Nikki Grimes Website:nikkigrimes.com Birthplace: New York City, NY USA Most recent address:Corona, CA USA Author Biography Nikki Grimes was born October 20, 1950 in New York City. After graduating from college, she received a grant from the Ford Foundation to do research in Tanzania in 1974 and 1975. The author has traveled a great deal and she lived in Sweden for six years. Grimes' hobbies include making wearable art, art garments, beaded jewelry, and handmade cards. "Meet Danitra Brown" was a 1995 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book and an ALA Notable Children's Book. "Come Sunday" was a 1997 ALA Notable Children's Book. "Jazmin's Notebook" was a 1999 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book. "Bronx Masquerade" was the 2003 Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner. "Talkin' About Bessie" was a 2003 ALA Notable Children's Book, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner. "Dark Sons" was a 2005 C.S.King Author Honor Book. 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Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 20.74 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Kamala Harris : rooted in justice by Grimes, Nikki BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2020) BTSB #: 353892 Available Dewey: 328.7309/BAges: 4-8 AR: 5 LG Lexile: 890 AD Genres: Subjects: Harris, Kamala,|d1964- United States.|bCongress.|bSenate - Biography Women legislators - United States - Biography Legislators - United States - Biography Women presidential candidates - United States - Biography Presidential candidates - United States - Biography Summary: The first-ever picture book biography on Senator Kamala Harris. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 21.46 * 0.00 +- Legacy: Women Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki BTSB Prebound New title, awaiting publication or binding.(BLOOMSBURY USA) BTSB #: 353894 In Bindery Dewey: 811/NAges: 10-14 Genres: Subjects: Summary: Using “The Golden Shovel” method the author creates wholly original poems based on the works of the groundbreaking women poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.16 * 0.00 +- One last word : wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki BTSB Prebound(Bloomsbury, 2017) BTSB #: 402544 Available Dewey: 811/NAges: 10-14 RC: 6.1 6-8 Lexile: NP Genres: Subjects: African Americans - Poetry Summary: In this collection of poetry, Nikki Grimes looks afresh at the poets of the Harlem Renaissance -- including voices like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and many more writers of importance and resonance from this era -- by combining their work with her own original poetry. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.16 * 0.00 +- Download a Teacher's Guide Ordinary hazards : a memoir by Grimes, Nikki BTSB Prebound(WordSong, 2019) BTSB #: 402543 Available Dewey: 800/BAges: 12-14 AR: 5.5 UG Lexile: 840 Genres: Subjects: Grimes, Nikki American authors - Biography Women authors - Biography African Americans - Biography Summary: Explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.86 * 0.00 +- Poems in the attic by Grimes, Nikki BTSB Prebound(Lee & Low Books, 2015) BTSB #: 402551 Available Dewey: 811/NAges: 6-10 AR: 3.9 LG Lexile: NP Genres: Subjects: Moving - Fiction Military bases - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Poetry - Fiction Summary: A young girl learns much about her mother as she reads a collection of poems written before she was born that capture her mother's memories of living around the world and growing up as a child of an Air Force serviceperson. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.84 * 0.00 +- Southwest sunrise by Grimes, Nikki BTSB Prebound(Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2020) BTSB #: 402554 Available Dewey: EAges: 3-6 Genres: General Fiction Subjects: Moving - Fiction Nature - Fiction Color - Fiction African Americans - Fiction New Mexico - Fiction Summary: Jayden expects to see nothing but brown his first morning in New Mexico, but after being surprised by colorful rocks, flowers, birds, and animals, he wonders if this place could become home. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 22.16 * 0.00 +- Watcher by Grimes, Nikki BTSB Prebound(Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2017) BTSB #: 402555 Available Dewey: FAges: 6-10 AR: 4.3 LG Lexile: 700 Genres: Subjects: Compassion Friendship Bullies Christian poetry Summary: Jordan lives in fear of Tanya, the class bully. But Tanya has problems of her own, no matter how much she tries to ignore them. Priority: 12 Item No: Comment: $ 20.77 * 0.00 +- * Your Discounted Price You can't see me! 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