Printz Award-winning author G. Neri explor es how to leave your adult brain behind so you can recapture the feeling o f first time experiences: first friendships\, first loves\, first dangers\ , first rebellions.
\nG. Neri is the Michael L. Printz and Coretta S cott King award-winning author of such books as "Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty" and "Ghetto Cowboy"\, which was made into the movie\, C oncrete Cowboy\, starring Idris Elba. His books have been translated into multiple languages in over 25 countries. They include "My Antarctica"\, "S afe Passage"\, "The Collectors"\, "Tru &\; Nelle"\, "Grand Theft Horse" \, "Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrap the World"\, "Hello\, I'm Johnny Cash" and "Chess Rumble". In 2017\, he was awarded the first of two National Sci ence Foundation grants that sent him to Antarctica\; he is currently co-ch air of the Antarctic Artists and Writers Collective. In 2023\, he was awar ded an honorary doctorate degree from SUNY for his literary and Antarctic outreach. He writes full-time while living on the Gulf Coast of Florida wi th his wife and daughter. You can find him online at www.gneri.com.
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