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Award-Winning Author to Visit Monroe Middle School

Greg Neri will visit the South Tampa school today.

From Hillsborough County Public Schools Online:

Monroe Middle School will host a meet and greet with the award-winning author Greg Neri on Thursday, May 24, at 1 p.m. in the Monroe multipurpose room of the school located in Sun Bay South.

Neri is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, artist, and digital media producer from Los Angeles. He is the author of the middle-grade books Ghetto Cowboy, Chess Rumble, and Yummy. Neri writes for reluctant readers, especially urban boys in hopes that his books will open the minds of readers.

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Neri is a recipient of the International Reading Association Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award, is an ALA Notable Children’s Book winner, and received the Coretta Scott King Award.


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