Karleen Bradford

Karleen Bradford (born December 16, 1936) is a Canadian children's author.

Bradford's novel Dear Canada: With Nothing But Our Courage is a historical novel about a Loyalist family in the United States after the American Revolution.

Personal
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Bradford moved to Argentina as a child. She returned to Canada to attend university, and after graduation, she spent 34 years in different parts of the world as a wife of a Foreign Service Officer. She currently resides in Owen Sound, Ontario.

Published Books

 * A Year for Growing (1977) - republished as Wrong Again Robby in 1983
 * The Other Elizabeth (1982)
 * I Wish There Were Unicorns (1983)
 * The Stone in the Meadow (1983)
 * The Haunting at Cliff House (1985)
 * The Nine Days Queen (1986)
 * Windward Island (1989) - winner of the 1990 Max and Greta Ebel Award
 * There Will be Wolves (1992) - winner of the 1993 Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award
 * Thirteenth Child (1994)
 * Animal Heroes (1995)
 * Write Now! (1996)
 * Shadows on a Sword (1996)
 * More Animal Heroes (1996)
 * Dragonfire (1997)
 * A different Kind of Companion (1998)
 * Lionheart's Scribe (1999)
 * Whisperings of Magic (2001)
 * Dear Canada: With Nothing But Our Courage: The Loyalist Diary of Mary MacDonald, Johnstown, Quebec, 1783 (2002)
 * Angeline (2004)
 * You Can't Rush a Cat (2004)
 * The Scarlet Cross (2006)
 * Dragonmaster (2009)