Jazmin's Notebook

by Nikki Grimes

Overview

Jazmin Shelby was "born with clenched fists"-which is okay, since she's got a lot of fighting ahead of her. Her dad died a couple of years back, and now that her mom's in the hospital, it's just her and her big sister, CeCe. But that's fine by Jazmin. She's got her friends, her school, lots of big plans for the future-and a zest for life and laughter that's impossible to resist.

A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
A Booklist Editors' Choice Book
A Child Study Children's Book Committee Children's Book of the Year

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141307022
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	291,998
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.69(h) x 0.31(d)
Lexile:	910L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Nikki Grimes is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of dozens of children’s and young adult books as well as a poet and journalist.
 
Among the many accolades she has received are the Golden Dolphin Award (2005),the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children (2006), the Coretta Scott King Award (2003) for Bronx Masquerade, and the Horace Mann Upstanders Award (2011) for Almost Zero: A Dyamonde Daniel Book. Additionally, her book Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope (illustrated by Bryan Collier) was a New York Times bestseller, and she was acknowledged as an NAACP Image Award Finalist in 1993 for her book Malcolm X: a Force for Change. Her books Meet Danitra Brown (illustrated by Floyd Cooper), Jazmin's Notebook, Talkin' About Bessie (illustrated by E.B. Lewis), Dark Sons, The Road to Paris, and Words with Wings were each awarded Coretta Scott King Honors. Visit her online at www.nikkigrimes.com.

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copyright ?1998 by Nikki Grimes published by Dial Books for Young Readers A Member of Penguin Putnam Inc. - excerpt (pages 14-25)FOR SALEI pass the used-goods store peek at the bronzed baby shoes useless and dusty in the window.
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