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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
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Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Kid Presidents, Kid Artists , and Kid Athletes now chronicles the lives of Kid Authors ! Here are true tales of famous writers, from long before they were famous-or even old enough to drive. Did you know: Sam Clemens (aka Mark Twain) loved to skip school and make mischief, with his best friend Tom, of course! A young J. R. R. Tolkien was bitten by a huge tarantula-or as he called it, "a spider?as big as a dragon." Toddler Zora Neale Hurston took...
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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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...
5) Jane Austen
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English
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Jane Austen's novels have inspired readers for centuries, and modern adaptations continue to captivate audiences today. While all of Austen's works have legions of fans, she's best known as the author of one of literature's great love stories: Pride and Prejudice. However, this novel is far more than a romance, and readers discover this as they're introduced to the sharp social commentary.
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Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Step into the world of Georgian England and learn more about the genteel life of this beloved author. Although Jane Austen's works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal recognition, today they are rarely out of print and have inspired movies, television shows and mini-series, literary anthologies, and many other adaptations all around the world. Her writing--principally her five novels--is a critique of the British landed...
10) Astrid Lindgren
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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...
12) L.M. Montgomery
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Publisher
Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the famous Canadian author of Anne of Green Gables . Born in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, Lucy Maud Montgomery lost her mother when she was very young. Left in the care of less-than-encouraging grandparents, she found comfort in reading, writing, and her imagination. When Maud grew up, she wrote about the childhood...
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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
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Women's History Month Classroom Resources
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Women's History Month Classroom Resources
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"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"--
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Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"A beautifully illustrated children's biography of Beverly Cleary, from her roots in Portland to her years as a librarian and an eventual children's book writer. The debut book in Little Bigfoot's new Growing to Greatness series of notable people from the Pacific Northwest"--
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Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood that shaped her into the groundbreaking science-fiction...
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Historically poets have been on the forefront of social movements. Woke is a collection of poems by women that reflects the joy and passion in the fight for social justice, tackling topics from discrimination to empathy, and acceptance to speaking out. With Theodore Taylor?s bright, emotional art, and writing from Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo and Olivia Gatwood, kids will be inspired to create their own art and poems...
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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,...
20) Maya's song
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This unforgettable picture book introduces young readers to the life and work of Maya Angelou, whose words have uplifted and inspired generations of readers. The author of the celebrated autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya was the first Black person and first woman to recite a poem at a presidential inauguration, and her influence echoes through culture and history. She was also the first Black woman to appear on the United States...
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