Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z
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Irene Latham. (2020). Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z. Lerner Publishing Group.

Irene Latham. 2020. Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes From A to Z. Lerner Publishing Group.

Irene Latham, Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes From A to Z. Lerner Publishing Group, 2020.

Irene Latham. Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes From A to Z. Lerner Publishing Group, 2020.

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   • bioText: Irene Latham is the author of more than a dozen current and forthcoming works of poetry, fiction, and picture books. Her work includes Charlotte Huck Honor Book and ALA Notable Children's Book Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship (co-written with Charles Waters) and the Caldecott Honor Book The Cat Man of Aleppo(co-written by Karim Shamsi-Basha). In 2016 she won the ILA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award. Visit her at www.irenelatham.com.
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   • bioText: Charles Waters is a children's poet, author, anthologist and actor based in Georgia. His book Mascot (co-written with Traci Sorell) has received an American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor and a Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor. His other books (co-written with Irene Latham) include: African Town (winner of the 2023 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction), Dictionary For A Better World: Poems, Quotes and Anecdotes from A—Z, Be A Bridge, and the Charlotte Huck Honor book Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes and Friendship. You can visit him at: www.charleswaterspoetry.com
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