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Let's Get Together
 

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Let's Get Together

Brandy Colbert

author of books for children and young adults

Books

NOVELS

Let's Get Together

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The Only Black Girls in Town

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Little & Lion

The Blackwoods

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The Revolution of
Birdie Randolph

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Pointe

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The Voting Booth

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Finding Yvonne

NONFICTION

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Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, Adapted for Young People
(co-adapted with
Jeanne Theoharis) 

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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina, Young Readers Edition (co-author with
Misty Copeland)

ANTHOLOGIES

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Up All Night

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Our Stories, Our Voices

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Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World

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Black Enough

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Three Sides of a Heart

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Toil & Trouble

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Feral Youth

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Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories

Bio

ABOUT BRANDY

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Brandy Colbert is an author of books for children and teens, including Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, The Only Black Girls in Town, and Little & Lion. Her work has received the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the Stonewall Book Award, and was a finalist for the American Library Association’s Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award. Her writing has been published in The New York Times and several national magazines, and her short stories and essays have appeared in critically acclaimed anthologies for young people. She earned a journalism degree from Missouri State University and served as a faculty member in Hamline University's MFA program in writing for children. Born and raised in the Missouri Ozarks, she now lives in Los Angeles.

Photo credit: Photos by Jamaal

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Inquiries

Michael Bourret

Dystel, Goderich & Bourret

mbourret@dystel.com

School Visits + Speaking Requests

The Author Village

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hello@theauthorvillage.com

Publicity 

For Let's Get Together, The Blackwoods, and 
Black Birds in the Sky, please contact:

HarperCollins publicity

hccbpublicity@harpercollins.com

For The Only Black Girls in TownThe Revolution of Birdie Randolph, Finding Yvonne, and Little & Lion, please contact:

Cheryl Lew

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Cheryl.Lew@hbgusa.com

For The Voting Booth, please contact:

Ann Day

Disney Publishing Worldwide

Ann.Day@disney.com

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