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Multiple award-winnings, Cowley's love for song and her playful creativity are important to her when creating inspirational characters. She aims to inspire people of all ages who may have, like her at a young age, forgotten or doubted their…

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Cooper is an English children’s author best known for her young adult fantasy series The Dark is Rising. She was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1976 and the Margaret A. Edwards Award in 2012, recognizing her lifetime contribution to writing for teens.

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This novel is a prequel to Thomas’ The Hate U Give. It follows Maverick, the father of Starr Carter in The Hate U Give, as a seventeen-year-old highschool student. He is a senior and a member of the King Lords gang in a fictional Black neighborhood…

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Suzanne Collins began her career as a children's television show writer then an author. Collins is an award winning author which inlcude the 2016 Authors Guild Award for Distingushed Service to the Literary Community, the 2008 CYBIL Award for Fantasy…

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Cohen is an illustrator from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Hannah Abigail Clarke's first novel isThe Scapegracers. It is sequeled by The Scratch Daughters. They have been published in Lunch Ticket, PRISM international, Dream Pop Press, Portland Review, Gothic Nature Journal, Eidolon, and Chaleur…

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Cilla Lee-Jenkins knows she is destined to be a great author; her first-person narrative demonstrates her working at her craft while also learning about her biracial (Chinese/White) identity.

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Chong, who lives and works in the United Kingdom, is an "award-winning freelance illustrator and designer", whose varied projects have been published internationally.

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The main character, Aisha, is a nineteen-year-old black single mother of two living in the New York Projects. She does not take life too seriously and tries to enjoy it as much as she can -- that is, until she receives a welfare benefits termination…

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Cherry is a retired NFL player turned multimedia creative in Los Angeles. In 2020, he won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

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Charles-Williams is an artist. She goes by Cathy Charles or by Cathy Charles-Williams. She is Haitian, and much of her work is of the BIPOC community. She is married to Devin Williams, a professional baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers.

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The pie chart reflects the percentage of both primary and secondary characters. Charts provide information about the different genders, sexualities, races, and ethnicity of characters.

Primary Characters:
Male Characters: 7
Female Characters:…

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Corporate-owned chain bookstore. Two floors, one of which is primarily dedicated to fiction. There is a dedicated children's book section.

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Phyllis Christine Cast (P.C Cast), is known for co-writing A House of Night series with her daughter Kristin Cast. She is a New York bestselling author who writes romance and fantasy novels. Cast taught high school for 15 years before retiring to…

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Kristin Cast is a New York Times bestselling author, who is known for co-writing and editing The House of Night with her mother P.C Cast. She grew up in Oklahoma and began writing when she was only 19 years old. Kristin and her mother have written…

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Liz Casal Goodhue is a book designer, illustrator, and writer of Cuban roots. She specializes in book cover illustrations as a freelancer and has collaborated with a variety of clients, including Amazon, Audible, Disney-Hyperion, Penguin Random…

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Carvalho is an illustrator who specializes in digital art and creates prints on cotton paper.

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Cartwright received her BA in Art History and Studio in 2010 from University of Virginia. She also received her MFA from Mason School of Arts, Rutgers University in 2010.
Cartwright resides in Annapolis, Maryland.

Carrier is an acclaimed author. He has written "novels, short stories, plays, film and television scripts, essays, travel books, and poetry" ("Roch Carrier"). On top of that, he was also Canada’s National Librarian.

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She is a lead concept artist and illustrator who has worked for clients like Penguin Random House and Harper Collins to create book covers and editorial illustrations. Bowater is the cover artist for Margaret Rogerson's Vespertine.

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This is a locally owned bookstore that has been serving the Beechwood community and surrounding neighborhoods since 1994. There is a good variety of children’s literature, middle-grade and YA novels at the back of the bookstore.

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This playful picture book celebrates a variety of body types, genders, hair types, and skin colours. It uses friendly images to deliver lessons on body positivity and inclusivity.

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A teen with is forced to sacrifice the love of her life in order to preserve her family's magical powers. Being a teen, she has never been in love and is tasked with finding Mr. Right in order to kill him. She applies for a matchmaking program and is…

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Sophie Blackall has illustrated more than 30 children's books. She won the Caldecott Medal in 2016 forFinding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear(2015) and in 2019 forHello, Lighthouse (2018). She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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Holly Black is a writer who currently lives in New England with her husband and son. She was born and raised in West Long Branch, New Jersey and moved away when she got older. Black is the #1 New York Times bestselling author for over thirty of her…

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