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"America s Tea Parties: Not One But Four!" is the first nonfiction picture book to ever share that New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston each had their own tea party that took place around the same time as Boston s. "America s Tea Parties" provides background on the English taxation on the colonies, with emphasis on the people who stood up for their rights against the tyranny of the British as ships from the East India Company pulled into their harbors. It explains the Stamp and Tea Acts, the larger social and political issues that the colonies were having with England, why it was crucial that these tea parties happened, and the revolution that the tea demonstrations led to. This well-researched, eye-catching, entertaining, and informative volume is filled with archival illustrations and is great for primary research and as a read-aloud. It will surprise social studies classrooms, shake up US history curriculum, and delight American studies fans as New York, Boston, and Charleston finally join Boston in tea party fame. Award-winning and bestselling author Marissa Moss describes in detail the resilience and determination of the peoples of all four colonies. "America s Tea Parties" comes complete with a timeline, a bibliography, a fully searchable index, and an author s note that explains exactly how the author found this incredible little-told story of the tea parties that changed American history forever."



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Marissa Moss

I've been making children's books for a looooong time. I sent my first picture book to publishers when I was nine, but it wasn't very good and they didn't publish it. I didn't try again until I was a grown-up and then it took five years of sending out stories, getting them rejected, revising them and sending them back over and over until I got my first book. Now I've published more than forty books and each new one is still hard in its own way. Each one takes a lot of revising because I never get things right the first time. That used to frustrate me. Now I expect it. And I don't mind, because that gives me permission to make mistakes. It means I can take risks and try new things because I don't have to be perfect - I can always make changes.I had already published nearly a dozen books when I got the idea for Amelia's Notebook. I was buying school supplies for my son when I saw one of the black-and-white composition books. It reminded me of the notebook I had when I was a kid, so I bought it (for myself, not my son) and I wrote and drew what I remembered from when I was nine. Amelia's what came out. I didn't plan on the book becoming a series, but the first one sold so well and Amelia had so much to say, I kept on going.Now I'm playing with other notebook formats, like in the historical journals and Alien Eraser (where I get to play around with making comics, something I love) . My first chapter book, a long story with no pictures (well, a few) just came out. It's also my mystery, another challenge. And I'm playing with a graphic novel, something completely different. That's one of the things I love about writing and illustrating -- there are always new worlds to explore!



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