In your book double dutch which character is most like you?

She's fun and high spirited

She is also the author of many books for teens, including the New York Times bestsellers Copper Sun, the 2007 Coretta Scott King Award winner, and We Beat the Street. She also wrote Forged by Fire, the 1998 Coretta Scott King Award winner, as well as Tears of a Tiger, winner of the CSK/John Steptoe New Talent Award, and The Battle of Jericho and November Blues, both Coretta Scott King Honor Books.

Ms. Draper explains how she came to write the Sassy series. “Several years ago I met a little girl, an avid reader, who was about eight or nine years old,” she says. “Something was missing in the books available to her.

I wanted to create a little girl with both spunk and sparkle, a child with grace and glitter. Sassy and her seemingly bottomless sack are ready to greet the world with power and pizzazz!”

Her father worked as the head waiter of a hotel, while her mother worked for the Cleveland Plain Dealer as a classified advertising manager. From an early age, little Sharon was exposed to books. Books were located throughout the house. Catherine Mills would read to her three children every night.

Sharon Draper was born in 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio, the oldest child of Victor and Catherine Mills.

2006 - 192 pages - Google eBook - PreviewIn one horrifying night, Andy's life changed forever.books.google.com - More editions

2010 - 304 pages - Google eBook - PreviewFrom award-winning author Sharon Draper comes Out of My Mind, the story of a brilliant girl that no one knows about because she cannot speak or write.books.google.com

Melody, a 10 year old girl with Cerebral Palsy so severe that she can neither speak nor move independently.

is a brilliant mind with a cutting wit.

Forged by Fire Summary:

As a teenager, Gerald finds success as a member of the Hazelwood Tigers basketball team, while Angel develops her talents as a dancer. Trouble still haunts them, however, and Gerald learns, painfully, that young friends can die and old enemies must be faced. In the end he must stand up to his stepfather alone in a blazing confrontation. Sharon M. Draper has interwoven characters and events from her previous novel, Tears of a Tiger, in this unflinchingly realistic portrayal of poverty and child abuse. It is an inspiring story of a young man who rises above the tragic circumstances of his life by drawing on the love and strength of family and friends.

ire is dangerous and powerful, and tragedy strikes.

I probably would have to write another book to answer your questions. I don't ever know what will happen to a character until the story takes me to that place.

You can create the answers yourself. Whatever you think probably happened, probably did, but even I'm not really sure.

You were supposed to be fifteen, but I had already read all the elementary things and was bored. The librarian knew me really well and so she gave me the special card, but she would check every time to make sure that I didn’t check out anything that was too mature for my tender years, but she was absent on Thursdays!

in the lives of the characters. Kids ask me all the time what’s my favorite book from childhood, but I don’t really remember because I read so many books.

But Sharon Draper, bestselling author and five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Literary Award, is among the group of writers who has such a passion for both her professions that she remains active in both in ways that would have most waving the white flag of surrender.