Ilene Cooper
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Ilene Cooper writes across genres and ages groups. She was born in Chicago and grew up in the city’s Rogers Park neighborhood. After graduating Sullivan High School, she attended the University of Missouri Journalism School where she majored in Radio and Television. She worked as an editorial researcher at Chicago’s WGN TV station for several years. She earned a master’s degree in library science from Rosary College.As a youth librarian, Ilene worked at several branches of the Chicago Public Library and at the Winnetka Public Library District before becoming the children’s books editor of ”Booklist”, the review journal of the American Library Association. She’s a popular speaker at schools and libraries and has written for the New York Times as well as for television. In her twenty year career, Cooper published over thirty books.
A woman in the House (and Senate) : | Absolutely Lucy #1: Absolutely Lucy | Absolutely Lucy #2: Lucy on the Loose | Absolutely Lucy #3: Look at Lucy! | Absolutely Lucy #4: Lucy on the Ball | Absolutely Lucy #5: Lucy’s Tricks and Treats | Absolutely Lucy #6: Thanks to Lucy | Absolutely Lucy #7: Lucy’s Holiday Surprise | An angel in my pocket | Buddy Love now on video / | Eleanor Roosevelt : | Faith and fury : | Frances dances / | Frances four-eyes / | Frances takes a chance / | I’ll see you in my dreams / | Jack : | Jake’s best thumb / | Jewish holidays all year round : | Lights, camera, attitude! / | Little Lucy | Little Lucy Goes to School | My co-star, my enemy / | No-thanks Thanksgiving / | Oprah Winfrey : | Sam I Am. | Seeing red / | Star spangled summer / | Stupid Cupid / | Susan B. Anthony / | The Annoying Team | The Dead Sea scrolls / | The Golden Rule | The Kids from Kennedy Middle School: Choosing Sides | The Kids from Kennedy Middle School: Mean Streak | The Kids from Kennedy Middle School: Queen of the Sixth Grade | The new, improved Gretchen Hubbard / | The winning of Miss Lynn Ryan / | The worst noel / | Trick or trouble / | Trouble in paradise /