What happens while Damaris is at Dyamonde's House? What does Dyamonde encourage Damaris to write about? Who does Dyamonde see when she is with her mom? Where does this person live? What do Free and Dyamonde do after school? Why does Free think his family is poor? Is he really? Looking at the book cover what do you think the book is about?ĭiscussion topics for during/after reading: And when they get to know Damaris, they realize the one who could use the prize money the most also happens to be the best poet in class. The prize is one hundred dollars?just think what they could buy with that much money! But when they find out that Damaris, one of their classmates, has been living in a homeless shelter, their ideas about what it means to be rich or poor start to change. Grade Level: 4th (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.)ĭyamonde Daniel is excited about the local library?s poetry contest, and so is her friend Free.

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He has illustrated the biographies of many historical and cultural figures, and he frequently lectures at schools across the country.

He has illustrated numerous picture books, including The Deaf Musicians (by Pete Seeger and Paul DuBois Jacobs), which received the Schneider Family Book Award. Gregory Christie was named a top children's book illustrator by the New York Times and has received three Coretta Scott King Honors. Lewis), Dark Sons, The Road to Paris, and Words with Wings were each awarded Coretta Scott King Honors. Nikki Grimes won the Children's Literature Legacy Award, which honors an author or illustrator whose books have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children over a period of years. Her books Meet Danitra Brown (illustrated by Floyd Cooper), Jazmin's Notebook, Talkin' About Bessie (illustrated by E.B. Additionally, her book Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope (illustrated by Bryan Collier) was a New York Times bestseller, and she was acknowledged as an NAACP Image Award Finalist in 1993 for her book Malcolm X: a Force for Change. Among the many accolades she has received are the Golden Dolphin Award (2005),the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children (2006), the Coretta Scott King Award (2003) for Bronx Masquerade, and the Horace Mann Upstanders Award (2011) for Almost Zero: A Dyamonde Daniel Book. Nikki Grimes is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of dozens of children's and young adult books as well as a poet and journalist.

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