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The day you begin  Cover Image Book Book

The day you begin

Woodson, Jacqueline (author.). López, Rafael, 1961- (illustrator.).

Summary: Other students laugh when Rigoberto, an immigrant from Venezuela, introduces himself but later, he meets Angelina and discovers that he is not the only one who feels like an outsider.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0399246533 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780399246531 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
    print
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2018]
  • Badges:
    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 4 / 5.0
Subject: School children Fiction
Friendship Fiction
Schools Fiction
Immigrant children Fiction
Immigrants Fiction
Individuality Fiction

Available copies

  • 7 of 8 copies available at Kenton County.

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  • 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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Covington Branch E WOODS J (Text) 33126022969939 Easy Available -
Covington Branch E WOODS J (Text) 33126024654570 Easy Available -
Covington Branch E WOODS J (Text) 33126025994074 Easy Available -
Erlanger Branch E WOODS J (Text) 33126022062263 Easy Available -
Erlanger Branch Easy (Text) 33126025994090 Easy Available -
Erlanger Branch Easy (Text) 33126025994108 Easy Checked out 05/07/2024
Independence Branch E WOODS J (Text) 33126022969921 Easy Available -
Independence Branch Easy (Text) 33126025994082 Easy Available -

Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award, the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018–2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and in 2015, she was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. She received the 2014 National Book Award for her New York Times bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image Award, and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult books Red at the Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016 National Book Award finalist. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She is the author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include Coretta Scott King Award winner Before the Ever After; New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me; The Other Side, Each Kindness, Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster; and Miracle's Boys, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her contributions to young adult literature and a two-time winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

Rafael López won Pura Belpré medals for Drum Dream Girl and Book Fiesta, and has also received three Pura Belpré honors, two Américas Book Awards, and the 2017 Tomás Rivera Children's Book Award and Society of Illustrators Original Art Silver Medal. His work has been featured in Communication Arts, American Illustration Annual, Graphic Design USA and Huffington Post. He's a founder of San Diego's Urban Art Trail movement, created seven US Postal Stamps, and created official posters for the '08 and '12 Obama-Biden campaigns.

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