Tanya Lee Stone
Description
Tanya Lee Stone is an award-winning author of books for kids and teens. Her work, which includes YA fiction (A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl), picture books (Elizabeth Leads the Way and Sandy's Circus), and nonfiction (Almost Astronauts and The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie) has won national awards such as the ALA's Sibert Medal, SCBWI's Golden Kite Award, YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction, Jane Addams Book Award Honor, Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, NCTE's Orbus Pictus, and Bank Street's Flora Steiglitz Award. Forthcoming titles include Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?! and The House that Jane Built (Holt 2013) and Courage Has No Color (Candlewick 2013).
Books
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Provides an analysis of Wilder's ninevolume chronicle of her pioneer childhood.
Regional Wild America - Unique Animals of the Southwest (Regional Wild America)
D is for Dreidel
Rhymes in which every letter of the alphabet decribes a different aspect of Hanukkah and its celebration.
Abraham Lincoln
Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut
A biography of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who died in the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003.
