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Tonya Bolden is a critically acclaimed award-winning author/co-author/editor of more than two dozen books for young people. They include Inventing Victoria, Crossing Ebenezer Creek, which received five starred reviews; Finding Family, which received two starred reviews and was a Kirkus Reviews and Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year; Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl, a Coretta Scott King honor book and James Madison Book Award winner; MLK: Journey of a King, winner of a National Council of Teachers of English Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children; Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty, an ALSC Notable Children’s Book, CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, and winner of the NCSS Carter G. Woodson Middle Level Book Award. Tonya also received the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, DC’s Nonfiction Award. A Princeton University magna cum laude baccalaureate with a master’s degree from Columbia University, Tonya lives in New York City.
www.tonyaboldenbooks.com
Poetic, breathtaking, descriptive and fast-paced. . . . An excellent choice for YA historical fiction shelves.
School Library Journal, starred review, on INVENTING VICTORIA
Seamlessly weaves aspects of black history into the detailed narrative. . . . Victoria emerges as a fully realized character, a product of all her experiences. The depiction of Washington, D.C.'s African-American elite is rich and complex . . . A compelling and significant novel.
Kirkus Reviews, starred review, on INVENTING VICTORIA
Bolden captures the period with meticulous detail. . . . [An] engrossing coming-of-age story.
The Horn Book Magazine on INVENTING VICTORIA
The rich descriptions of people and life in early America will fascinate readers as the book introduces them to this widely overlooked population in history.
Booklist on INVENTING VICTORIA
Readers will fall in love with Bolden's gentle lyricism as she unflinchingly unfolds a difficult story.
Shelf Awareness, starred review, on CROSSING EBENEZER CREEK
Bolden . . . bravely concludes this concise, moving story with a historically accurate and horrifying ending.
Publishers Weekly, starred review, on CROSSING EBENEZER CREEK
The well-executed premise, a compelling love story, and unique historical details will appeal to fans of Ruta Sepetys’s<i> Salt to the Sea</i> . . . This moving and engrossing portrayal of a little-known historical tragedy belongs on all YA shelves.
SLJ, starred review, on CROSSING EBENEZER CREEK
A poetic, raw, and extraordinary imagining of a little-known, shameful chapter in American history.
Kirkus Reviews, starred review, on CROSSING EBENEZER CREEK
With keen insight, Bolden mines a lesser-known historical event and brings the human cost vividly to life . . . Bolden’s trenchant, powerful novel is a strong testament to the many lost lives that certainly did--and still do--matter.
Booklist, starred review, on CROSSING EBENEZER CREEK
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Tonya Bolden is a critically acclaimed award-winning author/co-author/editor of more than two dozen books for young people. They include Inventing Victoria, Crossing Ebenezer Creek, which received five starred reviews; Finding Family, which received two starred reviews and was a Kirkus Reviews and Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year; Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl, a Coretta Scott King honor book and James Madison Book Award winner; MLK: Journey of a King, winner of a National Council of Teachers of English Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children; Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty, an ALSC Notable Children’s Book, CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, and winner of the NCSS Carter G. Woodson Middle Level Book Award. Tonya also received the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, DC’s Nonfiction Award. A Princeton University magna cum laude baccalaureate with a master’s degree from Columbia University, Tonya lives in New York City.
www.tonyaboldenbooks.com