Ordinary Hazards

✍ Scribed by Grimmes, Nikki

• Publisher: Thinkingdom
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A Michael L. Printz Honor Book
A Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book
Six Starred Reviews — ★Booklist ★BCCB ★The Horn Book ★Publishers Weekly ★School Library Connection ★Shelf Awareness
A Booklist Best Book for Youth * A BCCB Blue Ribbon * A Horn Book Fanfare Book * A Shelf Awareness Best Children's Book * Recommended on NPR's "Morning Edition" by Kwame Alexander
"This powerful story, told with the music of poetry and the blade of truth, will help your heart grow."—Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and Shout
"[A] testimony and a triumph."—Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down
In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse.
Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted...