Derrick Barnes
Derrick Barnes is an American author. He is known for writing several popular series of children's books and is a former staff writer for Hallmark greeting cards. In 2018 Barnes received several awards that include the Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award for his 2017 book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut. Barnes' books celebrate African American culture and feature positive images of black children in everyday life.
Books
- Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice
- The Talk
- What Do You Believe???
- I Am a God
- Santa's Gotta Go!
- Yo Soy Cada Cosa Buena
- The King of Kindergarten
- Roi de la Maternelle
- Santa Has Got to Go
- Like Lava in My Veins
- I Am Every Good Thing
- Queen of Kindergarten
- Crown
- We could be brothers
- Ruby and the Booker boys. Brand new school, brave new Ruby
- Trivia queen, third-grade supreme
- Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
- What Do You Believe? I Am a God
- I Made My Own Bed
- Who Got Game? : Basketball
- King of the Classroom
- The low-down, bad-day blues
- Reine de la Maternelle
- Trivia Queen, 3rd Grade Supreme (Ruby and the Booker Boys)
- Queen of the Classroom
- Baseball
- Queen/King of Kindergarten 10-Copy Mixed Floor Display with Riser and Signed Copies of Queen
- The making of Dr. Truelove
- Ruby Flips for attention
- The slumber party payback
- Stop, drop, and chill
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