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Dhonielle Clayton

Born

in Olney, MD, The United States

May 26, 1983

Website

https://www.dhonielleclayton.com/

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Genre

Young Adult, Children's

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Born and raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., Dhonielle spent much of her childhood hiding beneath her grandmother's dining table with a stack of books. As an English teacher at a ballet academy, Clayton rediscovered her passion for children's and young adult literature. To ground herself in the canon, she pursued her Masters in Children's Literature from Hollins University before receiving her MFA in Writing for Children at the New School. She is a former middle school librarian, where she pestered children to read and curated a diverse collection. An avid traveler, Dhonielle's lived in several foreign countries, but she's now settled in Harlem, where you'll find her writing late into the night, lurking in libraries, and hunting for ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 84,178 ratings · 18,366 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Belles (The Belles, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 21,395 ratings — published 2018 — 33 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
	Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson (Goodreads Author), Nic Stone (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 12,174 ratings — published 2021 — 29 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 Everlasting Rose (The Belles, #2) 3.57 avg rating — 6,312 ratings — published 2019 — 18 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 Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology by Dhonielle Clayton (Editor), Samira Ahmed (Goodreads Author), Jenni Balch 3.75 avg rating — 1,827 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
	The Rumor Game by Dhonielle Clayton, Sona Charaipotra (Goodreads Author) 3.51 avg rating — 490 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Shattered Midnight (The Mirror, #2) 3.86 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 2022 — 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 Marvellers 4.30 avg rating — 56 ratings — expected publication 2022 — 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
	Weight 3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings	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
	Untitled (Belles, #3) 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings	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
	Queens 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	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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The Belles (3 books)
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“Be the best without trying to be better than the others.”
― Dhonielle Clayton, The Belles

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“Dreams remind us of who we are and how we feel about the things around us.”
― Dhonielle Clayton, The Belles

tags: dreams

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“Love is when hearts beat together.”
― Dhonielle Clayton, The Belles

tags: hearts, love, together

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Which book should the YA LGBT Books Group read as our Book of the Month for July-Aug 2019?

The Music of What Happens

by Bill Konigsberg

19 votes 57.6%

The Belles

by Dhonielle Clayton

8 votes 24.2%

Brave Face

by Shaun David Hutchinson

6 votes 18.2%

33 total votes

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