Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Can't get enough of Gerald, Keisha, and the gang? You're in luck. Tears of a Tiger was so wildly successful that Draper wrote a trilogy around it called The Hazelwood Trilogy.
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Even though Tears of a Tiger is the first book in the series, it actually happens after the second book, Forged by Fire. Since Draper hadn't planned on writing a trilogy, she didn't write them in order.
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Draper won the National Teacher of the Year in 1997 and got to meet President Bill Clinton at the White House to accept her award.
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