Starting Over in Sunset Park - Hardcover

McGee, Lynn; Pelaez, Jose

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0884488446 ISBN 13: 9780884488446

Verlag: TILBURY HOUSE PUBL, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Caring for resilient cats helps eight-year-old Jessica, a newly arrived immigrant, adapt to life in New York City.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Lynn McGee's (Bronx, NY) published volumes of poetry include Tracks (2019), Sober Cooking (2016), and two award-winning chapbooks. Twice a Pushcart nominee, she is also a Best of the Net Award nominee and winner of a MacDowell fellowship and a Judith's Room Emerging Writers Award. She has taught college writing as well as adult literacy to immigrants and has led poetry workshops in New York City elementary schools as an artist-in-residence with the Teachers and Writers Collaborative. Lynn is a communications manager at Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York. Starting Over in Sunset Park is her first children's book

José Pelaez (Brooklyn, NY) founded Kitty in NY, an agency that provides temporary homes to the pets of traveling New Yorkers. Starting Over in Sunset Park explores issues he himself experienced while adjusting to a new life in America. He hopes the book will help children during difficult times of transition.

Bianca Diaz (Brooklyn, NY), a granddaughter of Mexican immigrants, grew up in Pilsen, a Mexican American neighborhood in Chicago. She believes that healthy communities can help people become happy, independent human beings; through art and education, she strives to be instrumental in the collaborative creation of these communities. Bianca is a 2018 Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Honor recipient for her book The One Day House.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: TILBURY HOUSE PUBL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0884488446
• ISBN 13: 9780884488446
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Zeichner: Diaz Bianca
• Anzahl der Seiten: 40
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