Author: Nikki Grimes
Series: Meet the Author
Narrator: Nikki Grimes
Unabridged: 0 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 01/01/2012
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
Nikki Grimes was born in Harlem, but grew up in many different parts of New York. As a foster child from a broken home, she moved from place to place, always saying goodbye to new friends. Reading and writing became her survival tools. When she had no one else to talk to, Grimes wrote poems and stories about the things that were bothering her. As an avid reader, she checked out library books by day and read at night by flashlight.
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