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Full-text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals for high schools, community colleges, trade institutions. and the general public.
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This biography introduces readers to Cynthia Kadohata, the Newbery Medal winning author of Kira-Kira. She is also the author of A Million Shades of Gray, Outside Beauty, Weedflower, Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam, and other young adult and adult novels. Readers will learn about Kadohata's early life in the South, the influence of her Japanese heritage, her struggle to get short stories published in magazines, her switch to young adult fiction,...
2) Rick Riordan
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A brief biography of the author of the "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" series of books.
3) Dav Pilkey
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A profile of the author of the Captain Underpants series and countless other books, featuring Dav Pilkey's childhood, education and career.
4) Yuyi Morales
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This biography introduces readers to Pura Belpré Award winning author and illustrator Yuyi Morales. She has worked on Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book, Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book, Los Gatos Black on Halloween, My Abuelita, Ladder to the Moon, and other titles. Readers will learn about Morales's early years in Mexico, her immigration to the United States,...
5) E.B. White
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Information about the life and work of the famous children's writer E.B. White, author of Stuart Little, and Charlotte's Web.
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