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Brandy Colbert

Brandy Colbert

Brandy Colbert writes fiction and nonfiction for young readers, including the Stonewall Book Award-winning Little & Lion and The Revolution of Birdie Randolph.

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The Revolution of Birdie Randolph

2019 · Contemporary

2 editions: Print · 2019 | eBook · 2019

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From Stonewall Award winner Brandy Colbert comes a novel about first love, family, and hidden secrets that will stay with you long after turning the last page. Dove "Birdie" Randolph works hard to be the perfect daughter and follow the path her parents have laid out for her: She quit playing her beloved soccer, she keeps her nose buried in textbooks, and she's on track to finish high school at the top of her class. But then Birdie falls hard for Booker, a sweet boy with a troubled past... whom she knows her parents will never approve of. When her estranged aunt Carlene returns to Chicago and moves into the family's apartment above their hair salon, Birdie notices the tension building at home. Carlene is sweet, friendly, and open-minded -- she's also spent decades in and out of treatment facilities for addiction. As Birdie becomes closer to both Booker and Carlene, she yearns to spread her wings. But when long-buried secrets rise to the surface, everything she's known to be true is turned upside down.

Print · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers · 2019 · English

eBook · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers · 2019 · English

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More About Brandy Colbert

Brandy Colbert writes fiction and nonfiction for young readers, working across young-adult and middle-grade literature. Her books include Pointe, Little & Lion, The Revolution of Birdie Randolph, The Only Black Girls in Town, and The Blackwoods.

Little & Lion won the Stonewall Book Award in 2018. The recognition marks one of the major honors attached to Colbert's growing body of work for younger readers.

Colbert published The Revolution of Birdie Randolph in 2019. Together with her other fiction and nonfiction, the novel forms part of a bibliography that ranges across formats and age groups while remaining centered on young people's experiences.

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Selected awards and honors

Colbert's work has received the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the Stonewall Book Award and was a finalist for the ALA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award.

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  1. Brandy Colbert research source 2 ↗
  2. It’s a Brandy Colbert World | Hachette Book Group ↗
  3. Brandy Colbert research source 3 ↗
  4. Interview: Brandy Colbert - Geeks OUT ↗
  5. Brandy Colbert | Creative Artists Agency ↗
  6. Episode 298: Character-Driven YA and Middle Grade — Brandy Colbert ↗
  7. An Exclusive Interview with Brandy Colbert - She Reads ↗