Tracey Baptiste

Nelson Mandela: Nobel Peace Prize-winning Champion for Hope and Harmony Tracey Baptiste

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contributor Bio:  Baptiste, Tracey Tracey Baptiste was born in Trinidad, where she grew up on jumbie stories and fairy tales, and decided to be a writer at the wise old age of three. It took a few more years to get her first publishing contract. Her debut, a young adult novel titled "Angel s Grace, " was named one of the 100 best books for reading and sharing by New York City librarians. Tracey is a former teacher, textbook editor, ballerina, and amateur librarian who once started a library in her house in the hope that everyone would bring their books back late and she would be rich! You know, like other librarians. She is now a wife and mom and lives in New Jersey, where she writes and edits books for kids from a very cozy office in her house that is filled with more toys than she can count." The Jumbies" is her second novel.