In a collection of personal stories and essays, award-winning and bestselling artists from Matt de la Peña and Veera Hiranandani to Max Brallier and R.L. Stine write about how hope always wins, even in the darkest of times.
Rose Brock is a professor and educator at Sam Houston State University who has dedicated her career to turning young people into book lovers. Building relationships with readers through books is her superpower. In addition to her career as a librarian and educator, Dr. Brock is the cofounder of NTTBF, the North Texas Teen Book Festival, the largest library run book festival for young people in the country. Dr. Brock was awarded the Siddie Joe Johnson Award for Outstanding Service to Youth by the Texas Library Association. She is the editor of Hope Nation: Young Adult Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration and author of Young Adult Literature in Action: A Librarian's Guide. Visit her online at drrosebrock.com.Follow her on Twitter @reallyrosebrock.
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Praise for Hope Wins:A Spirit of Texas Reading Program title!"These personal essays, whose authors embody myriad worldviews and represent a widely intersectional spectrum, provide a much-needed window into how hope can flourish in hardship, and stress the importance of perseverance and a supportive community." –Publisher's Weekly
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Eric S. Nylund, Kenneth Oppel, Shannon Hale, Neal Shusterman, Shaun Tan, Ray Bradbury, Rebecca Stead, D. J. MacHale, Tom Angleberger, Rick Riordan, Jon Scieszka
Gordon Korman, Hena Khan, Veera Hiranandani, R.L. Stine, Adam Gidwitz, Stuart Gibbs, Matt de la Pe a, Rex Ogle, J. C. Cervantes, Pablo Cartaya, Julie Buxbaum, Max Brallier, Sarah Mlynowski, Tom Angleberger, Rose Brock
Gordon Korman, Hena Khan, Veera Hiranandani, R.L. Stine, Adam Gidwitz, Stuart Gibbs, Matt de la Pe a, Rex Ogle, J. C. Cervantes, Pablo Cartaya, Julie Buxbaum, Max Brallier, Sarah Mlynowski, Tom Angleberger, Rose Brock