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Once a month, the World Area Book Awards (Américas Award, Children's Africana Book Award, Freeman Book Award, Middle East Book Award, & South Asia Book Award) sponsor a free 60-minute webinar on a book recognized by one of the awards and facilitate a discussion with the author on how to incorporate the book into the classroom. We encourage educators to read the books with your colleagues, students, and community, and then join us to hear more from the author.
K12 Educators! You’re invited to an evening with Rimma Onoseta, author of the award winning young adult novel How You Grow Wings.
Sisters Cheta and Zam couldn’t be more different. Cheta, sharp-tongued and stubborn, never shies away from conflict—either at school or at home, where her mother fires abuse at her. Timid Zam escapes most of her mother’s anger, skating under the radar and avoiding her sister whenever possible. In a turn of good fortune, Zam is invited to live with her aunt’s family in the lap of luxury. Jealous, Cheta also leaves home, but to a harder existence that will drive her to terrible decisions. When the sisters are reunited, Zam alone will recognize just how far Cheta has fallen—and Cheta’s fate will rest in Zam’s hands. Debut author Rimma Onoseta deftly explores classism, colorism, cycles of abuse, how loyalty doesn’t always come attached to love, and the messy truths that sometimes, family is not a source of comfort, and that morality is all shades of grey.
How You Grow Wings has received numerous awards and accolades: A Children’s Africana Book Award Honor Winner, Kirkus Prize Finalist, Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, An SLJ Best Book of the Year, A Rise: A Feminist Book Project honoree, A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year, and Nautilus Silver Award Winner.
Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the book with the author and consider classroom applications.
WHEN: Thursday, February 15, 2024 at
7:00-8:00 pm Eastern
6:00-7:00 pm Central
5:00 - 6:00 pm Mountain
4:00-5:00 pm Pacific
WHERE: This event will take place on Zoom. After registering, participants will receive an email with the Zoom link for the event.
SPONSORS: This webinar is sponsored by the Children's Africana Book Award through Howard University Center for African Studies
REGISTRATION & MORE INFORMATION: Registration is required for this event. Register here: https://forms.gle/JSQH783Fau39W6ce9
For more information, please email brenda.randolph@howard.edu
The Américas Award is excited to organize this year's Global Reads Webinar Series with the support of the World Area Book Awards. More information coming soon for the rest of the series! Each webinar will feature a different World Area Book Award!