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Phil Bildner

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Phil Bildner is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-five books for young people including the NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor-winning middle grade novel, A High Five for Glenn Burke, the inaugural Margaret Wise Brown Prize-winning Marvelous Cornelius, and the Lambda Literary Award-winning, Glenn Burke, Game Changer. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed middle grade Rip & Red series as well as the picture books Twenty-One Elephants and The Soccer Fence. His latest book is the much-anticipated, mixed format upper middle grade novel, Too Big to Say, co-created by Mike Curato.

Phil grew up on Long Island, earned his undergraduate degree in political science at Johns Hopkins University, and earned his law degree Phil Bildner is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty-five books for young people including the NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor-winning middle grade novel, A High Five for Glenn Burke, the inaugural Margaret Wise Brown Prize-winning Marvelous Cornelius, and the Lambda Literary Award-winning, Glenn Burke, Game Changer. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed middle grade Rip & Red series as well as the picture books Twenty-One Elephants and The Soccer Fence. His latest book is the much-anticipated, mixed format upper middle grade novel, Too Big to Say, co-created by Mike Curato.

Phil grew up on Long Island, earned his undergraduate degree in political science at Johns Hopkins University, and earned his law degree at New York University School of Law. After passing the bar in New York and New Jersey and working for a short time as an associate at a large Manhattan law firm, Phil went back to school and earned his master’s degree in early childhood and elementary education at Long Island University.

For eleven years, Phil taught in the New York City Public Schools. He taught fifth and sixth grade in the Tremont section of the Bronx in the 1990s and middle school Language Arts and American History in Manhattan in the 2000s.
After leaving the classroom to write full time, Phil began chaperoning student-volunteer trips to New Orleans to help in the post-Hurricane Katrina recovery effort. He founded The NOLA Tree, a non-profit youth service organization and served as the co-Executive Director for several years.

In 2017, Phil founded The Author Village, the premier speakers’ bureau for book creators for young people, educators, and librarians. He is also a leading activist in the fight against censorship and book bans.

These days, Phil lives in Newburgh, New York with his husband in a two-hundred-year-old farmhouse. Most of the time, you’ll find him out playing in the yard, hanging with his cats, Primrose and Rue, or working on the back porch (aka, his office) overlooking the Hudson River.
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A School Canceled My Virtual Author Visit Because of A HIGH FIVE FOR GLENN BURKE

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A school canceled my virtual author visit because they didn��t want their fourth graders to know about my middle grade novel A High Five for Glenn Burke. They didn��t want their fourth graders to know about it because they feared a few loud parents in their community.

The book is about a boy who loves baseball, karaoke, and the movie The Sandl

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Average rating: 4.02 · 5,668 ratings · 1,121 reviews · 33 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Whole New Ballgame (Rip and Red, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 1,158 ratings — published 2015 — 9 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
	A High Five for Glenn Burke 4.10 avg rating — 820 ratings — published 2020 — 9 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
	Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans (A Latino Book of Concepts) by Phil Bildner (Goodreads Author), John Parra (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.21 avg rating — 723 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	The Hallelujah Flight by Phil Bildner (Goodreads Author), John Holyfield (Illustrator) 4.07 avg rating — 498 ratings — published 2010 — 5 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
	Martina & Chrissie: The Greatest Rivalry in the History of Sports by Phil Bildner (Goodreads Author), Brett Helquist (Illustrator) 3.97 avg rating — 337 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
	Rookie of the Year (Rip and Red, #2) 4.27 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 2016 — 5 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 Soccer Fence: A story of friendship, hope, and apartheid in South Africa by Phil Bildner (Goodreads Author), Jesse Joshua Watson (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.94 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 2014 — 8 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
	Glenn Burke, Game Changer: The Man Who Invented the High Five by Phil Bildner (Goodreads Author), Daniel J. O'Brien (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.26 avg rating — 160 ratings — 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
	Tournament of Champions (Rip and Red, #3) by Phil Bildner (Goodreads Author), Tim Probert (Illustrator) 4.13 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2017 — 5 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
	Turkey Bowl by Phil Bildner (Goodreads Author), C.F. Payne (Illustrator) 3.68 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2008 — 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

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“Cornelius rose. He dried his eyes. For his spirit and will were waterproof.”
― Phil Bildner

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