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“I've been waiting a long time to be a children's book author. I've spent decades getting good enough to write for children. When a kid likes my book, or just likes that I'm visiting and talking to him or her, and I get a hug, I feel reborn. That hug that says you made a connection - there's nothing better in the whole wide world.”

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Jewell Parker Rhodes
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Jewell Parker Rhodes is an American novelist born in 1954. Her works primarily focus on themes of race, identity, and history, known for their profound social insight and rich imagination. more

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