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Listen to phillip hoose read and discuss moonbird at. He is one of the only hoosier authors to win the national book award, which was awarded for his book, claudette colvin. On march 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in montgomery, alabama. Phillip hoose presents the first indepth account of a major, yet littleknown, civil rights figure whose. His curiosities and experiences led him towards writing published titles. He extracted the true tale of the boys who challenged hitler from 25 hours of interviews and nearly 1,000 email exchanges with knud himself. Twice toward justice, and he was a finalist for we were there too. You have to take a stand and say, this is not right. Tina finebergap phillip hoose accompanies claudette colvin to the lectern in manhattan last month as he exults in the win of his nonfiction book, claudette colvin, as the national book award s. Congratulations to phillip hoose, the winner of the 2009 national book award, in the young peoples literature category.
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