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Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile poetry.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile poetry.
Blacks -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile poetry.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile poetry.
Blacks -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Martin
rising : requiem for a
King
/ by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; paintings by Brian Pinkney.
by
Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
Scholastic Press, c2017.
Call #:
811.6 P655mr
Subjects
King
,
Martin
Luther
,
Jr
.,
1929-1968
--
Juvenile
poetry
.
Civil rights workers
--
United States
--
Biography
--
Juvenile
poetry
.
Blacks
--
Biography
--
Juvenile
literature.
ISBN:
9780545702539 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
0545702534 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
Uniform title:
Poems. Selections.
Description:
127 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Henny Penny prelude ; Daylight. Sparkling-eyed child ; Happy birthday, daddy! ; Forcing Forsythia ; Valentine ; Come ; Early signs of spring ; Roar ; Weather news, baseball blues ; Kings in Memphis ; Amothered ; Shattered ; Still standing ; Sky truth ; Bravura bird ; Darkness. Foreboding ; Home away from home ; Fever ; Storm ; Heaven's railroad ; Mine eyes have seen ; Sleep ; Day breaks ; Pillow fight! ; Soul fixin's ; Quick-strange! ; Powerless (time-out of time) ; Compass ; Pronouncement ; Chaos ; Baby James ; Unsolved history ; Desperate questions ; Lamentation ; Quiet storm ; Daddy ; Pilgrimage ; Dawn Good Friday ; Easter Sunday ; Rejoice the legacy.
Summary:
In a rich embroidery of visions, musical cadence, and deep emotion, Andrea and Brian Pinkney convey the final months of
Martin
Luther
King
's life
--
and of his assassination
--
through metaphor, spirituality, and multilayers of meaning.
Genre:
Biography,
Juvenile
.
Other authors:
Pinkney, J. Brian.
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Children's Nonfiction
811.6 P655mr
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Children's Black Nonfiction
811.6 P655mr
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Halifax North Memorial Public Library
Children's Black Nonfiction
811.6 P655mr
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