Tonya Bolden
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Tonya Bolden is the author of ten books, including "Strong Men Keep Coming", "The Family Heirloom Cookbook", & "33 Things Every Girl Should Know". She lives in Brooklyn, New York. (Bowker Author Biography)
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33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A. (2002) — Redacteur — 157 exemplaren
33 Things Every Girl Should Know: Stories, Songs, poems, and Smart Talk by 33 Extraordinary Women (1998) 148 exemplaren
Tell All the Children Our Story: Memories and Mementos of Being Young and Black in America (2002) 104 exemplaren
How to Build a Museum: Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016) 72 exemplaren
One Person, No Vote [A Young Adult Adaptation]: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally (2019) 68 exemplaren
Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll (2023) 29 exemplaren
Rites of Passage: Stories About Growing Up by Black Writers from Around the World (1994) 27 exemplaren
American Patriots: A Young People's Edition: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm (2003) 3 exemplaren
Quarterly Black Review of Books 1 exemplaar
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- Bolden, Tonya
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- 1959-03-01
- Geslacht
- female
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- USA
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- Princeton University (BA|Slavic Languages and Literature with a Russian Focus|Magna cum laude)
Columbia University (MA|Slavic Languages and Literature) - Beroepen
- editor
college teacher
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newsletter editor (toon alle 8)
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research and editorial assistant to William E Rice
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Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll (Informational Books for Younger Readers – 2023)
Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book (Informational Books for Younger Readers – 2022)
Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing (Informational Books for Older Readers – 2020)
Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man (Informational Books for Older Readers – 2018)
Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls (Informational Books for Older Readers – 2017)
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Both novels are written in an often fragmented style that I think could have made them good novels-in-verse if they'd been more lyrical. But I picked up each of these books not for the writing style but for the same reason regarding their content.
Both books feature Black American heroines and highlight aspects of Black American history that aren't as well-known or talked about as much as slavery, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s.
And the more Savannah learned along her journey, the more determined she became, the more inspired I became by the read.
As with the novel that precedes it, reading the ending Author's Note after finishing the story is a must.… (meer)