Carole Boston Weatherford

Broschiertes Buch

Kin

Rooted in Hope

Illustrator: Weatherford, Jeffery Boston

Beschreibung

A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.

Autor

Carole Boston Weatherford has written many award-winning books for children, including Kin, illustrated by her son Jeffery and a Coretta Scott King Author Honor recipient; Box, which won a Newbery Honor; Unspeakable, which won the Coretta Scott King Award, a Caldecott Honor, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; ALA Notable Children’s Book You Can Fly; and Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square; Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement; and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Carole lives in North Carolina. Visit her at CBWeatherford.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Reprint edition
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Altersempfehlung: 10 bis 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781665913638
• ISBN-10: 1665913630
• Artikelnr.: 69976315