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The book was a Newbery Honor book in 2008. [1] Robin Smith, of Book Page, said that the book filled him with "joy and hope." [3] Norah Piehl, of Kids Reads, reviewed the book saying, "Set against the music, politics and conflicts of the early 1970s, Jacqueline Woodson's exceptional new novel grounds universal ideas in a particular time and place."
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (7 May 1865 – 22 November 1948) was an English author and Liberal Party Member of Parliament. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel of courage and cowardice in wartime, The Four Feathers, and is also known as the creator of Inspector Hanaud, a French detective who was an early template for Agatha Christie's famous Hercule Poirot.
While still in her teens, Hinton became a household name [a] as the author of The Outsiders, her first and most popular novel, set in Oklahoma in the 1960s. She began writing it in 1965. [ 7 ] The book was inspired by two rival gangs at her school, Will Rogers High School , [ 8 ] the Greasers and the Socs , [ 3 ] and her desire to empathize ...
Anna-Marie McLemore is a Mexican-American author of young adult fiction magical realism, best known for their Stonewall Honor-winning novel When the Moon Was Ours, Wild Beauty, and The Weight of Feathers.
The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A. E. W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title. In December 1901, Cornhill Magazine announced the title as one of two new serial stories to be published in the forthcoming year. [ 1 ]
Like the book and film, “The Outsiders” musical is set in Tulsa in the 1960s and focuses on young Greaser Ponyboy Curtis, his two older brothers and their chosen family of “outsiders ...
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Aydin and his co-authors on March were recipients of the 2014 Coretta Scott King Book Award Author Honor, [26] the 2013 Gem Award (Independent Graphic Novel of the Year), [27] and the 2014 YALSA Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens. [28] In March 2014 Aydin and his co-authors received a Special Recognition award at the 2014 Robert F. Kennedy ...