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poets who wrote young adult literature
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Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams (1919-2017)

journalist, editor-in-chief, poet, opinion journalist, editing staff

Tell freedom
The view from Coyaba
The Coyaba Chronicles
This island now
The Black experience in the 20th century
A night of their own
Jamaica
Wild conquest
Venok Maǐklu Udomo
Mine boy
The Path of Thunder
Dark testament
Return to Goli
Je ne suis pas un homme libre
Dark treatment ...
"Crackling day" ; "The toilet" ; "A chip of glass ruby" in Somehow Tenderness Survives edited by Hazel Rochman
The world of mankind
A blackman speaks of freedom!
Ralph Fletcher
Ralph Fletcher (born 1953)

poet

  • Dartmouth College, Columbia University
The One O'Clock Chop
I am wings
A writer's notebook
Flying solo
A Writing Kind Of Day
How Writers Work
Spider Boy
Hello, harvest moon
Craft lessons
Fig pudding
Boy Writers
What a writer needs
Marshfield dreams
Poetry Matters
Nonfiction Craft Lessons
Twilight comes twice
Buried alive
The Sandman
Walking trees
How to Write Your Life Story
Relatively Speaking
Moving Day
The circus surprise
Uncle Daddy
Tommy Trouble and the Magic Marble
Medico-chirurgical notes and illustrations
Craft Lessons
Guy-Write
Sketches from the case book
Pyrotechnics on the page
Teaching the Qualities of Writing
Also known as Rowan Pohi
Meine Familie und andere Katastrophen.
Marshfield Memories
Joy Write
Breathing in, breathing out
Ordinary things
Grandpa never lies
Reflections
Writing Workshop
The Writing Teacher's Companion
Have you been to the beach lately?
Mentor author, mentor texts
A few notes on cruelty to animals; on the inadequacy of penal law; on general hospitals for animals; &c. &c. &c
The magic nest
Focus Lessons
Lessons for the writer's notebook
Live writing
Water planet
Worlds Loneliest Elephant
World's Loneliest Elephant
Making nonfiction from scratch
How Writer's Work Postcard
Fig Pudding
Paul Biegel
Paul Biegel (1925-2006)

poet, translator, journalist

  • Ignatius Gymnasium
De kleine kapitein
Sleutelkruid
Nachts kommen sie.
De brieven van de generaal
The Elephant Party and Other Stories
Nachtgeschichten.
Virgilius van Tuil overwintert bij de mensen
De twaalf rovers
De rode prinses
The seven-times search
Nachtverhaal
The clock struck twelve
LA Maldicion De Monetoscuro/the Curse of Dark Mountain
Virgil Nosegay and the Wellington boots
The gardens of Dorr
Virgil Nosegay and the Hupmobile
The Elephant Party and Other Stories
Der kleine Kapitän
The tin can beast and other stories
Jiri
El Pais De Las Siete Torres/the Land of the Seven Towers
Haas
The curse of the werewolf
El Osito Berreon / The Bear
De zwarte weduwe
Robber Hopsika
Virgilius van Tuil
The twelve robbers
De wenende aap van Kleef
Twaalf sloeg de klok
El Pais de Las Siete Torres / The Land of Seven Towers
The little captain
Het stenen beeld
Virgil Nosegay and the cake hunt
Anderland
De tuinen van Dorr
Los doce bandoleros (Botella Al Mar)
Wie je droomt ben je zelf
De soldatenmaker
El Pequeno Capitan (Nuevos Horizontes)
De karabijn
Parti'r Eliffant (Welsh Edition)
De dwergjes van Tuil
Rozengeur en maneschijn
Wegloop
Het grote geheimboek
Natalia Matolinets
Natalia Matolinets (born 1990)

poet, journalist, organizational founder

  • Lviv University
Maria Teresa Kiszczak
Maria Teresa Kiszczak (1934-2023)

economist, poet, blogger

Eva Völler
Eva Völler (born 1956)

judge, lawyer, poet lawyer

Miren Agur Meabe
Miren Agur Meabe (born 1962)

translator, poet, teacher

Tony Medina
Tony Medina (born 1965)

poet

  • Binghamton University