Alan Lawrence Sitomer is a critically acclaimed young adult
author as well as an award winning educator, having been named
California’s Teacher of the Year 2007.
HOMEBOYZ is the final volume in his young adult trilogy of novels that
began with THE HOOPSTER and HIP-HOP HIGH SCHOOL.
Alan is also the author of HIP-HOP POETRY AND
THE CLASSICS, a text being used in classrooms across the United States
to engage disengaged students in both poetry and school.
Furthermore, Mr. Alan (as his students like to
call him) is an inner-city high school English teacher, a professor in
the Graduate School of Education at Loyola Marymount University and a
nationally renowned speaker specializing in engaging reluctant readers
who received the 2004 award for Classroom Excellence from the Southern
California Teachers of English and the 2003 Teacher of the Year honor
from California Literacy.
Alan Lawrence Sitomer lives with his wife, Tracey, daughter, Sienna, and
dog, Paris, in Los Angeles, California.
