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Author
Publisher
Trafalgar Square
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In certain circles, her name inspires immediate recognition and pronouncements of a committed admiration that has likely spanned decades. As an author, Marguerite Henry was indeed remarkably prolific, with 59 books published, millions of copies sold, and nearly 80 years of her life spent writing them-or responding personally to the stacks of fan mail she received-at her typewriter. Her books, most meticulously researched historical fiction about...
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When students ask author René Saldaña, Jr. how one becomes a writer, he says, 'It’s complicated.' In this memoir written in verse for young adults, the author remembers his boyhood and the path that led to his becoming a reader, writer and scholar"--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsburg Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Ingmar Bergman once said that an artist should always have one work between himself and death. When renowned author Gail Godwin tripped and broke her neck while watering the dogwood tree in her garden at age eighty-five, a lifetime of writing and publishing behind her and a half-finished novel in tow, Bergman's idea quickly unfurled in front of her, forcing her to confront a creative life interrupted. In Getting to Know Death, Godwin shares what spoke...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Empowering and educational, this nonfiction picture book about James Weldon Johnson, an NAACP leader who wrote the uplifting poem "Lift Every Voice and Sing," shows how he led thousands of Black people in the Silent Protest Parade for civil rights down New York's Fifth Avenue.
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