- Bibi Belford
- http://www.bibibelford.com
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With a masters in bilingual literacy, and reading and ESL endorsements, Bibi Belford spent many years teaching reading to second language learners. When her students kept complaining that few books related to their experiences, she promised to write them one. Canned and Crushed, a middle-grade realistic fiction novel, is that book. Now, her former students are her biggest fans.
Her second novel, a middle-grade historical fiction set in Chicago in 1919 is dedicated to the memory of a Chicago teenager, Eugene Williams, who died in July 1919. This novel received the Christopher Award.
Her third novel, Another D for DeeDee received a Kirkus starred review and is about a fourth-grade girl with diabetes.
Bibi recently moved from the suburbs to Chicago where she’s volunteering in Chicago Public Schools and learning to love city living. She has four amazing grown-up kids and four of the cutest grandkids in the world--Ruby and Ellis in Washington, and Hazel and Hank in California. She loves hiking, biking, reading, quilting, and traveling. -
@BarbaraBelford
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