Christopher Myers

An artist celebrates the many things he can do with a simple pen, and encourages the reader to do the same.

A black cat wanders through the streets of a city.

What can your pen do?" Acclaimed artist Christopher Myers reveals the marvelous things his pen can do, meanwhile challenging and inspiring children to use their imaginations to create -- with a pen and some paper anything is possible!

In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.

American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland encourages a young ballet student, with brown skin like her own, by telling her that she, too, had to learn basic steps and how to be graceful when she was starting out, and that some day, with practice and dedication, the little girl will become a firebird, too. Includes author's note about dancers who led her to find her voice.

"Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself. Until she doesn't. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life...

Presents blues lyrics that chronicle the history of the African-American experience, and includes information about the development of blues music.

Examines the events and people that have shaped America, providing portraits of figures such as Chief Tecumseh, President Abraham Lincoln, and musician Jimi Hendrix, and featuring lyrical, free-verse poetic text.

Baby falls asleep to a thunderstorm in the city, where all of the sounds blend together into a lullaby.

"This is the story of one family. From eighteenth-century Sierra Leone to present-day Harlem, the thread of a remarkable history runs through the heart of every member of the Lewis family - a family who can still see remnants of the shackles that enslaved some of its members. This is a story of pride, struggle, love, and the plot of land that binds generations together."-- Provided by publisher.