Jazmin's Notebook

Author: Grimes, Nikki

Brand: Penguin Random House

Color: Burgundy/maroon

Edition: Reprint

Binding: paperback

Format: Import

Number Of Pages: 112

Release Date: 01-01-2000

Part Number: FBA-|296696

Details: Product Description
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 Year
Review
-- "Readers will delight in [Jazmin's] candor and imagination". -- School Library Journal, starred review
From the Back Cover
Jazmin Shelby knows how to fight -- after all, she's always had to. Her dad died a couple of years back, and now that her mom's in the hospital, it's just her and her sister, CeCe. But that's okay by Jazmin. She's got her stoop on Amsterdam Avenue, where she can keep an eye on all the neighborhood action. She's got her friends Sophie and Destinee to keep her laughing. And most of all, she's got her notebook, filled to the brim with poetry, laughter, and her own irrepressible views on life, Harlem, and just about everything else.
About the Author
Nikki Grimes is the award-winning,
New York Times bestselling 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) for
Bronx Masquerade, and the Horace Mann Upstanders Award (2011) for 
Almost Zero: A Dyamonde Daniel Book. Additionally, her book
Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope (illustrated by Bryan Collier) was a
New York Times bestseller, and she was acknowledged as an NAACP Image Award Finalist in 1993 for her book
Malcolm X: a Force for Change. Her books
Meet Danitra Brown (illustrated by Floyd Cooper),
Jazmin's Notebook, 
Talkin' About Bessie (illustrated by E.B. Lewis),
Dark Sons,
The Road to Paris, and
Words with Wings were each awarded Coretta Scott King Honors. Visit her online at www.nikkigrimes.com.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
copyright ?1998 by Nikki Grimespublished by Dial Books for Young ReadersA 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 28It must drive God crazy to see how much we take for granted. My friend Jabari is a great example. This afternoon his grandmother left Wilson?s Drugstore, grinning, and hurried across the Avenue clutching a large envelope. She stopped in front of The Garden to catch her breath, and waved me over while she rested. ?Looka here,? she said, slipping an 8 x 10 glossy from the envelope. It was a photo from Jabari?s prom.
?That?s my grandbaby!? she said, proud as the First Lady, going on about how clever she knew he was, and how he got his brains from her side of the family, and how she planned on framing his diploma?in silver, no less. Man! You?d think he had graduated from Harvard, instead of being on his way to high school along with the rest of us. Then again he might be the first in his family to make it so far. Whether he is or not, I suppose his grandmother has the right to brag.
I smiled politely and said, yes, Jabari did look mighty handsome in that fine suit. Which is right about when she dug out her wallet and rewarded my good manners by showing me an old photograph of Jabari, scooting, bare-bottomed, across a baby blanket.
"He always was the cutest thing," she cooed.
All I could think was,
Poor Jabari! What?s this thing grown-ups have about showing off embarrassing pictures of naked babies? I don?t know. I couldn?t keep from laughing, though. After all, th

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