Jazmin's Notebook

Jazmin's Notebook PDF Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101667362
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Book Description
Her name is Jazmin, and like the music of her name, her life throbs and swings?a few flat notes to be sure, but also bursting with rich passages that rise and soar. Sitting on her stoop she fills her notebook with laughs, anger, and hope. There?s the risky lure of ?luscious-looking? men and the consequences of free haircuts. This is a fourteen-year-old so-real girl living in Harlem in the 1960?s, ?born with clenched fists? and big dreams, and strengthened by the love of a steadfast sister. Captured within pages of her tough, exuberant life are all the beauty, chaos, confusion, and clarity that accompany the excitement of exploring life?s possibilities?and discovering they are endless.

Jazmin's Notebook

Jazmin's Notebook PDF Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101667362
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Book Description
Her name is Jazmin, and like the music of her name, her life throbs and swings?a few flat notes to be sure, but also bursting with rich passages that rise and soar. Sitting on her stoop she fills her notebook with laughs, anger, and hope. There?s the risky lure of ?luscious-looking? men and the consequences of free haircuts. This is a fourteen-year-old so-real girl living in Harlem in the 1960?s, ?born with clenched fists? and big dreams, and strengthened by the love of a steadfast sister. Captured within pages of her tough, exuberant life are all the beauty, chaos, confusion, and clarity that accompany the excitement of exploring life?s possibilities?and discovering they are endless.

Planet Middle School

Planet Middle School PDF Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599902842
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Book Description
A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl.

Bronx Masquerade

Bronx Masquerade PDF Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425289761
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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Book Description
The beloved and award-winning novel now available in a new format with a great new cover! When Wesley Boone writes a poem for his high school English class, some of his classmates clamor to read their poems aloud too. Soon they're having weekly poetry sessions and, one by one, the eighteen students are opening up and taking on the risky challenge of self-revelation. There's Lupe Alvarin, desperate to have a baby so she will feel loved. Raynard Patterson, hiding a secret behind his silence. Porscha Johnson, needing an outlet for her anger after her mother OD's. Through the poetry they share and narratives in which they reveal their most intimate thoughts about themselves and one another, their words and lives show what lies beneath the skin, behind the eyes, beyond the masquerade.

Almost Zero

Almost Zero PDF Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425288552
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Book Description
The third book in the Dyamonde Daniels series, by bestselling author Nikki Grimes, is perfect for fans of the Keena Ford, Judy Moody, and Magnificent Mya Tibbs series and includes illustrations by Coretta Scott King honor winner R. Gregory Christie. Dyamonde really wants red high-top sneakers. Too bad they're so expensive! A classmate tells her it's her mom's job to give her what she needs, but when Dyamonde tries that argument, her mom teaches her a lesson by literally only giving her what she needs. Now Dyamonde is down to almost zero outfits! But then she finds out one of her friends has it much worse, and she's determined to do what she can to help.

My Man Blue

My Man Blue PDF Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0142301973
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Blue lost one boy to the streets and is determined that this time will be different. And Damon knows that even though he's the "man of the house," there's room for a friend like Blue in his life. At the end of the day, Damon has someone standing steadfast in his corner. Someone true . . . like Blue. Nikki Grimes's moving poems and Jerome Lagarrigue's bold paintings create an emotional and realistic bond of friendship between a man and a boy in a rough world.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama PDF Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141698464X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling picture-book biography of President Barack Obama is now in paperback. Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia to the plains of Kenya, he has held on to Hope. Even as a boy, Barack knew he wasn’t quite like anybody else, but through his journeys he found the ability to listen to Hope and become what he was meant to be: a bridge to bring people together. This is the moving story of our 44th President, told by Nikki Grimes and illustrated by Bryan Collier, both winners of the Coretta Scott King Award. Barack Obama has motivated Americans to believe with him, to believe that every one of us has the power to change ourselves and change our world.

Dark Sons

Dark Sons PDF Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310721458
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Book Description
Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.

At Break of Day

At Break of Day PDF Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0802851045
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
Summary: A retelling of the Biblical creation story with Jesus helping God with the creation of all the world, the animals and of Adam and Eve, and finally resting on the seventh day.

Come Sunday

Come Sunday PDF Author: Nikki Grimes
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN: 0802851347
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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Book Description
A little girl describes a typical Sunday from the moment her mother wakes her up through the different elements of the worship service in church.

Dancing in the Wings

Dancing in the Wings PDF Author: Debbie Allen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0803725019
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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Book Description
Sassy worries that her too-large feet, too-long legs, and even her big mouth will keep her from her dream of becoming a star ballerina. So for now she's just dancing in the wings, watching from behind the curtain, and hoping that one day it will be her turn to shimmer in the spotlight. When the director of an important dance festival comes to audition her class, Sassy's first attempts to get his attention are, well, a little wobbly. But Sassy just knows, somehow, that this is her time to step out from those wings, and make her mark on the world. Actress/choreographer Debbie Allen and Kadir Nelson collaborated on Brothers of the Knight, about which School Library Journal raved, "the strutting high-stepping brothers are full of individuality, attitude, and movement."