Murphy attended the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, her student work receiving distinction from the Society of Illustrators...

). R. L. La Fevers grew up in Los Angeles, California and now resides on a small ranch in Southern California with her husband, two sons, dog and cat. R. L. LaFevers has had a life-long love of animals, which often make appearances in her novels, and a sensitivity to ecological responsibility best apparent in the Nathaniel Fludd
Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist
Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist is an ongoing series of chapter books for children written by R. L. LaFevers and illustrated by Kelly Murphy. The books chronicle the adventures of young Nathaniel "Nate" Fludd, a beastologist in training who travels the world in search of mythical beasts, with his...

 books. She admits to a belief in the magical, which is also a driving element of stories such as Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos is a children's novel by R. L. LaFevers.-Plot:Theodosia Throckmorton, a clever and shrewd girl of sorts, has the harrowing and busy work of nullifying curses in her father's museum, where the darkest spells abound. However, it is delicate work, and time is...

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