![]() ![]() She has been honored as the National Teacher of the Year and was selected as Ohio’s Outstanding High School Language Arts Educator and Ohio Teacher of the Year. Sassy and her seemingly bottomless sack are ready to greet the world with power and pizzazz!” Ms. I wanted to create a little girl with both spunk and sparkle, a child with grace and glitter. She wasted no time in telling me, ‘You need to write some books for girls like me!’ Sassy was born that day. ![]() “Something was missing in the books available to her. “Several years ago I met a little girl, an avid reader, who was about eight or nine years old,” she says. Draper explains how she came to write the Sassy series. She also wrote Forged by Fire, the 1998 Coretta Scott King Award winner, as well as Tears of a Tiger, winner of the CSK/John Steptoe New Talent Award, and The Battle of Jericho and November Blues, both Coretta Scott King Honor Books. ![]() She is also the author of many books for teens, including the New York Times bestsellers Copper Sun, the 2007 Coretta Scott King Award winner, and We Beat the Street. Draper is the acclaimed author of the Sassy series. ![]()
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