Christopher Myers
3) My pen
Author
Publisher
Disney * Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An artist celebrates the many things he can do with a simple pen, and encourages the reader to do the same.
4) Black cat
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A black cat wanders through the streets of a city.
5) Monster
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
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.
7) Jazz
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music.
8) Firebird
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Wings
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 630L
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Harlem: a poem
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A poem celebrating the people, sights, and sounds of Harlem.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
As the Fens attack his home in New City, fifteen-year-old Jon is sent into the Wilderness with other young Okalians to search for the Ancient City, but what he finds is something very different.
16) Looking like me
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Jeremy sets out to discover all of the different "people" that make him who he is, including brother, son, writer, and runner.
17) Pet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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.
There are no monsters anymore. In the city of Lucille, Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. Then Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's...
Series
Mission impossible film volume 6
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.