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Jacqueline Woodson was the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jacqueline Woodsons first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories. It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat--by themselves, with no adults to listen in. There, in the room they soon dub the ARTT Room (short for A Room to Talk), they discover its safe to talk about whats bothering them--everything from Estebans fathers deportation and Haleys fathers incarceration to Amaris fears of racial profiling and Ashtons adjustment to his changing family fortunes. When the six are together, they can express the feelings and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world. And together, they can grow braver and more ready for the rest of their lives.About the AuthorJacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature. She received the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and 2018 Childrens Literature Legacy Award. Her National Book Award- winning memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, was a New York Times bestseller and received the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award and a Sibert Honor. Her adult book Another Brooklyn was a National Book Award finalist. Author of over two dozen books for young readers, shes won four Newbery Honors, four National Book Awards, and two Coretta Scott King Awards. Her books include Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster; and Miracles Boys, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. She also received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and the Jane Addams Childrens Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
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Magazin: Elefant.ro
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