6/19/2023 0 Comments Jayhawker by patricia beatty![]() In this way, First Book effectively leverages the heroic efforts of local tutoring, mentoring, and family literacy organizations as they work to reach children who need help the most. The primary goal of First Book is to work with existing literacy programs to distribute new books to children who, for economic reasons, have little or no access to books. HarperCollins Publishers is a proud supporter of First Book, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their own new books. Her novel Lupita MaƱana is a Jane Addams Children's Book Award honor book, and Charley Skedaddle won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. ![]() ![]() Patricia Beatty is the author of many popular and award-winning children's books, including such NCSS Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies as Eight Mules from Monterey Behave Yourself, Bethany Brant Turn Homeward, Hannalee Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee and Jayhawker. She taught Writing Fiction for Children at several branches of the University of California. ![]() ![]() After graduating from college, she taught high school English and history, and later held various positions as a science and technical librarian and also as a children's librarian. Patricia Beatty was born in Portland, Oregon, and was a longtime resident of southern California. ![]()
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