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Middle grade literature is literature intended for children between the ages of 8 and 12. While these books are sometimes grouped together with books for other age bands and collectively called "children's books", middle grade is distinct from picture books , early or easy readers, and chapter books , all of which are intended for younger ...
August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". [ 1 ] He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle (or The Century Cycle ) , which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the ...
Augusta Jane Wilson (née Evans; May 8, 1835 – May 9, 1909), was an American author of Southern literature and a supporter of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Her books were banned by the American Library Association in 1881. She was the first woman to earn US$100,000 through her writing. [1] Wilson was a native of Columbus ...
Each year, our team tests children's books of all types and genres with young readers for the annual Good Housekeeping Kids' Book Awards. Many newer picks on this list of the greatest children's ...
Just in time for Labor Day, here are five middle-grade novels featuring courageous protagonists who show us girls can face any challenges life throws at them. Zora & Me, by Victoria Bond and R.R ...
August Wilson, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who chronicled the Black experience in America, gets a stirring biography from Patti Hartigan. Playwright August Wilson was ahead of his time.
Playwright August Wilson dropped out of school in the ninth grade but continued to educate himself by spending long hours reading at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library. [11] Playwright George Bernard Shaw, Nobel Prize for Literature. He left formal education while still in his mid-teens to become a clerk at an estate firm.
Vermont sponsors two other statewide book awards determined by the votes of younger and older students. The Red Clover Book Award recognizes a picture book published two years earlier. Voters are children in grades K–4 who have read, or heard read aloud, all 10 books on the list.