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Turn the Page and You Don't Stop: Sharing Successful Chapters in Our Lives with Youth

by Patrick M. Oliver

Paperback: 156 pages
Publisher: Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Series Pub. Date:  May 1, 2006
ISBN: 0977949907

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"Patrick Oliver is on-target with his passion for our children and literacy. The stories he has assembled will inspire and motivate young people across this nation to read and achieve at the highest level."
—Salome Thomas-EL, Educator and author of I Choose to Stay 

"This book will surely be valuable to educators, youth advocates and social practitioners as an inspiration to young people who may or may not consider themselves "readers". It may prove a useful resource.  Some of the contributors identify important programs and opportunities for the curious."
—From the Foreword, Useni Eugene Perkins, author Harvesting New Generations

Contributing writers and artist: Cory Anderson, Melrita Bonne, Traycee Lynn Bryant, Kenny Carroll, Reverend Marrice Coverson, Frank Frazier, Patrice Gaines, Dr. Sandra Y. Govan, Hadassah Hickman, Victor Hill, Allyson Horton, Wade Hudson, Andrew Sekou Jackson, Parneshia Jones, Janis F. Kearney, Haki R. Madhubuti, Dr. Julianne Malveaux, Dr. D. H. Melhem, David C. Miller, E. Ethelbert Miller, Opal Moore, Useni Eugene Perkins, Felicia Pride, Jamel Shabazz, Irene Smalls, Dr. Ivory Achebe Toldson, Lynnette C. Velasco and Latoya Wolfe

About the Author
Patrick M. Oliver is currently Program Director for the Open Book Program a city-wide reading project in Chicago, IL. Mr. Oliver is founder of the Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Series and co-founder of the Black Male Development Symposium. A respected marketing consultant and program development specialist, Mr. Oliver has organized and promoted literary events throughout the country featuring award-winning authors.

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http://www.speakloudly.com/