{"product_id":"a-wreath-for-emmett-till-a-printz-award-winner-9780547076362","title":"A Wreath for Emmett Till: A Printz Award Winner","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e2006 Coretta Scott King Honor Book\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement. This martyr's wreath, woven from a little-known but sophisticated form of poetry, challenges us to speak out against modern-day injustices, to \"speak what we see.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNelson, Marilyn:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Marilyn Nelson is the author of Carver: A Life in Poems and Fields of Praise. She has won the Boston Globe Horn Book Award, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, a Newbery Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Marilyn lives in Storrs, Connecticut, where she is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNelson, Marilyn:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Marilyn Nelson is the author of Carver: A Life in Poems and Fields of Praise. She has won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, a Newbery Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Marilyn lives in Storrs, Connecticut, where she is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLardy, Philippe:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Philippe Tardy is an award winning illustrator whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and the Boston Globe.","brand":"Clarion Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50642309021970,"sku":"9780547076362","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d11f1e54-125a-4944-a4c2-44d9f0f04d16.jpg?v=1733063196","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-wreath-for-emmett-till-a-printz-award-winner-9780547076362","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}