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1980–2016. Website. www .ritawg .com. Rita Williams-Garcia (born Rita Williams) is an American writer of novels for children and young adults . In 2010, her young adult novel Jumped was a National Book Award finalist for Young People's Literature. She won the 2011 Newbery Honor Award, [1] Coretta Scott King Award, [2] [3] and Scott O'Dell ...
The John Newbery Medal, frequently shortened to the Newbery, is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), to the author of "the most distinguished contributions to American literature for children". [ 1] The Newbery and the Caldecott Medal are ...
A Shiloh Christmas. Shiloh is a Newbery Medal -winning children's novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor published in 1991. The 65th book by Naylor, it is the first in a quartet about a young boy and the title character, an abused dog. Naylor decided to write Shiloh after an emotionally taxing experience in West Virginia where she encountered an ...
PZ7.S80857 WH 2009. When You Reach Me is a Newbery Medal -winning science fiction and mystery novel by Rebecca Stead, published in 2009. It takes place on the Upper West Side of New York during 1978 and 1979 and follows a sixth-grade girl named Miranda Sinclair. After Miranda finds a strange note, which is unsigned and addressed only to "M," in ...
9780375836909. Turtle in Paradise is a 2010 children's novel written by Jennifer L. Holm. [1] The book is a 2011 Newbery Honor Book and also won the Golden Kite Award. The main character, Turtle, is eleven years old and lives in Key West, Florida during the Great Depression. [citation needed] The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 is also mentioned in ...
Alex Ferron. . ( m. 2010) . Children. 1. Grace Lin (born May 17, 1974) is a Taiwanese-American children's writer and illustrator. She is a Newbery, Geisel, and Caldecott honoree, known for contributing to and advocating for Asian-American representation and diversity in children’s literature. She has published more than 25 books, all of which ...
Margi Preus is an American children's writer. She is a 2011 Newbery Honor winner and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Heart of a Samurai. [1] Her books have won multiple awards, honored as ALA/ALSC Notables, landed on many "best of" lists, featured on NPR, chosen for community reads, and translated into many languages.*.
Cynthia Kadohata(born July 2, 1956)[1]is a Japanese Americanchildren's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kirawhich won the Newbery Medalin 2005.[2] She won the National Book Award for Young People's Literaturein 2013 for The Thing About Luck. [3] Biography[edit] Kadohata was born in Chicago, Illinois.[1]