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Adonis is smart, intellectually gifted and born without legs; Autumn is strong, a great wrestler, and barely able to read in ninth grade--but Autumn is attracted to Adonis and determined to make him a part of her life whatever he or her best friend thinks.
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Interview With Sharon G. Flake
In each story, there is a young, bright boy willing to be as vulnerable, brilliant, inquisitive, and up-front as he needs to be to show his friends, community, and society at large exactly who he is and why his thoughts, relationships, and views of the world are richer, deeper, and more universal than many of us think. During a book launch program in Pittsburgh, my publicist brought together a few hundred young men who had been given the book.
Journal Article
You are not a cat!
Cat thinks Duck should stop meowing and start acting like a duck, but Duck doesn't want to be limited to acting like just one animal.
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My Grandparents' House.(Coretta Scott King Award)
Flake revisits her experiences of visiting her grandparents' house as a child and how it played an important part for her to win the Coretta Scott King Author Award. Her parents, grandparents, uncle, and aunt are the biggest influence on her literary style and voice. Their tales reminded her of the significance of family, cultural legacy, and history.
Magazine Article
Begging for Change
This sequel to Money Hungry (2001) stands on its own, as the tale of a young teenage girl struggling to do right by people in hard times. Raspberry Hill and her mother have a new home in a tough neighborhood. ...
Book Review
A University Literacy Festival: Connecting Authors Students From Title I Schools
The development of the idea of a university literacy festival to connect students from Title I schools with young adult authors is discussed. The evolution of the festival started with the discovery by teacher candidates in a literacy course in the College of Education (COE) at a university in southwestern Florida on the need for students to interact with authors to help engage them in reading and to see themselves as writers. Rallying together, a committee consisting of five teacher educators, two staff members, and several teacher candidate representatives from the university's COE gathered to establish an annual COE Literacy Festival. The festival involved a variety of activities for students, including author book signings, interactive workshops, literacy gaming, and read-alouds and hands-on activities offered by COE teacher candidates.
Magazine Article
LISTENING TO GRANDMA; JEWELL PARKER CRAFTS LOVING TRIBUTE TO HER NORTH SIDE CHILDHOOD
[Jewell Parker Rhodes] was raised in her grandmother's home on the North Side. The three-story, crumbling brick house wasn't as much of a problem as it was an opportunity for Grandma Ernestine to pass on some of life's most marvelous lessons to her precious Jewell. When Grandma Ernestine talks to Rhodes about \"that time of month,\" she doesn't go to the store for a 120-page book to help her explain. She conjures up stories from her own childhood. And the reader, along with Rhodes, believes grandmother when she tells her, \"You're a month of Sundays. A dozen years of thanksgiving ... connected to mother earth -- the big blue world -- the robins, sky, mountains, and dirt.\" Grandmother also threw a mean party. When she told Rhodes it was Block Party Day, everyone got busy. \"It was a door-to-door, porch- to-porch banquet of summertime foods: watermelon slices, carrots sliced with pineapple and raisins, and best of all, ice cream floating in Hawaiian Punch,\" Rhodes remembers.
Newspaper Article
Being Nice Is Not Enough
I THOUGHT BEING NICE WAS ENOUGH. THOUGHT GIVING of myself would mean others would give of themselves. Now, at the ripe age of 27, I know that in male/female relationships being nice is not nearly enough. For the last eight years I majored in pampering my men. I asked for very little. I wanted only to give, or so I thought.
Magazine Article
SO, WHAT NOW? POST-ELECTION OBSERVATIONS, PROCLAMATIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS FOR PROGRESS
What now? I could go on about Social Security, health care, education, the economy and the judiciary -- all issues that brought me to the president's side and a good agenda for his second term (and the same issues we have faced for a very long time) -- but I don't think such issues, important as they are in our talking about politics, have that much do with most people's choice for president in a time of crisis.
Newspaper Article