Full Product Details
Author: Chris Crowe
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint: Speak
Dimensions:
Width: 19.10cm
, Height: 0.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9780451478726
ISBN 10: 045147872
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 09 January 2018
Recommended Age: From 12 years
Audience:
Young adult
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A Jane Addams Book Award Honor bookAn Orbis Pictus recommended bookAn ALA Best Book for Young AdultsA School Library Journal Best Book This book is a mandatory addition to all libraries because of the impact and importance this crime had on our history. --School Library Journal Crowe's powerful, terrifying account does justice to its subject in bold, direct telling, supported by numerous archival photos and quotes from those who remember, including Emmett's mother. --Booklist Crowe pays powerful tribute to a boy whose untimely death spurred a national chain of events. --Publishers Weekly
A Jane Addams Book Award Honor book An Orbis Pictus recommended book An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A School Library Journal Best Book ""This book is a mandatory addition to all libraries because of the impact and importance this crime had on our history."" —School Library Journal ""Crowe's powerful, terrifying account does justice to its subject in bold, direct telling, supported by numerous archival photos and quotes from those who remember, including Emmett's mother."" —Booklist ""Crowe pays powerful tribute to a boy whose untimely death spurred a national chain of events."" —Publishers Weekly
Author Information
Chris Crowe was born in Danville, Illinois, and attended schools in Illinois, New Mexico, and California before his parents settled down in Tempe, Arizona, where he graduated from McKemy Junior High and McClintock High School. He attended Brigham Young University on a football scholarship (and played in the 1974 Fiesta Bowl) and earned a BA in English. He taught English at McClintock High for 10 years while attending Arizona State University part-time, earning his masters and doctorate degrees. He is the author of several books, most notably MISSISSIPPI TRIAL, 1955, which won several awards, including the 2003 International Reading Association's Young Adult Novel Award. His nonfiction book, GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER: THE TRUE STORY OF THE EMMETT TILL CASE, was an Jane Addams Honor book. His first children's book, JUST AS GOOD: HOW LARRY DOBY CHANGED AMERICA'S GAME, appeared in 2012. His newest book is a historical novel DEATH COMING UP THE HILL, scheduled to be released in October 2014. Chris married his high school sweetheart, and they live in Provo, Utah, where he works in the English department at BYU. They are the parents of four children and grandparents of two lovely girls and three handsome boys.
