"Every summer a young girl looks forward to her cousins coming to town. All the cousins have nicknames for themselves, and this summer the young girl is determined to earn her own nickname as well"--

Angela Shanté is a writer and author of the children¿s book The Noisy Classroom, as well as a poet, editor, and educator, with a Masters in Elementary Education and an MFA in Creative Writing. She has taught elementary school for ten years. Angela grew up in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles, California.