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Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: The inspiring true story of Nelle Harper Lee, the girl who grew up to write 'To Kill a Mockingbird', by Bethany Hegedus, acclaimed author of Grandfather Gandhi. Nelle Harper Lee grew up in the rocky red soil of Monroeville, Alabama. From the get-go she was a Spitfire. Unlike most girls, Nelle preferred overalls to dresses and climbing trees to tea parties. Nelle loved to watch her daddy try cases in the courtroom. And she and...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Children's Picture Books for Latnix/a/o Heritage Month 2022
Staff Picks: Women's History Month (Adult)
Women's History Month Classroom Resources
Staff Picks: Women's History Month (Adult)
Women's History Month Classroom Resources
Description
"From the author of MONSTER TRUCK and STARRING CARMEN comes a gorgeous and lyrical story about Pura Belpré, a Puerto Rican librarian who changed the world"--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A captivating picture book biography of a boy who imagined a world full of dragons and grew up to be beloved author J. R. R. Tolkien. John Ronald loved dragons. He liked to imagine dragons when he was alone, and with his friends, and especially when life got hard or sad. After his mother died and he had to live with a cold-hearted aunt, he looked for dragons. He searched for them at his boarding school. And when he fought in a Great War, he felt...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this book from the critically acclaimed, mulitmillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover how Astrid Lindgren grew up to become one of the world's best-loved authors, and the creator of the irresistible Pippi Longstocking. Little Astrid grew up on an old farm in Sweden. Her childhood was very happy, so happy that she never wanted to grow up. When she was four, her friend Edit read Astrid her first story. Suddenly, the entire...
8) My name is Gabriela: the life of Gabriela Mistral = Me llamo Gabriela : la vida de Gabriela Mistral
Author
Publisher
Luna Rising
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Outlines Gabriela Mistral's youth from a first person point-of-view.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tundra Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
How does a story begin? Sometimes it begins with a dream, and a dreamer. Mary is one such dreamer, a little girl who learns to read by tracing the letters on the tombstone of her famous feminist mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and whose only escape from her strict father and overbearing stepmother is through the stories she reads and imagines. Unhappy at home, she seeks independence, and at the age of sixteen runs away with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley,...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Animal Books and Anne Caroll Moore
JCLS-Bear Creek Cluster Staff Winter Reads Picks
Staff Picks: Women's History Month (Adult)
JCLS-Bear Creek Cluster Staff Winter Reads Picks
Staff Picks: Women's History Month (Adult)
Description
What is important about Margaret Wise Brown? In forty-two inspired pages, this biography artfully plays with form and language to vivdly bring to life one of greatest children?s book creators who ever lived: Margaret Wise Brown.
17) Write on!
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Katie forgets to read the new book of her favorite author, Nellie Farrow, who comes to class for a discussion, but when Katie turns into Nellie, the presentation seems doomed! Includes a recipe for S'More Bananas.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everyone in Folly Cove knows Virginia Lee as "Jinnee." With her magical wands she can draw whatever she imagines, but for her sons Aris and Michael, she draws the most wonderful characters of all, Big Machines with friendly names like Mary Anne, Maybelle, and Katy. Her marvelous magical wands can make anything move--even a cheerful Little House.
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