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Jacqueline WoodsonWednesday, 7:10 p.m., March 23, sponsored by NEHS |
The NEHS sponsored speaker is the author of numerous award-winning books for young adults including Last Summer With Maizon, From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun and Miracle’s Boys. She has won two Newbery Honors, a Caldecott Honor, the 2001 Coretta Scott King Award, and the 2006 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in young adult writing, Woodson says, “I wrote on and everywhere. . . . I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.”