About the Author

Alicia D. Williams is a teacher. Her students created a list of what they wanted you to know about her:

1. Ms. Williams is Da BOMB.

2. The awesome thing about her is that she cares about all of us.

3. She makes me like history.

4. In her class we dance, sing, and unleash our own personalities.

5. She makes us laugh with all her jokes.

6. She won’t let us be unsuccessful.

7. She always brings her happy spirit.

8. She gets us.

9. She is funny, fantastic, bodacious.

10. She’s from Detroit, Michigan, and now she lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her daughter, Nay.

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Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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