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Kaylee S

Author Chat with Sharon Draper | The New York Public Library - 0 views

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      about Sharon Draper
  • In your book double dutch which character is most like you?
  • She's fun and high spirited
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  • Probably Yolanda.
  • ou have traveled all over the world, do you have a favorite place that inspires your writing?
  • Ghana, West Africa. It was the inspiration for Copper Sun. I'd go back in a heartbeat. I loved it there.
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    about Sharon Draper
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Sharon M. Draper | Scholastic.com - 0 views

  • 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!”
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  • honored as the National Teacher of the Year and was selected as Ohio’s Outstanding High School Language Arts Educator and Ohio Teacher of the Year.
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    facts
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Sharon Draper - 0 views

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      more cool facts on Sharon Draper
  • 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.
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  • She described herself as someone who "inhaled books and knowledge."
  • According to Draper, "When I was a little girl, my parents saw me, and my brother and sister, as one of those bright flames of possibility.
  • Sharon grew up teaching anyone or anything she could find, from the kids in the neighborhood to her dogs and her dolls. When she reached fifth grade, Sharon was especially influenced by her teacher, Mrs. Kathadaza Mann, who taught Black history in the classroom as well as art, music, and classic literature. Sharon looked upon her fifth grade teacher as a role model.
  • she was a straight-A student who tackled almost all the books in her school library.
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    about Sharon Draper
Kaylee S

Amazon.com: Sharon M. Draper: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle - 0 views

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      a LOT more books to find and read
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    a LOT more books to find and read
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sharon draper - Google Search - 0 views

  • 2006 - 192 pages - Google eBook - PreviewIn one horrifying night, Andy's life changed forever.books.google.com - More editions
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      cool books to read
  • 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
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  • Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous, older man.
  • Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
  • Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harrassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.
  • Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.
  • A teenaged boy's death in a hazing accident has lasting effects on his pregnant girlfriend and his guilt-ridden cousin, who gives up a promising music career to play football during his senior year in high school.
  • As Kofi, Arielle, Dana, November, and Jericho face personal challenges during their last year of high school, a misunderstood student brings a gun to class and demands to be taken seriously.
  • Includes facts about hurricanes and sea turtles (p. 104-106).
  • hree eighth-grade friends, preparing for the International Double Dutch Championship jump rope competition in their home town of Cincinnati, Ohio, cope with Randy's missing father, Delia's inability to read, and Yo Yo's encounter with the ...
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Sharon Draper's Blog - 0 views

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      about the book "Out of My Mind"
  • 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.
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  • Her world suddenly opens up when she gets a computer with a voice program that allows her to speak for the first time.
  • she is perceived by other kids and adults, including teachers.
  • This is more than a book about a girl with special needs.
  • It holds up a mirror for all of us to see how we react to people with disabilities that make us uncomfortable.
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    book info.
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Welcome to the Official Site of Sharon Draper - 0 views

  • 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.
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  • he was fascinated by fire.
  • mother is taken from him.
  • A brutal stepfather with a flaming temper and an evil secret makes his life miserable.
  • The one bright light in Gerald's life is his little half sister, Angel, whom he struggles to protect from her father, Jordan Sparks, who abuses her, and from their mother, whose irresponsible behavior forces Gerald to work hard to keep the family together.
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    Forget by Fire/ written book
Kaylee S

Welcome to the Official Site of Sharon Draper - 0 views

  • 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.
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    why Sharon Draper wrote "tears of a Tiger"
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Interview with Sharon Draper | TitleTales | A Service of Book Wholesalers, Inc. - 0 views

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      an interview of Sharon Draper
  • 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.
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  • “I don’t want to sound like one of the 15-year-olds who write to me, but gee, I like your writing!” I really did sound like a kid when I wrote it.
  • That stack of books by everyone’s bed—I have that same stack: books I’ve read, books I’m going to read, books I need to read, books that people have told me are good books to read. My favorite author right now is Diane McKinney-Whetstone.
  • my mother used to read to me every single day.
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    interview with Sharon Draper
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sharon draper - Google Search - 0 views

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      all the books Sharon Draper has written
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    books of Sharon Draper
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      picture of Sharon Draper
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Sharon Draper « - 0 views

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      five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Literary award
  • 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.
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    Sharon Draper winnings
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Welcome to the Official Site of Sharon Draper - 0 views

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