{"id":5605,"date":"2026-06-24T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5605"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:43:27","slug":"birthdays-233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5605","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kimberly Brubaker Bradley<\/strong> (born Fort Wayne, Tennessee, 1967) has written at least fifteen books for children. She earned a 2016 Newbery Honor Award for <em>The War that Saved My Life.\u00a0<\/em>Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/kimberlybrubakerbradleycom.wordpress.com\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kimberly Brubaker Bradley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Betty Cavanna<\/strong> (born Camden, New Jersey, 1901; died Vezelay, France, August 13, 2001) wrote books for young adults. Her works include <em>Paintbox Summer<\/em> and <em>Spice Island Mystery<\/em>. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/cavanna-betty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Betty Cavanna<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kathryn Lasky<\/strong> (born Indianapolis, Indiana, 1944) has written at least 100 books for children and young adults. She wrote the <em>Royal Diaries<\/em> series and the <em>Dear America<\/em> series. <em>A Night Journey<\/em> received the 1981 Sydney Taylor Book Award for older readers. <em>Sugaring Time<\/em> was a 1984 Newbery Honor Book. Children could visit her website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynlasky.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kathryn Lasky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jean Marzollo<\/strong> (born Manchester, Connecticut, 1942; died Cold Spring, New York, April 10, 2018) wrote at least 100 books for children. Her books include the <em>I Spy<\/em> series. Children could visit her website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeanmarzollo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean Marzollo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ellison Onizuka<\/strong> (born Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, 1946; died in the <em>Challenger<\/em> disintegration, January 28, 1986) was an aerospace engineer aboard the <em>Challenger<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (born Fort Wayne, Tennessee, 1967) has written at least fifteen books for children. She earned a 2016 Newbery Honor Award for The War that Saved My Life.\u00a0Children can learn more at: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. Betty Cavanna (born Camden, New Jersey, 1901; died Vezelay, France, August 13, 2001) wrote books for young adults. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5605' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[410,413,412,6277,411],"class_list":["post-5605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-betty-cavanna","tag-ellison-onizuka","tag-jean-marzollo","tag-june-24-birthdays","tag-kathryn-lasky","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5605"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26528,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605\/revisions\/26528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}