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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Memoir
- Signed
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9781629798813
- Book Title
- Ordinary Hazards : a Memoir
- Publisher
- Highlights Press, C/O Highlights for Children, Inc.
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Young Adult Nonfiction
- Topic
- Biography & Autobiography / Literary, Family / Orphans & Foster Homes, Poetry
- Item Weight
- 19.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Highlights Press, C/O Highlights for Children, Inc.
ISBN-10
1629798819
ISBN-13
9781629798813
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038448073
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ordinary Hazards : a Memoir
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Biography & Autobiography / Literary, Family / Orphans & Foster Homes, Poetry
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Young Adult Nonfiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
19.4 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Young Adult Audience
LCCN
2019-902537
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Life, as Nikki Grimes so well puts it, is full of ordinary hazard s , only she creates and accepts them in poems. Sometimes you want to cry . . . sometimes to laugh . . . but always at all times are you glad you are alive and lived with it and through it. Ms. Grimes writes, but some of us sing, bake, or build buildings or play sports. These, too, can be hazardous. But none of them is ordinary." --Nikki Giovanni, Poet "In Ordinary Hazards Nikki Grimes gives us her raw, desperate, joyful, lyrical truth, while celebrating the life-changing, and life -saving , power of words. Whoever you are, there's something in Ordinary Hazards for you." --Chris Crutcher, author of Whale Talk and Losers Bracket " Ordinary Hazards is an extraordinary book, a stunning memoir in verse that celebrates the power of the written word and the human spirit. Nikki's story will be a life-saving read for teens who need to know that there is hope on the other side of the struggles they're facing today." --Kate Messner, author of Breakout and The Seventh Wish "Can I use just one word in a blurb? Then it's WOW! If two: Incredibly moving. If three: Poetry saved her. Four: That's too easy. Instead I'll tell you that if you read one book of poetry this year, or one memoir, make it this one. How the poet came out of her childhood with grace and good words is a miracle. How she wanted to share is a second one. That she did--a third. Just WOW." --Jane Yolen, sometime poet, author of over 375 published books "In Ordinary Hazards , Nikki Grimes has given us an intimate look into her life as a young person who found writing as a way to buoy herself in the choppy waters of her childhood. Giving us a glimpse into addiction, abandonment, foster care, and abuse, Grimes poetically guides us to her eventual acceptance and amazement. This is a testimony and a triumph." --Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down "Memory is a capricious dance partner. Sometimes it overwhelms our brain, stomping with bold, defined images and thoughts, and sometimes it simply tiptoes around the edges of a whisper, a dream, a forgotten touch or glance. Nikki Grimes's powerful memoir does both as she uses words, her constant source of strength, to tell the story of her childhood, which at times was both traumatic as well as triumphant. The strength that carried the child who would become the writer, the poet, the visionary was built on the power of words. She constantly and faithfully wrote in journals and notebooks and on scraps of paper because the words were her wings. Poetry became a necessary tool of survival for her mind and body and soul. This memoir, which she calls Ordinary Hazards , far exceeds the title. It is extraordinary." --Sharon M. Draper, author of the New York Times best seller Out of My Mind
Grade From
Seventh Grade
Dewey Decimal
811/.54092 B
Synopsis
Michael L. Printz Honor Book Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Honor Book Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for Teens Six Starred Reviews--Booklist BCCB The Horn Book Publishers Weekly School Library Connection Shelf Awareness A Booklist Best Book for Youth * A BCCB Blue Ribbon * A Horn Book Fanfare Book * A Shelf Awareness Best Children's Book * Recommended on NPR's "Morning Edition" by Kwame Alexander In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse. Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduing companions. In this accessible and inspiring memoir that will resonate with young readers and adults alike, Nikki shows how the power of those words helped her conquer the hazards - ordinary and extraordinary - of her life., "This powerful story, told with the music of poetry and the blade of truth, will help your heart grow."--Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and Shout " A] testimony and a triumph."--Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse. Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduing companions. In this accessible and inspiring memoir that will resonate with young readers and adults alike, Nikki shows how the power of those words helped her conquer the hazards - ordinary and extraordinary - of her life., In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse. Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduing companions. In this accessible and inspiring memoir that will resonate with young readers and adults alike, Nikki shows how the power of those words helped her conquer the hazards - ordinary and extraordinary - of her life.
LC Classification Number
PS3557.R489982Z458
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