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Zora!: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston


School year: Year 6, Year 7, Year 8

No. of pages 192

Published: 2020

Great for age 7-13 years

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As a young woman, Hurston lived and wrote alongside such prominent authors as Langston Hughes and Alain Locke during the Harlem Renaissance. But unfortunately, despite writing the luminary work Their Eyes Were Watching God, she was always short of money. Though she took odd jobs as a housemaid and as the personal assistant to an actress, Zora often found herself in abject poverty. Through it all, Zora kept writing. And though none of her books sold more than a thousand copies while she was alive, she was rediscovered a decade later by a new generation of readers, who knew they had found an important voice of American Literature.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 5th grade-7th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 10-12 years.

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published in 2020 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company .

Judith and Dennis Fradin have published over 150 books for children. They have won many awards, most recently a Jefferson Cup Honor for their book 5, 000 Miles to Freedom (National Geographic, 2006). Their most recent National Geographic titles were Hurricanes and Volcanoes in the Witness to Disaster series. They live in Chicago, IL.

 

This book features the following character:

Zora Neale Hurston
This book features the character Zora Neale Hurston.

"This accessible biography introduces Zora Neale Hurston's remarkable life and work to a new generation of readers."--Booklist

 

 

"Fradin continues his tradition of writing superbly researched biographies."--VOYA, 4Q 3P M J

"Zora Neale Hurston and her times come alive in this introduction for young readers."--Kirkus

 

 

"Zora's creative, hopeful, and complicated personality shines through this compelling profile."--Publishers Weekly

"The writing is straightforward and engaging, and the numerous archival photographs and reproductions add interest and clarification."--School Library Journal

 

 

"[An] engaging account of Hurston's life . . . this well-documented biography is pleasurable reading as well as informative."--Horn Book

"[Zora!] features the humor and heartache of the life of a brilliant but largely underappreciated writer who only became really well known after her death."--Bulletin