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2020., General, Levine Querido Call No: 921 GAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking." -- Inside front jacket flap.
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Adolescent Call No: 970.00497 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The term 'Apple' is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly 'red on the outside, white on the inside.' Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking." -- Inside front jacket flap.
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-- TeachingBooks original author programs2004., Adult, Teachingbooks.net Click here to watch Summary Note: Page includes a brief, original movie featuring Chris Raschka in his New York City studio talking about his books and reading from and painting an illustration from A Poke In the I, a movie transcript, an in-depth written interview, and a comprehensive bibliography. Also includes a collection of off-site links to activity guides for Raschka's books, book award sites, and publishers' pages.
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-- TeachingBooks original author programs2004., Adult, Teachingbooks.net Click here to watch Summary Note: Page includes a brief, original movie featuring Chris Raschka in his New York City studio talking about his books and reading from and painting an illustration from A Poke In the I, a movie transcript, an in-depth written interview, and a comprehensive bibliography. Also includes a collection of off-site links to activity guides for Raschka's books, book award sites, and publishers' pages.
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-- TeachingBooks original author programs2004., Adult, Teachingbooks.net Click here to watch Summary Note: Page includes a brief, original movie featuring Chris Raschka in his New York City studio talking about his books and reading from and painting an illustration from A Poke In the I, a movie transcript, an in-depth written interview, and a comprehensive bibliography. Also includes a collection of off-site links to activity guides for Raschka's books, book award sites, and publishers' pages.
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[2017], Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: ROMANCE F ARC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When your namesake is Pablo Neruda - the greatest love poet of all time - finding "the one" should be easy. Callie could be that one for aspiring artist Neruda Diaz. She's creative and edgy, and nothing like hte girls Neruda typically falls for. But as Neruda begins to fall faster and harder than ever before, he is blindsided by the complicated nature of love - and art - in more ways than one. And when the relationships he's looked to for guidance threaten to implode, Neruda must confront the reality that love is crazier, messier, and more beautiful than he ever realized. .
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[2015]., Adolescent, Flux Call No: Realistic FIC Lyons Edition: First edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old aspiring artist Samantha Henderson, eager to learn about life and to get away from her father's political campaigns and her stepmother, refuses to give up on her new boyfriend, "X," even after he proves to be trouble, damaging her friendships and introducing her to drugs.
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2004., Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: 811 .54 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A poem from the author's first collection of poetry pays tribute to the community of talented artists that frequented her childhood home.
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2009., Adolescent, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: 811 SPI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Contributor biographical information Publisher description Summary Note: Collects twenty-three poems by Elizabeth Spires, in which she examines and describes the stone carvings sculpted by William Edmondson; and includes black-and-white photographs and four additional poems by Edmondson.
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1993., Stewart, Tabori & Chang Call No: 811 ANGELOU Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents Maya Angelou's poem illustrated by paintings and drawings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Features biographies of both the author and artist.
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c2009., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: 811 REY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin, a collaborative team of artist and poet, chronicle their experiences upon moving to New York to pursue their art.
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c2009., HarperTeen Call No: 811 .6 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin, a collaborative team of artist and poet, chronicle their experiences upon moving to New York to pursue their art.
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c2009., Juvenile, Joanna Cotler Books/Harper Teen Call No: 811.6 Rey Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Poetic prose and color artwork relates the story of two struggling artists, one black and one white, who move to New York City to make it big.
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Ã2009., Adolescent, Atheneum Call No: MEMOIR NF REY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Jason Reynold. Jason Griffin. One a poet. One an artist. One Black. One white. Two voices. One journey. To move to New York, and make it in New York. Best friends willing to have a hard life if it meant a happy life. All they needed was a chance. A reissue of a memoir of a moment in time within a lifetime of friendship"--Provided by publisher.
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2021., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Realistic Fic Zoboi Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Even though Amal Shahid is an artist and poet, he's still viewed as disruptive and unmotivated at his diverse art school. One fateful night at a local park, a fight breaks out between Amal and his friends and a group of white boys from a nearby gentrified neighborhood, leaving one of the white boys in a coma. Amal is convicted of the attack and sent to prison, even though he's not the one who put the boy in a coma. His despair and rage at having his bright future destroyed threaten to overcome him until he discovers the refuge and hope that his words and art give him.