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Angela Johnson


Born
in Tuskegee, Alabama
June 18, 1961


Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Angela Johnson is the author of the Coretta Scott King Honor picture book When I Am Old with You; as well as A Sweet Smell of Roses, illustrated by Eric Velasquez; Just Like Josh Gibson, illustrated by Beth Peck; and I Dream of Trains, which was also illustrated by Loren Long. She has won three Coretta Scott King Awards, one each for her novels Heaven, Toning the Sweep, and The First Part Last. In recognition of her outstanding talent, Angela was named a 2003 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Kent, Ohio.

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Average rating: 3.87 · 30,847 ratings · 4,686 reviews · 130 distinct works • Similar authors
The First Part Last (Heaven...
3.97 avg rating — 15,791 ratings — published 2003 — 24 editions
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Heaven (Heaven, #1)
3.59 avg rating — 2,544 ratings — published 1998 — 21 editions
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Bird
3.67 avg rating — 1,023 ratings — published 2004 — 15 editions
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A Sweet Smell of Roses
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A Cool Moonlight
3.68 avg rating — 580 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions
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A Certain October
3.51 avg rating — 539 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions
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Toning the Sweep
3.76 avg rating — 461 ratings — published 1993 — 17 editions
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A Girl Like Me
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Sweet, Hereafter (Heaven, #3)
3.58 avg rating — 397 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
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Heaven The First Part Last Sweet, Hereafter
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“My life is like tofu—it's what gets added that makes it interesting.”
― Angela Johnson, A Certain October
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“If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end...”
― Angela Johnson, The First Part Last
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“You don't have to know everything in the world. We aren't supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can't be interested and ask questions of other people.”
― Angela Johnson
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Polls

How many of the past Printz winners have you read?
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
A Step from Heaven by An Na
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers
The First Part Last by Angela Johnson
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Looking for Alaska by John Green
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
In Darkness by Nick Lake

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10 - 12
 
  12 votes 18.5%

1 - 3
 
  10 votes 15.4%

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  3 votes 4.6%

All 14!
 
  3 votes 4.6%

None
 
  1 vote 1.5%

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