Courage is the most important of the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. ~Maya Angelou In the past days, beginning with G. Neri and Johnny Cash all the way through Ari I hope you’ve seen what a human… Read More About Courage: Finale
Ari has been one of the most popular YA bloggers to date. I could easily attribute her wildly successful blog to her passion for literature in general or to her passion for diversity in particular, but Ari will be successful at anything she chooses to do. Note her email handle “willbprez”. Because of the young… Read More About Courage 10: Ari
Deborah Taylor is currently Coordinator of School and Student Services for the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Ms. Taylor is the 2015 Chair of the Sibert Award Committee for Outstanding Informational Books and served as a member of the 2012 Sibert Award Committee. She has chaired the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee. She was a… Read More About Courage #7: Deborah Taylor
Medeia Sharif is a Kurdish-American author who was born in New York City. She received a master’s degree in psychology from Florida Atlantic University. While in high school, she became a voracious reader and she became a relentless writer in college. Her persistence paid off when BESTEST. RAMADAN. EVER. was published by Flux in 2011.… Read More About Courage #5: Medeia Sharif
Raised in Morinville–a small town north of Edmonton, Alberta–Marty Chan is a playwright, radio writer, television story editor, and young adult author. Much to the chagrin of his mother, he doesn’t include engineer on his resume. He attended a year of the Engineering Program at the University of Alberta, but received the Dean’s Vacation (a… Read More About Courage #4: Marty Chan
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