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Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"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...
28) The yellow house
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sarah M. Broom's [memoir] The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina."--
29) J.K. Rowling
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life, novels, and writing habits of J.K. Rowling, author of the popular "Harry Potter" novels.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard", hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other side by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common law. This is the author's powerful...
Series
Dictionary of literary biography volume 209
Publisher
Gale Group
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
35) Tomas Rivera
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a young Mexican American boy in a migrant worker family in Texas, future author Tomas Rivera enjoys going to the library and listening to his grandfather's stories.
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