Badass Black Girl - Quotes, Questions, and Affirmations for Teens (Gift for teenage girl)

Explore the many facets of your identity through hundreds of big and small questions. MJ Fievre tackles topics such as family and friends, school and careers, body image, and stereotypes in this journal designed for teenage girls. By reflecting on these topics, readers confront the issues that can hold them back from living their lives.

About the author

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, M.J. Fievre moved to the United States in 2002.  She currently writes from Miami. M.J.’s publishing career began as a teenager in Haiti.  At nineteen years-old, she signed her first book contract with Hachette-Deschamps, in Haiti, for the publication of a Young Adult book titled La Statuette Maléfique. Since then, M.J. has authored nine books in French that are widely read in Europe and the French Antilles. In 2013, One Moore Book released M.J.’s first children’s book, I Am Riding, written in three languages: English, French, and Haitian Creole. In 2015, Beating Windward Press published M.J.’s memoir, A Sky the Color of Chaos, about her childhood in Haiti during the brutal regime of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Her latest book, Happy, Okay?: Poems about Anxiety, Depression, Hope, and Survival is scheduled for publication in December of 2019 by Books & Books Press, an imprint of Mango Publishing. Another book, Badass Black Girl is scheduled for publication in 2020. 
A long-time educator and frequent keynote speaker (Tufts University, Massachusetts; Howard University, Washington, D.C.; the University of Miami, Florida; and Michael College, Vermont; and a panelist at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, AWP), M.J. is available for book club meetings, podcast presentations, interviews and other author events. You can learn more about her and her work at her website: mjfievre.com

Summary

Explore the many facets of your identity through hundreds of big and small questions. MJ Fievre tackles topics such as family and friends, school and careers, body image, and stereotypes in this journal designed for teenage girls. By reflecting on these topics, readers confront the issues that can hold them back from living their lives.

Product details

• Authors: M J Fievre, M. J. Fievre, M.J. Fievre
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 16
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2020
• EAN: 9781642501728
• ISBN: 978-1-64250-172-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 268 g
• Illustrations: two-color design throughout, Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Badass Black Girl
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Mankind; Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Social Topics / Prejudice & Racism, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Girls & Women, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Inspirational & Personal Growth, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Women, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls & women, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Health & Daily Living / Maturing, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places & peoples