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The Brown Bookshelf is honored to highlight Lesa Cline-Ransome in a Throwback/Flash Forward segment of 28 Days Later! THROWBACK As a child, Lesa Cline-Ransome dreamed of being an investigative journalist. She loved the idea of uncovering stories and crafting in-depth articles. Then, one summer she got a taste of the field through a workshop, and changed her mind. She longed for the freedom [ Read the full article… ]
The Brown Bookshelf is honored to highlight Kekla Magoon in a Throwback/Flash Forward segment of 28 Days Later! THROWBACK Kekla Magoon had long been a student of the Civil Rights Movement. She devoured stories about that period and believed deeply in non-violence. What would she have done back then? Kekla didn’t have to wonder. She knew: She would have [ Read the full article… ]
The Brown Bookshelf is honored to highlight Lamar Giles in a Throwback/Flash Forward segment of 28 Days Later! THROWBACK Lamar Giles grew up in a small, riverfront city in Virginia called Hopewell. It is a diverse community known for its busy ports. Like most towns in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Hopewell is highly decorated [ Read the full article… ]
The Brown Bookshelf is honored to highlight Janae Marks in a Throwback/Flash Forward segment of 28 Days Later! THROWBACK Janae grew up in the suburbs of New York City, where she always wrote. She started out writing illustrated autobiographical stories in kindergarten, and then journal entries, stories to submit to Seventeen Magazine‘s short story [ Read the full article… ]
The Brown Bookshelf is honored to highlight Shadra Strickland in a Throwback/Flash Forward segment of 28 Days Later! THROWBACK The title of her blog says it all: LIVING THE DREAM. A dream born many years ago, when she was just a child. A dream nourished by a supportive mother. A dream guided through instruction at [ Read the full article… ]
Has it been a week already? Last up for my Caribbean throwbacks is Lisa Stringfellow, who blogged for us just last year. Enjoy her post again! Question: Who is Lisa Stringfellow? Answer: Learn more about Lisa and her highly-anticipated middle grade novel, A Comb of Wishes (that publishes in just three days), below! The [ Read the full article… ]
I don’t think we’ve had any picture book folks yet, have we? Good thing we have Nadia up today. This post is from 2017. Since then, Nadia has added to the Malaika series, and has another picture book biography: A Likkle Miss Lou. While working with this talented author on her 28 Days Later spotlight, [ Read the full article… ]
I had the pleasure of meeting Alex at a Bocas Lit Fest in Trinidad a few years ago. He’s as lovely as his writing is amazing. His 2021 post is below. For the past few years, I’ve been raving about the Crongton Knights series — so funny, heartbreaking, relatable, and real. Alex Wheatle writes from [ Read the full article… ]