Jazmin's Notebook [Paperback]

Jazmin Shelby was born with clenched fists -which is okay, since she's got a lot of fighting ahead of her. Her dad died a couple of years back, and now that her mom's in the hospital, it's just her and her big sister, CeCe. But that's fine by Jazmin. She's got her friends, her school, lots of big plans for the future-and a zest for life and laughter that's impossible to resist.

A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
A Booklist Editors' Choice Book
A Child Study Children's Book Committee Children's Book of the YearNikki Grimes is the award-winning,New York Timesbestselling author of dozens of children’s and young adult books as well as a poet and journalist.
 
Among the many accolades she has received are the Golden Dolphin Award (2005),the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children (2006), the Coretta Scott King Award (2003) forBronx Masquerade, and the Horace Mann Upstanders Award (2011) for Almost Zero: A Dyamonde Daniel Book. Additionally, her bookBarack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope(illustrated by Bryan Collier) was aNew York Timesbestseller, and she was acknowledged as an NAACP Image Award Finalist in 1993 for her bookMalcolm X: a Force for Change. Her booksMeet Danitra Brown (illustrated by Floyd Cooper),Jazmin's Notebook, Talkin' About Bessie(illustrated by E.B. Lewis),Dark Sons,The Road to Paris, andWords with Wingswere each awarded Coretta Scott King Honors. Visit her online at www.nikkigrimes.com.copyright ?1998 by Nikki Grimes
published by Dial Books for Young Readers
A Member of Penguin Putnam Inc.- excerpt (pages 14-25)FOR SALEI pass the used-goods store
peek at
the bronzed baby shoes
useless and dusty
in the window.
It?s legal
to sell such things,
I know.
But it feels wrong
to me,
someone selling
someone else?s
memory.

MAY 28