{"id":5907,"date":"2026-07-02T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5907"},"modified":"2025-12-14T00:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:32:28","slug":"birthdays-241","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5907","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jack Gantos<\/strong> (born Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, 1951) writes books for children and young adults. His book <em>Joey Pigza Loses Control<\/em> received a 2001 Newbery Honor Award. His autobiography <em>Hole in My Life<\/em> earned both a 2003 Sibert Award and a 2003 Printz Award. Part autobiography, part novel, <em>Dead End in Norvelt<\/em> gained both the 2012 Newbery Medal and the 2012 Scott O\u2019Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Children can visit his website at:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackgantos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Jack Gantos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jean Craighead George<\/strong> (born Washington, DC, 1919; died Valhalla, New York, May 15, 2012) wrote and illustrated at least 100 books for children. Her <i>My Side of the Mountain<\/i> earned a Newbery Honor Award in 1960.\u00a0<i>Julie of the Wolves<\/i> received the 1973 Newbery Medal. \u00a0Children could visit a website devoted to her at:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeancraigheadgeorge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Jean Craighead George<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cynthia Kadohata<\/strong> (born Chicago, Illinois, 1956) has written at least twelve books for children. Her book <em>Kira-Kira<\/em> received the 2005 Newbery Medal. Other works include <em>Checked<\/em> and <em>A Place to Belong<\/em>. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cynthiakadohata.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cynthia Kadohata<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/5d\/Thurgood-marshall-2.jpg\/191px-Thurgood-marshall-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"168\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thurgood Marshall<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Thurgood Marshall<\/strong> (born Baltimore, Maryland, 1908; died Washington, DC, January 24, 1993) was the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court. For more than twenty years he directed the legal portion of the NAACP. He was victorious in the case of <i>Brown v Board of Education<\/i>, ending \u201cseparate but equal\u201d public schools. He was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson, and he was an associate justice for 24\u00a0years. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/aa\/marshallthrgd\/aa_marshallthrgd_subj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thurgood Marshall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Darren Shan<\/strong> (born London, England, 1972) writes horror and fantasy books for young adults. His books include the<em> Demonata<\/em> series and<em> The Saga of Darren Shan<\/em> series. Young adults can visit his website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenshan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darren Shan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Gantos (born Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, 1951) writes books for children and young adults. His book Joey Pigza Loses Control received a 2001 Newbery Honor Award. His autobiography Hole in My Life earned both a 2003 Sibert Award and a 2003 Printz Award. 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