Title Ordinary hazards : a memoir / Nikki Grimes.

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Honesdale, Pennsylvania : WordSong, 2019.

Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1978520~S1

Location	Call No.	Status
Naper Blvd. Adult Biography	BIO GRIMES	AVAILABLE
Nichols Adult Biography	BIO GRIMES	AVAILABLE

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Description	325 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm
Note	Lexile : 840
Summary	Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, poet Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night--and discovered the magic and impact of writing. In this memoir Nikki shows how the power of those words helped her conquer the hazards--ordinary and extraordinary--of her life.
Audience	12-19 Brodart.
	7-12 Brodart.
Subject	Grimes, Nikki.
	Grimes, Nikki -- Childhood and youth.
	Grimes, Nikki -- Poetry.
	Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
	African American women poets -- Biography.
	African American poets -- Biography.
	Creative writing -- Therapeutic use -- Biography.
	American poetry -- African American authors -- Biography.
	Poets, American.
	Authorship -- Therapeutic use.
	Poetry -- Therapeutic use.
	Creative writing -- Therapeutic use.
Genre	Poetry.
	Autobiographies.
	Autobiographical poetry.
ISBN	9781713701323
	9781629798813 (hardcover)
	1629798819 (hardcover)

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