Ellen Levine (1) (1939–2012)
Autor(a) de Henry's Freedom Box
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About the Author
Ellen Levine was born in New York City on March 9, 1939. She received a master's degree in political science from the University of Chicago and a law degree from New York University School of Law. She was an attorney for a public-interest law group, a documentary filmmaker, and taught courses in mostrar mais writing for children and young adults in Vermont College's MFA program. She wrote numerous books for children and young adults during her lifetime including Darkness Over Denmark, I Hate English, Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Stories, Rachel Carson: A Twentieth-Century Life, and Henry's Freedom Box. She died from lung cancer on May 26, 2012 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Ellen Levine
Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories (1993) 298 cópias, 5 resenhas
Darkness Over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews (1905) 206 cópias, 7 resenhas
The Journal of Jedediah Barstow: An Emigrant on the Oregon Trail, Overland, 1845 (2002) 184 cópias, 3 resenhas
Anna Pavlova 1 exemplar(es)
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Levine, Ellen Deborah
- Data de nascimento
- 1939-03-09
- Data de falecimento
- 2012-05-26
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- New York City, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- lung cancer
- Locais de residência
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
New York, New York, USA
Salem, New York, USA - Educação
- Brandeis University (1960)
New York University (JD) - Ocupação
- Documentary researcher
Law clerk
author - Relacionamentos
- Koedt, Anne (wife)
- Premiações
- American Judicature Society Prize 1978
Order of the Coif, NYU 1979
Writer's Hall of Fame 1981
YWCA's Academy of Women Achiever's Award 1982
American Society of Journalists and Authors Award 1986
Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications 1989 (mostrar todas 8)
Parents Choice Award 1990
Jane Addams Peace Award
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Resenhas
A book about a young Chinese girl who moved to the U.S. but does not want to speak English. Until a teacher came a long and slowly got the girl to open up and talk more. Now the girl is willing to talk in both English and Chinese.
Elementary
Elementary
This book is great for any age. This book can help everyone struggling to learn a second language. This book is about a stubborn girl who doesn't want to learn English. She talks about the struggle and or the mental struggle that she has mentally.
A book about slavery and the Underground Railroad. A young boy named Henry, doesn't know how old he is, as no one keeps records on slaves. All Henry wants is his freedom and to have a birthday. He dreams about places far away. Henry is torn away from his family and is a warehouse worker. Later, he discovers that his family is sold at the slave market. Henry has an idea as he is lifting crates at the warehouse. Henry is a brave and smart and ends up mailing himself to the North.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 25
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 15,552
- Popularidade
- #1,461
- Avaliação
- 4.4
- Resenhas
- 643
- ISBNs
- 130
- Idiomas
- 3
Historical fiction ages five through eight.