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After Tupac and D Foster

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Zusatztext "A slender! note-perfect novel." — The Washington Post "The subtlety and depth with which the author conveys the girls' relationships lend this novel exceptional vividness and staying power." — Publishers Weekly   "Jacqueline Woodson has written another absorbing story that all readers—especially those who have felt the loss of a friendship—will identify with." — Children's Literature  "Woodson creates a thought-provoking story about the importance of acceptance and connections in life." — VOYA Informationen zum Autor Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her  New York Times  bestselling memoir  Brown Girl Dreaming , which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult books  Red at the Bone , a  New York Times  bestseller, and  Another Brooklyn , a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include Coretta Scott King Award winner Before the Ever After;   New York Times  bestsellers  The Day You Begin  and  Harbor Me ;  The Other Side ,  Each Kindness , Caldecott Honor book  Coming On Home Soon ; Newbery Honor winners  Feathers ,  Show Way , and  After Tupac and D Foster ; and  Miracle's Boys , which received the  LA Times  Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and a two-time winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York. Klappentext A Newbery Honor BookThe day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend's lives, the world opens up for them. Suddenly they're keenly aware of things beyond their block in Queens, things that are happening in the world-like the shooting of Tupac Shakur-and in search of their Big Purpose in life. When-all too soon-D's mom swoops in to reclaim her, and Tupac dies, they are left with a sense of how quickly things can change and how even all-too-brief connections can touch deeply.Includes a Discussion Guide by Jacqueline Woodson"A slender, note-perfect novel."-The Washington Post"The subtlety and depth with which the author conveys the girls' relationships lend this novel exceptional vividness and staying power."-Publishers Weekly "Jacqueline Woodson has written another absorbing story that all readers-especially those who have felt the loss of a friendship-will identify with."-Children's Literature "Woodson creates a thought-provoking story about the importance of acceptance and connections in life."-VOYA The summer before D Foster’s real mama came and took her away, Tupac wasn’t dead yet. He’d been shot five times—two in the head, two down by his leg and thing and one shot that went in his hand and came out the other side and went through a vein or something. All the doctors were saying he should have died and were bringing other doctors up to his room to show everybody what a medical miracle he was. That’s what th...

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Authors Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher Penguin Young Readers US
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 07.01.2010
 
EAN 9780142413999
ISBN 978-0-14-241399-9
No. of pages 192
Dimensions 137 mm x 210 mm x 12 mm
Series Penguin Young Readers Group
Subject Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Mankind

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