Javaka Steptoe
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of the Randolph Caldecott Medal and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning...
Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocked to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art work had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Five urban middle school students, their teacher, and other community members relate how a school project to build the world's largest tetrahedron affects the lives of everyone involved.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Before he became one of the greatest guitar players of all time, Jimi Hendrix was a boy who loved to paint and listen to records, and who asked himself an unusual question: could someone paint pictures with sound?
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a modern, urban retelling in verse of the ballet in which brave Amiri falls in love with beautiful Odette and fights evil Big Red for her on the streets of the Swan Lake Projects.