Jennifer Bryant, Author . Knopf $15.95 (166p) ISBN 978-0-375-83259-8
Bryant's (The Trial
) tale of a quiet, observant 13-year-old unfolds as a free verse journal. Most of the other kids on the "At Risk" list have "substance abuse" next to their names, but beside Georgia McCoy's name the...
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Jennifer Bryant, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-375-82752-5
In a series of often hard-hitting free-verse poems, Bryant's first novel describes the 1935 trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, alleged kidnapper of the baby of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Many of the plot conventions feel a bit convenient,
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Jennifer Bryant, Author Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5115-4
Bryant brings the life of the great writer and Christian spiritual leader Thomas Merton to the fore in this biography for young adults. From Merton's nomadic childhood and partying college days to his eventual entry into the Gethsemani Abbey (in...
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Jen Bryant, illus. by Melissa Sweet. Knopf, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-86712-5
The team behind the Caldecott Honor book A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams returns with a rewarding picture-book biography of self-taught African-American artist Horace Pippin. As a child, Pippin drew pictures at every...
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Jen Bryant, illus. by Melissa Sweet. Eerdmans, $17.50 (42p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5385-1
The award-winning team behind A River of Words takes on the story of British physician Peter Mark Roget, author of the eponymous thesaurus. Bryant draws a clear line from the dislocations of Roget’s youth—the death of his father in 1783 and the...
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Jen Bryant, illus. by Boris Kulikov. Knopf, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-449-81337-9
After an accident in 1819 left a young Louis Braille blind, he traveled to Paris at age 10 to study at the Royal School for the Blind, where he was disheartened to discover that the books available for children like him fell far short of his hopes: “
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Jennifer Bryant, Author, Bethanne Andersen, Illustrator , illus. by Bethanne Andersen. Eerdmans $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5217-5
This picture-book look at Georgia O'Keeffe imagines the seeds planted in childhood that blossomed into her career as an artist. On her family's farm in Wisconsin, young Georgia is drawn to the fleeting shapes and images that pass before her...
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