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Jerdine Nolen

Jerdine Nolen
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Jerdine Nolen

Jerdine Nolen is the author of many award-winning books for children, including Eliza’s Freedom Road, illustrated by Shadra Strickland; Raising Dragons, illustrated by Elise Primavera, which received the Christopher Award; and Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm, illustrated by Mark Buehner, which won the Kentucky Bluegrass Award. She and Kadir Nelson collaborated on Thunder Rose, which School Library Journal called “a wonderful tale of joy and love”; and Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life, which received the Society of Illustrators’ Gold Medal. Jerdine Nolen lives with her family in Ellicott City, Maryland.

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Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life will be released on January 01, 2013 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Jan 01, 2013
Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
Jan 01, 2013
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Eliza's Freedom Road has won an award
Dec 14, 2012
Eliza's Freedom Road is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Jan 04, 2011
Eliza's Freedom Road will be released on January 04, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Jan 04, 2011
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Chapter 1 from Eliza's Freedom Road
Dec 22, 2010
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Eliza's Freedom Road
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Plantzilla Goes to Camp will be released on April 01, 2006 in
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Plantzilla Goes to Camp will be released on March 28, 2006 in Hardcover
Mar 28, 2006
Plantzilla Goes to Camp is now available in Hardcover
Mar 28, 2006
Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life will be released on January 06, 2005 in Hardcover
Jan 06, 2005
Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life is now available in Hardcover
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San Jose Mercury News, February 7, 2013
...heroes and more. Here are some recommended titles: "Eliza's Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary," by Jerdine Nolen (a Paula Wiseman Book, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $14.99, ages 8-12). In this gentle, fictionalized diary of a...
Columbia Patch, May 30, 2012
...Families; drop-in. Books available for purchase and signing. AUTHOR SCHEDULE: 10:45 am Katherine Paterson 11:30 am Jerdine Nolen 12 pm      Jacqueline Jules 12:30 pm Michael Buckley 1 pm        Pamela Duncan Edwards 1:30 pm  ...
Parkville-Overlea Patch, January 14, 2013
...books like: "Brave as a Mountain Lion" by Ann Herbert Scott "Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life" by Jerdine Nolen "Eliot Jones, Midnight Superhero" by Anne Cottringer "Memoirs of a Goldfish" by Devin Scillian "Callie Cat, Ice Skater" by Eileen...
Columbia Patch, October 9, 2012
...10375 Little Patuxent Pky, Columbia, MD | Get Directions » FREE Jerdine Nolen reads from her book, Eliza's Freedom Road and discusses the impact of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. 39.21145 -76.85906 primary November 6, 2012, 11:00...
Garner News, September 26, 2012
...Badge” by George McClements • “Monk Camps Out” by Emily Arnold McCully • “Plantzilla Goes to Camp” by Jerdine Nolen • “And You Can Come Too” by Ruth Ohi • “Whistling” by Elizabeth Partridge • “The Boy Who Looked...
Savage-Guilford Patch, June 13, 2012
...County Central Library at 10:30 a.m. Other authors who also will be speaking and signing autographs include: Jerdine Nolen – 11:30 a.m. – Author of Eliza’s Freedom Road, a story about a girl who uses the underground railroad to escape from 1854...
Columbia Patch, June 12, 2012
...County Central Library at 10:30 a.m. Other authors who also will be speaking and signing autographs include: Jerdine Nolen – 11:30 a.m. – author of Eliza’s Freedom Road, a story about a girl who uses the underground railroad to escape from 1854...