Ordinary hazards, a memoir, Nikki Grimes
Type
Label
Ordinary hazards, a memoir, Nikki Grimes
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Intended audience
840L, LexileSentence length: 4 (hard), Word frequency: 4 (hard), Lexile
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Ordinary hazards
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
1155050558
Responsibility statement
Nikki Grimes
Sub title
a memoir
Summary
...this writing thing was some kind of magic trick I didn't yet understand... Nikki Grimes discovered the power of writing at the tender age of six, when, along in her room, she poured her fears, anger, and tears onto a piece of paper - and felt sweet relief. Words and faith were her most enduring companions as life flung her headlong from one harrowing experience to the next through her childhood and teenage years. Words, spilled into notebook after notebook, kept her moving forward. Words turned what might have been into what could be. In the course of this remarkable memoir in verse, Nikki Grimes shows how grace, wisdom, and the power of words can help a brave soul conquer the hazards - ordinary and extraordinary - of life. --, From dust jacket
Target audience
adolescent
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Black people
- Dysfunctional families -- Juvenile literature
- Creative writing + Therapeutic use
- Autobiographical poetry
- African American women authors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Diaries + Psychological aspects -- Juvenile literature
- School children -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Children of the mentally ill -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African American women poets -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Foster children + Psychological aspects -- Juvenile literature
- Teenage girls -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Novels in verse
- Electronic books
- Creative writing + Therapeutic use -- Juvenile literature
- Poetry + Therapeutic use
- Grimes, Nikki -- Juvenile literature
- Autobiographies
- African American women poets -- Juvenile literature
- Authorship + Therapeutic use -- Juvenile literature
- BIPOC
- Poets, American -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Foster care + Psychological aspects -- Juvenile literature
- Ex-foster children -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Content
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- Subject23
- Black people
- Dysfunctional families -- Juvenile literature
- Creative writing + Therapeutic use
- Autobiographical poetry
- African American women authors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Diaries + Psychological aspects -- Juvenile literature
- School children -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Children of the mentally ill -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African American women poets -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Foster children + Psychological aspects -- Juvenile literature
- Teenage girls -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Novels in verse
- Electronic books
- Creative writing + Therapeutic use -- Juvenile literature
- Poetry + Therapeutic use
- Grimes, Nikki -- Juvenile literature
- Autobiographies
- African American women poets -- Juvenile literature
- Authorship + Therapeutic use -- Juvenile literature
- BIPOC
- Poets, American -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Foster care + Psychological aspects -- Juvenile literature
- Ex-foster children -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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