Brandy Colbert
Författare till Little & Lion
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Verk av Brandy Colbert
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Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 135 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Springfield, Missouri, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Utbildning
- Missouri State University (BA|Journalism)
- Yrken
- faculty
- Agent
- Tina Dubois (ICM Partners)
- Kort biografi
- Brandy Colbert is the award-winning author of several books for children and teens, including Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which was the winner of the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a finalist for the American Library Association's Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award. Her other acclaimed books include Pointe, The Only Black Girls in Town, and Stonewall Book Award winner Little & Lion. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, and her short stories and essays have appeared in several critically acclaimed anthologies for young people. She is on faculty at Hamline University's MFA program in writing for children, and lives in Los Angeles.
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Statistik
- Verk
- 13
- Även av
- 7
- Medlemmar
- 1,906
- Popularitet
- #13,504
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 74
- ISBN
- 90
- Språk
- 4
- Favoritmärkt
- 1
Alberta has two dads and her birth mom comes to visit. This is woven into the story nicely. It's part of who Alberta is, but it's not the focus of the story.
Edie's parents are going through a divorce, which is the reason she moves with her mom from Brooklyn to California. This is also well integrated into the story.
Laramie is maturing faster than Edie (she gets her first period early in the book). It's understandable why Laramie would want to be friends with a popular older girl, even though the older girl is a bully.
There is a whole big subplot about a 1950s diary that Edie and Alberta read and investigate. This injects some history and mystery into the book. There are parallels between Constance the diarist and Alberta feeling isolated and different.
I was a little disappointed that Alberta was so perfect. Her only flaw is that she always orders the same ice cream. At the end of the book, when she