Mr. Lincoln's Way is written by Patricia Polacco. This book is about a a boy who is a bully and is very prejudice. The new principle, Mr. Lincoln, has a very unique way of helping children over come their prejudice. He uses the beauty, differences, and simplicity of nature for this young bully to over come his. I would like to own this book myself. This is a book Contemporary Realistic Fiction and for all ages.
Patricia Polacco has written countless books including The Butterfly which is from and experience from her aunt Monique's life. I Hear The Sun is about a boys lonely, homeless life. He be friends Stephenie Michele who takes care of geese. Faith unfolds as the geese prepare to fly south for the winter and he says that the geese have invited him to go with them.
Patricia Polacco lived in Michigan and her family moved several times. Her family lived with her grandparents for a while. They turned to be some of her greatest inspiration for writing. Her parents divorced so she spent the school months with her mother and the summers with her dad. Instead of letting this situation bring her down she used it to her writing advantage. Polacco writes many of her books from her life experiences.
As a child, Polacco had difficulty in school. She didn't understand why she couldn't learn to read and do math like her classmates and was teased by a bully in her class because of this problem. She learn to read at the age of 14 years. Only then did she come to find out that she had a learning disability called dyslexia. Her teacher was the one that found out about her problem and got her the help she needed to succeed in school. Polacco states, "Now I know that being learning disabled does not means DUMB AT ALL." She understood that being learning disabled only meant that she had a different way of learning.
Like many other writers Patricia Polacco graduated with a degree of Fine Arts. At the age of 41 she started to put on paper the stories that her family told her, and the illustrating came into her easily since art was in her veins due to her disability. Polacco lives in Union City, Michigan and has opened her home and has writing seminars, storytelling festivals, literature conferences and more. She invites the public to come and take part in these events.
Check out her website and learn more about her life, books, activity ideas, and fun stuff.
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