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The Blackwoods
 

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The Blackwoods

Brandy Colbert

author of books for children and young adults

Books

NOVELS

The Blackwoods

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The Revolution of
Birdie Randolph

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The Voting Booth

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Finding Yvonne

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The Only Black Girls in Town

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Little & Lion

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Pointe

NONFICTION

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Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, Adapted for Young People
(co-adapted with
Jeanne Theoharis) 

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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina, Young Readers Edition (co-author with
Misty Copeland)

ANTHOLOGIES

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Up All Night

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Our Stories, Our Voices

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Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World

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Black Enough

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Three Sides of a Heart

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Toil & Trouble

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Feral Youth

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Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories

Bio

ABOUT BRANDY

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Brandy Colbert is the award-winning author of several books for children and teens, including Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which was the winner of the 2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and a finalist for the American Library Association's Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award. Her other acclaimed books include Pointe, The Only Black Girls in Town, and Stonewall Book Award winner Little & Lion. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, and her short stories and essays have appeared in several critically acclaimed anthologies for young people. She is on faculty at Hamline University's MFA program in writing for children, and lives in Los Angeles.

Photo credit: Photos by Jamaal

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Michael Bourret

Dystel, Goderich & Bourret

mbourret@dystel.com

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Publicity 

For The Blackwoods and 
Black Birds in the Sky, please contact:

HarperCollins publicity

hccbpublicity@harpercollins.com

For The Only Black Girls in TownThe Revolution of Birdie Randolph, Finding Yvonne, and Little & Lion, please contact:

Cheryl Lew

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Cheryl.Lew@hbgusa.com

For The Voting Booth, please contact:

Ann Day

Disney Publishing Worldwide

Ann.Day@disney.com

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