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Personal biography of Meg Cabot, author. Learn all about Meg and her books.

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Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer of books for adults, children, and adolescents. She is best known for her National Book Award-Winning memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. Her picture books The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly were NY Times Bestsellers. After serving as the Young People’s Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress for 2018–19. She was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2020. Later that same year, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.

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Grace has a new podcast! Kids Ask Authors is podcast where she and a guest author answer kid questions! Also, kids can submit their own book reviews and jokes!
Grace also is sharing videos on her youtube channel! She reads from her books and teaches how to draw Chinese dragons, tigers and more!

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Grace has a new podcast! Kids Ask Authors is podcast where she and a guest author answer kid questions! Also, kids can submit their own book reviews and jokes! Grace also is sharing videos on her youtube channel! She reads from her books and teaches how to draw Chinese dragons, tigers and more!

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If you were looking for a different James Howe, may I invite you to stick around just a little longer? I'm sure he won't mind - whoever that other James Howe is - if you spend a little time getting acquainted with this one.

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Author | Speaker | Producer | Poet | Kwame Alexander

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Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, producer and #1 New York Times Bestselling author of 38 books, including AN AMERICAN STORY, THE DOOR OF NO RETURN, BECOMING MUHAMMAD ALI

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Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

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In the beginning, there was a boy. A distracted, disruptive boy - a bad boy, his teachers said. A tall, athletic boy who fought with other kids and threw books around the classroom and talked when he wasn't supposed to. A boy who stumbled over his words but moved with perfect grace on the basketball court.

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A New York Times Bestseller A National Book Award FinalistAn IndieBound BestsellerThis breathtaking, full-color illustrated fantasy is inspired by Chinese folklore, and is a companion to the Newbery Honor winner Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.Pinmei's gentle, loving grandmother always has the ...

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A Newbery Honor WinnerA New York Times BestsellerThis stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl n...

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From bestselling author Grace Lin comes the companion to the Newbery Honor winner Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and the National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver.The moon is missing from the remote Village of Clear Sky, but only a young boy named Rendi seems to notice!

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Life Is Like a Musical: How to Live, Love, and Lead Like a Star

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A Self-Help Guide--with Jazz Hands! Life is Like a Musical features 50 wry, witty tips on getting ahead in life and love--all learned in the showbiz trenches. "Hilarious, wise, and one-of-a-kind. This book is so damn brilliant I'm surprised it didn't already exist." -- Sarah Knight, bestselling a...

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"The Nate series by Tim Federle is a wonderful evocation of what it's like to be a theater kid. Highly recommended." -Lin-Manuel Miranda, star and creator of the musical, Hamilton Winner of the Lambda Literary Award Encore! Nate Foster's Broadway dreams are finally c...

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What if the bomb had actually been dropped? What if your family was the only one with a shelter?In the summer of 1962, the possibility of nuclear war is all anyone talks about. But Scott's dad is the only one in the neighborhood who actually prepares for the worst.

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When Dan and his family go from middle class to homeless, issues of injustice rise to the forefront in this relatable, timely novel from Todd Strasser that VOYA calls "poignant," "darkly humorous," and "exceptionally thought-provoking."It seems like Dan has it ...

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Todd Strasser's acclaimed account of school violence that Kirkus Reviews calls "vivid, distressing, and all too real."For as long as they can remember, Brendan and Gary have been mercilessly teased and harassed by the jocks who rule Middletown High. But not anymore. Stealing a s...

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From Todd Strasser, a "truly shocking" (Kliatt) account of the prison-style workings of teen boot camps.Garrett is an average fifteen-year-old, except that he's in love with an older woman. Even though Garrett gets good grades and hasn't had any real discipline problems, h...

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"A powerful and disturbing look at the downward spiral of despair that remains too common for too many teens (School Library Journal)."Her street name is Maybe. She lives with a tribe of homeless teens-runaways and throwaways, kids who have no place to go other than the cold cit...

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In a gripping novel with a plot pulled from the headlines, Todd Strasser turns his attention to gang life in the inner-city projects. DeShawn is a teenager growing up in the projects. Most of his friends only see one choice: join up to a gang.

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Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of many award-winning books, including Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks and more.

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Jason has won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent for his first work of prose and seven more novels followed in the next four years.

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Brown Girl Dreaming

Brown Girl Dreaming tells the story of my childhood, in verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, I always felt halfway home in each place. In these poems, I share what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and my growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
It also reflects the joy of finding my voice through writing stories, despite the fact that I struggled with reading as a child. My love of stories inspired and stayed with me, creating the first sparks of the writer I was to become.

Where it takes place:

Columbus, Ohio, Greenville, South Carolina and Brooklyn, New York

Where I wrote it:

In all of those places but mostly in Brooklyn.

Why I wrote it:

I wanted to understand who my mom was before she was my mother and I wanted to understand exactly how I became a writer. So I started researching my life, asking relatives and talking to friends - and mostly, just letting myself remember.

Beneath a Meth Moon

Laurel Daneau has moved on to a new life, in a new town, but inside she's still reeling from the loss of her beloved mother and grandmother after Hurricane Katrina washed away their home. Laurel's new life is going well, with a new best friend, a place on the cheerleading squad and T-Boom, co-captain of the basketball team, for a boyfriend. Yet Laurel is haunted by voices and memories from her past.

Where it takes place:

Pass Christian, Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi and in the Midwest.

Where I wrote it:

In Park Slope, Brooklyn, and at the Macdowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire

Why I wrote it:

I wanted to understand why someone would get involved in a drug that could ruined their life. And I wanted to understand the devastation of Katrina. Long after the news stopped reporting about it, people were still struggling. Laurel's story is a hopeful one because I wanted to believe people survived hard circumstances and were able to move on.

Between Madison And Palmetto

When Maizon returns to Brooklyn from Blue Hill, the boarding school she's been attending, she's not sure if she and Margaret will still be best friends.

Where it takes place:

In the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York

Where I wrote it:

In Bushwick and in Provincetown, Massachusetts

Why I wrote it:

A lot of readers wrote and asked what happened after Maizon got home from boarding school. I decided I'd write a trilogy.

Maizon At Blue Hill

Maizon Singh is one of the few black girls at an all-white boarding school. She doesn't feel like she belongs there and misses Madison Street and the family and friends she left behind.

Where it takes place:

In Connecticut in the fictionalized town of Canturbury

Where I wrote it:

In the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn, New York and in San Francisco, California

Why I wrote it:

I wanted to write Maizon's side of the story and about what happens when she went away to boarding school. It was the first book I wrote that really dealt with racism.

Last Summer With Maizon

Margaret and Maizon are best friends. When Margaret's father dies and Maizon gets accepted to a boarding school in Connecticut, Margaret wonders if life on Madison Street will ever be the same again.

Where it takes place:

In the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York

Where I wrote it:

In the apartment I grew up in on Madison Street in Brooklyn, New York and in Garden City, Long Island.

Why I wrote it:

Growing up, there were very few books about black girls and even fewer about people like the people I knew in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. I wanted to write about the people I loved and the neighborhood that had been my home for many years. Last Summer With Maizon was my first novel.

Feathers

"Feathers" takes place in the 1970s and begins when a boy walks into the classroom who is very different from the other kids there. Or maybe he isn't so different...

Where it takes place:

I never name the place but was imagining this point between the Brooklyn and Queens border - right near Kennedy Airport.

Where I wrote it:

Here in Brooklyn and over the year while I was on the road.

Why I wrote it:

"Feathers" is a book I wrote because I wanted to write about the many ways people find Hope in the world.

Awards

Peace Locomotion

Lonnie and his sister Lili are in foster care after the death of their parents. They live with separate families and this book is Lonnie's letters to Lili that he writes to stay connected to her and as he says "to be the rememberer" while they are living separately.

Where it takes place:

In Brooklyn.

Where I wrote it:

In Brooklyn and also parts were written on planes as I traveled.

Why I wrote it:

I wanted Lonnie and Lili to find peace - within themselves and in the bigger world. The book started out being about one kind of peace and then became about the many ways we search for and eventually all kinds of peace.

Awards

Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Master List for 2011-2012, Awarded by Florida State

Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award

Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards

Keystone to Reading Book Award

North Carolina Children's Book Award

Kansas State Reading Circle

Capitol Choices, Virginia

Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award

Behind You

Even after he dies, Jeremiah and the people he loved can't seem to figure out how to move on. Told in vignettes, this is the story of two teenagers who suddenly lose each other.

Where it takes place:

Fort Greene, Brooklyn and Manhattan's Upper West Side

Where I wrote it:

At home in Brooklyn and in Manhattan

Why I wrote it:

I had written a book called If You Come Softly. Once I finished that book, the characters still haunted me. Then 911 happened and I was faced with trying to figure out how we move on when we lose people so suddenly. I started thinking about it all and this book began.

Awards

2005 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

YALSA Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults for 2005

New York Public Library Best Book for Teens 2005

ALA Best Book for Young Adults

If You Come Softly

If You Come Softly is about Jeremiah who is fifteen and black and Ellie who is fifteen and white. They meet at a private school and fall in love and then have to deal with how society treats them because they're an interracial couple. It was inspired by a poem by Audre Lorde that begins:
If you come softly
as the wind within the trees
you may hear what I hear
see what sorrow sees.
Where it takes place:

In the Washington Heights section of Manhattan

Where I wrote it:

Whidbey Island which is off the coast of Seattle, Washington and in Olivebridge, NY

Why I wrote it:

I wrote If You Come Softly because I wanted to write about first love-how hard it can be and how great it is. I also wanted to write about being fifteen because I remember that age very well. As I was writing it, I came across some lines from Romeo and Juliet and realized this story was a modern-day Romeo and Juliet. The enemies to Jeremiah and Ellie's love are racism, police brutality and people's general stupidity. I also wanted to write about Time-about how fleeting it is, how important it is to love who you want and be who you want in the moment so that you don't look back and think "I should have..." or "I could have..."

Awards

ALA Best Book for Young Adults

Award Nominee (all readers)

2001 Detroit Public Library Author's Day Award

Miracle's Boys

Three brothers who are orphaned by the death of their mother, are trying to get by. Twelve year old Lafayette tells the story of what happens to him and his older brothers, fifteen year old Charlie and twenty-one year old Ty'ree, after Charlie comes home from a juvenile detention center where he has spent time for armed robbery.

Where it takes place:

In the Washington Heights section of Manhattan

Where I wrote it:

Whidbey Island which is off the coast of Seattle, Washington and in Olivebridge, NY

Why I wrote it:

I wanted to write a story that had no girls in it. I also wanted to write about how hard it is to be poor sometimes. I also wanted to write about how hard it is to lose someone you love-in this case, both parents-and how that pain starts shaping itself into other things sometimes like anger and isolation. Most of all, I wanted to write about three brothers who are funny, handsome, searching, and caring of one another.

Awards

Coretta Scott King Award

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

ALA Best Book for Young Adults

Sequoyah Book Award Master List, Young Adult Category

2003-2004 Sunshine State Master List (grades 6-8)

2003-2004 Georgia Children's Book Award nominee

From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun

Thirteen year old Melanin Sun has a great life with his single mom. He feels like she's the person he can tell anything to. His friends think she's beautiful and tease Melanin about how they'd love to go on dates with her. Then one day, his mother brings a white woman named Kristin home. Melanin dislikes Kristin the minute he meets her and because of her, his life with his mother will never be the same again.

Where it takes place:

In the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York

Where I wrote it:

In Provincetown, Massachusetts and in California's Napa Valley

Why I wrote it:

This was the first time I wrote from the point of view of a boy. I wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do it. I also wanted to write about different kinds of love and different kinds of families because I hadn't seen many books written about what Melanin goes through. Just like with If You Come Softly, I wanted to say that it's important to love who you want as long as you're happy.

Awards

Lena

When things get too bad at home, twelve year old Lena and her eight year old sister, Dion, run away. Dressed as boys to make it easier for them on the road, they travel from Ohio to Kentucky looking for a safe place to call "home".

Where it takes place:

West Virginia and Kentucky

Where I wrote it:

In the Park Slope section of Brooklyn and in Peterborough, New Hampshire at the MacDowell Colony.

Why I wrote it:

I wrote Lena because I got so many letters asking me about the end of I Hadn't Meant To Tell You This. I hadn't planned to write a sequel but I'm glad I did.

The House You Pass On The Way

Evangeline (nickname Staggerlee) meets her adopted cousin Trout for the first time the summer they are both thirteen. The two girls form a strong friendship and learn a lot from each other about what it means to be the children of heroes and what it means to grow up in a world that isn't tolerant.

Where it takes place:

In South Carolina in the fictionalized town of Sweet Gum

Where I wrote it:

In Provincetown, Massachusetts and in Brooklyn, New York

Why I wrote it:

I wanted to write about the south-something I hadn't really done before. I wanted to write about friendship and I wanted to write about what it means to love someone-how painful and confusing that can be.

The Dear One

Rebecca is fifteen and pregnant and poor. Afeni is twelve, wealthy, spoiled, and doesn't care to have a pregnant girl living in her house even if the girl is the daughter of her mother's best friend from college. From day one, the girls hate each other and must figure out how to live under the same roof with each other and all of their opposing ideas.

Where it takes place:

In Pennsylvania in the fictionalized town of Seton

Where I wrote it:

In Harlem, New York and in Brooklyn, New York

Why I wrote it:

The Dear One was the second novel I ever wrote. I wanted to write about teenage pregnancy. At the time I was working with runaway and homeless young people-many of whom were pregnant. I wanted to write a novel that spoke to them.

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Brown Girl Dreaming Brown Girl Dreaming tells the story of my childhood, in verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, I always felt halfway home in each place. In these poems, I share what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and my growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.

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Matt de la Peña is the New York Times bestselling, Newbery Medal winning author of seven young adult novels (including Mexican WhiteBoy, We Were Here and Superman: Dawnbreaker) and five picture books (including Last Stop on Market Street and Love).

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Here are some selected titles by Walter Dean Myers. To view his complete bibliography, click here.

Just Write: Here's How!
By Walter Dean Myers

Myers offers a wealth of advice that is professional and pragmatic and often couched in the context of his own work... [He] gives his readers the same opportunity through his advice and his large-hearted example. - Booklist

We Are America
By Walter Dean Myers
Illustrations by Christopher Myers

What is it to be an American? To live in a strange and beautiful land of complexity, with a tumultuous history of epic proportions, among the people who were here first, who came after, who will come tomorrow. Walter and his son Christopher Myers, a Caldecott Honor artist, celebrate the freedom dream that is America: our struggles, our ideals, and our hope that we can live up to them.

Lockdown
By Walter Dean Myers

A National Book Award Finalist, Lockdown is described as a: "A moving tale of a kid who may have made a mistake but who still deserves the modest future he seeks. Refreshingly avoids cliché," in a starred review in the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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Dope Sick
by Walter Dean Myers

The itch starts when things get too heavy for Lil J. Skin popping or stealing pain pills from his mom help him relax. But Lil J's focus is wandering because money is short, and his man Rico knows a way to make some quick cash. It's supposed to be an easy deal, but it isn't so simple when the buyer is an undercover cop.

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Sunrise Over Fallujah
by Walter Dean Myers

In this portrayal of an "Operation Iraqi Freedom" soldier, Myers displays the ugly realities of the battlefield, while honoring the heroics of those in the trenches. "An astonishing book." The New York Times
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Jazz
by Walter Dean Myers
Illustrations by Christopher Myers

"A cycle of 15 poems and vivid, expressive paintings celebrate that most American genre of music: jazz. Myers père presents readers with poems that sing like their subject... Myers fils uses bold colors and lines straight from the muralists of the '30s to create his illustrations... This offering stands as a welcome addition to the literature of jazz."- Kirkus

Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
by Walter Dean Myers

A complexity of experiences comes through vividly in the varying poetic styles... The rich and exciting text will give readers a flavor of the multiplicity of times and peoples of Harlem... Use this title to supplement classroom presentations, for individual or choral recitation, or simply suggest that teens find a good chair, get comfortable, and listen to what the people have to tell them." - School Library Journal
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Bad Boy
by Walter Dean Myers

In a memoir that is gripping, funny, and ultimately unforgettable, Walter Dean Myers travels back to his roots in the magical world of Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Here is the story of one of the most distinguished writers of young people's literature today. "A thoughtful, cautionary and inspiring tale." - Chicago Tribune

Monster
by Walter Dean Myers

Winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award, a National Book Award Finalist, A Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner and a New York Times Bestseller, Monster tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial. Presented as a screenplay of Steve's own imagination, and peppered with journal entries, the book shows how one single decision can change our whole lives.
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Harlem
by Walter Dean Myers
Illustrated by Christopher Myers

This Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor book by father and son team celebrates Harlem, which they perceive both as a city and a "promise of a better life," in quite different but wonderfully complementary ways.
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Somewhere in the Darkness
by Walter Dean Myers

In this Newbery Honor book, a teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be an often painful, time of discovery for them both. "Whether from urban or rural backgrounds, single or double parent families, readers will find this universal journey of self-discovery gratifying." School Library Journal

Now is Your Time:
The African American Struggle for Freedom
by Walter Dean Myers

Since they were first brought as captives to Virginia, the people who would become African Americans have struggled for freedom. Thousands fought for the rights of all Americans during the Revolutionary War, and for their own rights during the Civil War. Here is African-American history, told through the stories of the people whose experiences have shaped and continue to shape the America in which we live. A Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner.

Fallen Angels
by Walter Dean Myers

This Coretta Scott King Award Winner is a coming-of-age tale set in the trenches of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. This is the story of Perry, a Harlem teenager who volunteers for the service when his dream of attending college falls through. "A useful book for any literature tie-in with a history class studying war or racism, this work will assist students in gaining a real-life understanding of what occurs during such situations..." - Children's Literature
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From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars) (October 2017) "Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction" in Out of the Blue (August 2012) "The Protectionist" in What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur (September 2011) "Falling in Lust at the Jersey Shore" in Cosmo's Sexiest Stories Ever: Three Naughty Tales(August 2011) "Princess Prettypants" in Zombies Vs.