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Barthe Faith DeClements [1] (born October 8, 1920) [2] is an American author of children's and young adult books. [2]Her first novel, 1981's Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade, [3] won young reader awards from California, [4] Georgia, [5] and Ohio.
Spaceheadz is a multi-platform story, told through four books, multiple websites, integrated blogs, social media sites, videos, ads, and user-created content. The story reveals how three aliens from the planet Spaceheadz disguise themselves as 5th graders in Brooklyn in order to sign up 3.14 million and 1 Earthlings to be Spaceheadz and save Earth.
[9] It has inspired students to action, including a fourth-grade class that staged a silent film festival [12] and a group of fifth graders who turned the book into a 30-minute modern dance. [13] The Invention of Hugo Cabret follows a young orphan in Paris in the 1930s as he tries to piece together a broken automaton.
Gordon Korman (born October 23, 1963) is a Canadian author of children's and young adult fiction books. [1] Korman's books have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide over a career spanning four decades and have appeared at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list.
Cover of McGuffey's First Reader. The Eclectic Readers (commonly, but informally known as the McGuffey Readers) were a series of graded primers for grade levels 1–6. They were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and homeschooling.
Valerie Worth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where her father taught biology at Swarthmore College.In 1947, the family moved to Tampa, Florida for four years, and then spent a year in Bangalore, India. [1]
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Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 9, 1934) [1] is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books.