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Tracey Baptiste

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Born

San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago

Website

http://www.traceybaptiste.com

Genre

Young Adult, Nonfiction, Middle Grade

Influences

Rosa Guy; Hemmingway; Marquez

Member Since

May 2008

URL

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From Thompson-Gale: "Something About the Author"
I have always loved books. My favorite, was an oversized complete Grimm's Fairy Tales with beautiful illustrations, which I lost when my family moved to the United States. I was fascinated by the stories of the tailor who went up against a giant, and clever Hans, who wasn't so clever as well as the more traditional princess stories. When I was about thirteen, after spending a summer in the library reading Paul Zindel and Judy Blume among other authors, I announced to my best friend that I was going to be a writer. I didn't decide what I wanted to write until I read "The Friends" by Rosa Guy. I had recently moved to Brooklyn, NY, and the book spoke to my situation precisely. It remains one of m ...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 15,251 ratings · 2,786 reviews · 43 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Jumbies (The Jumbies, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 4,693 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Minecraft: The Crash (Official Minecraft Novels, #2) 4.19 avg rating — 1,246 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rise of the Jumbies (The Jumbies, #2) 4.08 avg rating — 842 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jumbie God's Revenge (The Jumbies, #3) 4.02 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Because Claudette by Tracey Baptiste (Goodreads Author), Tonya Engel (Illustrator) 4.21 avg rating — 275 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	African Icons: Ten People Who Built a Continent 4.38 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Angel's Grace 3.82 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History Comics: Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin: Civil Rights Heroes by Tracey Baptiste (Goodreads Author), Shauna J. Grant (Illustrations) 4.72 avg rating — 36 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stephenie Meyer 4.23 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madeleine L'Engle really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Proud Fierce Papa Bear” – The Speech

Bill Konigsberg Online

Following is the speech of the first half of my talk at ALAN on Nov 19, 2018. It touches on an event that happened at a panel at NCTE on Saturday. Video is likely to follow, but I wanted this to get out there. I will post the text of the second half of the talk, which is more about toxic masculinity and my forthcoming novel, THE MUSIC OF WHAT HAPPENS, tomorrow.

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“Because it is the hardness of the floor, and the abrupt halt in momentum, and the unyielding nature of the surface, that causes a thing to crack. Even if it is not that thing's fault. And then we talk about this thing being broken, or it needing to be fixed, and not what part of the floor has played in the matter. Never the part about the floor being a constant threat. Even if it is a nice floor. Even if everybody wants one just like it.”
― Tracey Baptiste, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

tags: black-enough, break, broken, dark, fall, falling, gravity, metaphor, sad, smash

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“seed is a promise, Corinne, a guarantee. Plant it and watch it grow.”
― Tracey Baptiste, The Jumbies

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“My mother tells me all the time that if you don't trouble trouble, then trouble won't trouble you.”
― Tracey Baptiste, The Jumbies

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