Author: Tony Medina
Publisher: Tu Books
ISBN: 9780606403948
Category : African American teenagers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. Alfonso can't wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school's hip-hop rendition of the classic play. But as he is buying his first suit, an off-duty police officer misatkes a clothes hanger for a gun and shoots Alfoso. When Alfonso wakes up in the afterlife, he's on a ghost train guided by well-known victims of police shootings, who teach him what he needs to know about this subterranean spiritual world. Meanwhile, Alfonso's family and friends struggle with their grief and seek justice for Alfonso in the streets.
I Am Alfonso Jones
Author: Tony Medina
Publisher: Tu Books
ISBN: 9780606403948
Category : African American teenagers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. Alfonso can't wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school's hip-hop rendition of the classic play. But as he is buying his first suit, an off-duty police officer misatkes a clothes hanger for a gun and shoots Alfoso. When Alfonso wakes up in the afterlife, he's on a ghost train guided by well-known victims of police shootings, who teach him what he needs to know about this subterranean spiritual world. Meanwhile, Alfonso's family and friends struggle with their grief and seek justice for Alfonso in the streets.
Publisher: Tu Books
ISBN: 9780606403948
Category : African American teenagers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. Alfonso can't wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school's hip-hop rendition of the classic play. But as he is buying his first suit, an off-duty police officer misatkes a clothes hanger for a gun and shoots Alfoso. When Alfonso wakes up in the afterlife, he's on a ghost train guided by well-known victims of police shootings, who teach him what he needs to know about this subterranean spiritual world. Meanwhile, Alfonso's family and friends struggle with their grief and seek justice for Alfonso in the streets.
Love to Langston
Author: Tony Medina
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584302834
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This inspiring biography on Langston Hughes celebrates his life through poetry.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584302834
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This inspiring biography on Langston Hughes celebrates his life through poetry.
Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story
Author: Peter Bagge
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: 1770463569
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A bold retelling of the life of the Their Eyes Were Watching God author Peter Bagge has defied the expectations of the comics industry by changing gears from his famous slacker hero Buddy Bradley to documenting the life and times of historical 20th century trailblazers. If Bagge had not already had a New York Times bestseller with his biography of Margaret Sanger, his newest biography, Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story, would seem to be an unfathomable pairing of author and subject. Yet through Bagge’s skilled cartooning, he turns what could be a rote biography into a bold and dazzling graphic novel, creating a story as brilliant as the life itself. Hurston challenged the norms of what was expected of an African American woman in early 20th century society. The fifth of eight kids from a Baptist family in Alabama, Hurston’s writing prowess blossomed at Howard University, and then Barnard College, where she was the sole black student. She arrived in NYC at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and quickly found herself surrounded by peers such as Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman. Hurston went on to become a noted folklorist and critically acclaimed novelist, including her most provocative work Their Eyes Were Watching God. Despite these landmark achievements, personal tragedies and shifting political winds in the midcentury rendered her almost forgotten by the end of her life. With admiration and respect, Bagge reconstructs her vivid life in resounding full-colour.
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: 1770463569
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A bold retelling of the life of the Their Eyes Were Watching God author Peter Bagge has defied the expectations of the comics industry by changing gears from his famous slacker hero Buddy Bradley to documenting the life and times of historical 20th century trailblazers. If Bagge had not already had a New York Times bestseller with his biography of Margaret Sanger, his newest biography, Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story, would seem to be an unfathomable pairing of author and subject. Yet through Bagge’s skilled cartooning, he turns what could be a rote biography into a bold and dazzling graphic novel, creating a story as brilliant as the life itself. Hurston challenged the norms of what was expected of an African American woman in early 20th century society. The fifth of eight kids from a Baptist family in Alabama, Hurston’s writing prowess blossomed at Howard University, and then Barnard College, where she was the sole black student. She arrived in NYC at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and quickly found herself surrounded by peers such as Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman. Hurston went on to become a noted folklorist and critically acclaimed novelist, including her most provocative work Their Eyes Were Watching God. Despite these landmark achievements, personal tragedies and shifting political winds in the midcentury rendered her almost forgotten by the end of her life. With admiration and respect, Bagge reconstructs her vivid life in resounding full-colour.
Boys of the Beast
Author: Monica Zepeda
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781643790954
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"Three teenage boy cousins on a road trip through California and the Southwest come to terms with truths about their families and themselves"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781643790954
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"Three teenage boy cousins on a road trip through California and the Southwest come to terms with truths about their families and themselves"--
Eva's Man
Author: Gayl Jones
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807028991
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
"The Best American Novelist Whose Name You May Not Know"—Calvin Baker, The Atlantic "A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers" -TAYARI JONES, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE "An American writer with a powerful sense of vital inheritance, of history in the blood." -John Updike, The New Yorker Eva's Man is a gripping psychological portrait of a woman unable to love for fear of pain. Imprisoned for the bizarre murder of her lover, Eva Median Canada weaves together memory and fantasy to reveal a life tormented by the brutality of sexual abuse and emotional silence. Brilliantly experimenting with language, Jones infuses her graphic and powerful narrative of the triple yoke of race, class, and gender with a rich musical and oral idiom.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807028991
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
"The Best American Novelist Whose Name You May Not Know"—Calvin Baker, The Atlantic "A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers" -TAYARI JONES, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE "An American writer with a powerful sense of vital inheritance, of history in the blood." -John Updike, The New Yorker Eva's Man is a gripping psychological portrait of a woman unable to love for fear of pain. Imprisoned for the bizarre murder of her lover, Eva Median Canada weaves together memory and fantasy to reveal a life tormented by the brutality of sexual abuse and emotional silence. Brilliantly experimenting with language, Jones infuses her graphic and powerful narrative of the triple yoke of race, class, and gender with a rich musical and oral idiom.
Being Fishkill
Author: Ruth Lehrer
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763697028
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Fishkill Carmel fends for herself, with her fists if need be — until a thwarted lunch theft introduces her to strange, sunny Duck-Duck, and a chance for a new start. Born in the backseat of a moving car, Carmel Fishkill was unceremoniously pushed into a world that refuses to offer her security, stability, love. At age thirteen-going-on-fifty, she begins to fight back. Carmel Fishkill becomes Fishkill Carmel, who deflects her tormenters with a strong left hook and conceals her secrets from teachers and social workers. But Fishkill’s fierce defenses falter once she meets eccentric optimist Duck-Duck Farina, and soon they, along with Duck-Duck’s mother, Molly, form a tentative family, even as Fishkill struggles to understand her place in it. This fragile new beginning is threatened by the reappearance of Fishkill’s unstable mother — and by unfathomable tragedy. Poet Ruth Lehrer’s young adult debut is a stunning, revelatory look at what defines and sustains “family.” And, just as it does for Fishkill, meeting Duck-Duck Farina and her mother will leave readers forever changed.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763697028
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Fishkill Carmel fends for herself, with her fists if need be — until a thwarted lunch theft introduces her to strange, sunny Duck-Duck, and a chance for a new start. Born in the backseat of a moving car, Carmel Fishkill was unceremoniously pushed into a world that refuses to offer her security, stability, love. At age thirteen-going-on-fifty, she begins to fight back. Carmel Fishkill becomes Fishkill Carmel, who deflects her tormenters with a strong left hook and conceals her secrets from teachers and social workers. But Fishkill’s fierce defenses falter once she meets eccentric optimist Duck-Duck Farina, and soon they, along with Duck-Duck’s mother, Molly, form a tentative family, even as Fishkill struggles to understand her place in it. This fragile new beginning is threatened by the reappearance of Fishkill’s unstable mother — and by unfathomable tragedy. Poet Ruth Lehrer’s young adult debut is a stunning, revelatory look at what defines and sustains “family.” And, just as it does for Fishkill, meeting Duck-Duck Farina and her mother will leave readers forever changed.
DeShawn Days
Author: Tony Medina
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584302285
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poems describe the life of an inner city boy.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584302285
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poems describe the life of an inner city boy.
Christmas Makes Me Think
Author: Tony Medina
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439603126
Category : African American boys
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A young African American boy reflects on the spirit of Christmas and thinks of ways he can behave in more caring ways and share what he has with others.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439603126
Category : African American boys
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A young African American boy reflects on the spirit of Christmas and thinks of ways he can behave in more caring ways and share what he has with others.
Black Comix
Author: Damian Duffy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984190652
Category : African American cartoonists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The immense popularity of comics and graphic novels cannot be ignored. But in light of the comics boom that has taken place over the past 10 years, the artists, writers and publishers that make up the vibrant African American independent comics community have remained relatively unknown - until now. Black Comix brings together an unprecedented collection of largely unheard of, and undeniably masterful, comics art while also framing the work of these men and women in a broader historical and cultural context. With a foreword by Keith Knight and over 50 contributors, including Phonzie Davis, Jan-Michael Franklin, Frances Liddell, Kenjji Marshall, Lance Tooks, Rob Stull, Ashley A. Woods and many, more, the cross section of comics genres represented includes manga, superheroes, humor, history, science fiction and fantasy. This book is a must-have for comics readers.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984190652
Category : African American cartoonists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The immense popularity of comics and graphic novels cannot be ignored. But in light of the comics boom that has taken place over the past 10 years, the artists, writers and publishers that make up the vibrant African American independent comics community have remained relatively unknown - until now. Black Comix brings together an unprecedented collection of largely unheard of, and undeniably masterful, comics art while also framing the work of these men and women in a broader historical and cultural context. With a foreword by Keith Knight and over 50 contributors, including Phonzie Davis, Jan-Michael Franklin, Frances Liddell, Kenjji Marshall, Lance Tooks, Rob Stull, Ashley A. Woods and many, more, the cross section of comics genres represented includes manga, superheroes, humor, history, science fiction and fantasy. This book is a must-have for comics readers.
Tales from la Vida
Author: Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
ISBN: 9780814254936
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
One-of-a-kind collection of Latinx comics that sheds light on Latinx experiences, exploring language, culture, history, and more.
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
ISBN: 9780814254936
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
One-of-a-kind collection of Latinx comics that sheds light on Latinx experiences, exploring language, culture, history, and more.