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Susin Nielsen (born 1964) [1] is a Canadian author for children, adolescents and young adults. She received the 2012 Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature [2] and the 2013 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award [3] for her young adult novel The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen, which deals with the aftermath of a school shooting.
Alligator Pie (1974), poetry book by Dennis Lee; Alphabeasts (2002), a picture book by Wallace Edwards; Amazon Adventure (1949), a novel by Willard Price; Amelia and Me (2013), a novel by Heather Stem; Amos Daragon (2009), a series of fantasy fiction books by Bryan Perro; Ancient Thunder (2006), a fantasy picture book by artist and writer Leo Yerxa
Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc.The subsidiary was formed in 1998, when Pearson plc acquired Simon & Schuster's educational business and combined it with Pearson's existing education company Addison-Wesley Longman. [1]
[2] [5] Nine books named CLA Book of the Year for Children have also won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature, or the preceding Canada Council Children's Literature Prize, or earlier Governor General's Award for juvenile fiction (in all, conferred for English-language books from 1949 to 1958 and 1975 to present).
In 1996, News Corp sold the brand to Pearson PLC, the global publisher and owner of Penguin and the Financial Times. [10] Then Scott Foresman, along with more than 100 other educational brands, merged to become Pearson, with Scott Foresman adopting the new name, Pearson Scott Foresman. In February 2019, Pearson spun off its US-based K-12 ...
Larson sets his narrative over a short but momentous time span, from Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 to the firing on Fort Sumter five months later. Erik Larson's next book closely tracks the ...
Pearson plc is a multinational corporation, headquartered in the UK, focused on educational publishing and services.. Originating in 1844 and named S Pearson and Son by Samuel Pearson in 1856, what began as a small local civil engineering business in Yorkshire grew between 1880 and 1927 into a massive diversified international conglomerate under the subsequent leadership of Samuel's grandson ...
Brie Larson didn't know she'd embark on a clandestine operation when she first got her hands on a yet-to-be-published novel some three years ago that would become the premise of the new Apple TV+ ...