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Renée Watson (born July 29, 1978) is an American teaching artist and author of children's books, best known for her award-winning and New York Times bestselling young adult novel Piecing Me Together, [1] for which she received the John Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Josette Frank Award for fiction.
Joseph Aaron Coelho OBE FRSL is a British poet and children's book author who was Children's Laureate from 2022 to 2024. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . [ 1 ] In 2024, he was announced the winner of the Carnegie Medal for his YA novel The Boy Lost in the Maze.
Emre speaks to the British Library in 2022. Merve Emre is a Turkish-American author, academic, and literary critic. She is the author of nonfiction books Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (2017) and The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing (2018), and has published essays and articles in The Atlantic, Harper's ...
His books are frequent selections in the National Science Teachers Association's Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students. [ 3 ] Simon visits schools and talks to students and teachers, because it is contact with children, teachers, and librarians that has made him one of their favorite writers.
This is a list of notable books by young authors and of books written by notable writers in their early years. These books were written, or substantially completed, before the author's twentieth birthday. Alexandra Adornetto (born 18 April 1994) wrote her debut novel, The Shadow Thief, when she was 13. It was published in 2007.
A 2016 Bank Street Children's Book Committee's Best Book of the Year with an "outstanding merit" distinction. [19] 2018 Love: Loren Long: Carmela Full of Wishes: Christian Robinson: 2019 Superman: Dawnbreaker: 2021 Milo Imagines the World: Christian Robinson: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers A New York Times Bestseller. [30]
Klay grew up in Westchester, New York, the son of Marie-Therese F. Klay and William D. Klay. [2] His family background included several examples of public service. His maternal grandfather was a career diplomat and his father a Peace Corps volunteer; for years his mother worked in international medical assistance. [3]
Adam Johnson (born July 12, 1967) is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel, The Orphan Master's Son, and the National Book Award for his 2015 story collection Fortune Smiles.