Tonya Bolden

Tonya Bolden was born in 1959, Tonya Bolden has written at least 29 books. Their most popular book is One Person, No Vote with 41 saves with an average rating of 4⭐.

Author Bio

Tonya K. Bolden is an American writer best known for her works of children's literature, especially children's nonfiction. Bolden has authored, co-authored, collaborated on, or edited more than forty books. Hillary Rodham Clinton praised her 1998 book 33 Things Every Girl Should Know in a speech at Seneca Falls, NY on the 150th anniversary of the first Woman's Rights Convention. Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl (2005), her children's biography of Maritcha Rémond Lyons, was the James Madison Book Award Winner and one of four honor books for the American Library Association’s Coretta Scott King Author Award. M.L.K.: Journey of a King (2007) won the Orbis Pictus award from the National Council of Teachers of English, the organization’s highest award for children’s nonfiction, and the next year, her George Washington Carver (2008) was one of five honor books for the same award. In 2016, the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, D.C. selected Bolden for its Nonfiction Award in recognition of her entire body of work, which, according to the award, has “contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for children.”

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Details	Rating	Readers Count
One Person, No Vote Carol Anderson	4	5 reads
Saving Savannah Tonya Bolden	3	3 reads
We Are Not Yet Equal Carol Anderson Tonya Bolden	5	2 reads
Dark Sky Rising Henry Louis Gates Jr. Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
Searching for Sarah Rector Tonya Bolden	3	1 read
Inventing Victoria Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A	0	0 reads
George Washington Carver Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
No Small Potatoes No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
Beautiful Moon: A Child's Prayer Tonya Bolden	5	1 read
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow Henry Louis Gates Jr. Tonya Bolden	5	1 read
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide Carol Anderson Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music Roberta Flack Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
M.L.K. Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
Rites of Passage: Stories About Growing Up by Black Writers from Around the World Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
Rock of Ages Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
Portraits of African-American Heroes Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
Rejuvenate! Rejuvenate!: Eartha Kitt	0	0 reads
Just family Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
Capital Days Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
Through Loona's door Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
And Not Afraid To Dare Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
Finding family Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
The Champ: The Story of Muhammad Ali Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
33 Things Every Girl Should Know: Stories, Songs, poems, and Smart Talk by 33 Extraordinary Women Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads
Crossing Ebenezer Creek Tonya Bolden	0	0 reads