Description
Author: Charles Waters, Irene Latham
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Published: 01/04/2022
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9780593322888
ISBN10: 0593322886
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Historical | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Young Adult Fiction | Novels in Verse
- Young Adult Fiction | People & Places | United States | African American & Black
About the Author
Irene Latham is the author of more than a dozen current and forthcoming works of poetry, fiction, and picture books, including Charlotte Huck Honor Book Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship (co-written with Charles Waters). Winner of the 2016 ILA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award, she became obsessed with octopuses after reading The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery. Just like Agnes, she enjoys sending--and receiving--postcards. Visit her at www.irenelatham.com.
Charles Waters is a children's poet, actor, and co-author of Charlotte Huck Honor Book Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship. His poems have appeared in various anthologies including One Minute Till Bedtime and The National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry. Charles performs his one-person show as well as conducts poetry performance and writing workshops for elementary and middle school audiences. He lives in Georgia.