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Derrick Barnes is an American author. He is known for writing several popular series of children's books and is a former staff writer for Hallmark greeting cards. In 2018 Barnes received several awards that include the Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award for his 2017 book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut.
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- 1 2 "Tidigare mottagare av Silverstjärnorna" (in Swedish). International Board on Books for Young People–Sweden (ibby.se). Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- "John Kilaka". In Anita Theorell, Afrika har ordet , Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2010, ISBN 978-91-7106-673-2. (in Swedish)
