Myers, Christopher
Summary: An artist celebrates the many things he can do with a simple pen, and encourages the reader to do the same.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney * Hyperion Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MYEMyers, Christopher.
Summary: A black cat wanders through the streets of a city.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MYEMyers, Christopher.
Summary: Ikarus Jackson, the new boy in school, is outcast because he has wings. But his resilient spirit inspires one girl to speak up for him in this thought provoking story about celebrating individuality.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MYEMyers, Christopher.
Summary: "Two friends try to outdo each other on the basketball court in an out-of-this-world game of H.O.R.S.E"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MYEMyers, Christopher.
Summary: A compilation of tall tales collected by folklorist Zora Neale Hurston during her travels in the Gulf states during the 1930s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 MYECopeland, Misty
Summary: With spare, poignant text, American Ballet Theatre soloist Misty Copeland writes of a young dancer whose confidence is fragile. Through hard work and dedication, Misty shows her how she can reach the same heights as Misty, even becoming the Firebird, Misty Copeland's signature role. An affecting story echoing Misty Copeland's own remarkable and meteoric rise in ballet, paired with vibrant,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG COPMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTempest 2001
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MYECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MYECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Myers 2013Copeland, Misty.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Copeland 2014Emezi, Akwaeke
Summary: There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC EMECarroll, Lewis
Summary: Reinterprets Lewis Carroll's famous poem about the dreaded Jabberwock.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821.8 CARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821.8 CARSummary: With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history: traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015