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  Scholastic Trio Individual Theme Unit Set 5, Language Arts - Author Study (Walter Dean Myers), Grades 5-6 Visit the Scholastic TRIO website for more information. Scholastic Trio is a series of themed reading collections that engage students at THREE levels of reading ability - Below, On, and Above - all in the SAME content-area topic. Now your whole class can participate in learning about a single science, social studies, or language arts topic as they develop strategic reading $193.35 Paperback Book Collection | Grades 5-6

  
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  Amiri and Odette by Walter Dean Myers and Javaka Steptoe A boy searches for his newfound love among the city streets, to find that, unwarily, she's been caught in the arms of an evil street lord who means her harm. It is only through perseverance and undying love that the girl is returned to the safety of her one true love. Lyrical text and stunning mixed media artwork make for a powerful recasting of the classic ballet Swan Lake. Set among the asphalt of a housing project and the concrete of a basketball court, Walter Dean Myers' compelling work is delivered with rhythms that twist, hover, pounce, and inspire. For Amiri and Odette, love is hard when the streets are mean. Their dance for two becomes a fight for three, and their only chance is to hold fast to the power of being together as one. Part poem, part love story, part rap and rhapsody, AMIRI AND ODETTE: A DANCE FOR TWO celebrates hearts that beat forever. Accompanied by the collage-on-cinder-block paintings of Javaka Steptoe, this genre-breaking volume sets a new stage for a classic story. $17.99 books;hardcover books;hardcovers | Ages 12 and Up

  
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Amiri and Odette

A Love Story

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Author: Walter Dean Myers

Illustrator: Javaka Steptoe

Interest Level:
6-8

Grade Level Equivalent:
5.3

Age:
11-13

Genre:
Poetry and Rhymes, Legends and Myths

Subject:
African American, Neighborhood Life, Romantic Relationships

Acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers explores the sweet, sharp, spark of love between two teens, in a modern retelling of the Swan Lake ballet.

Set on the asphalt of a housing project and the concrete of a basketball court, this compelling work by Walter Dean Myers is delivered with rhythms that twist, hover, pounce, and inspire.  For Amiri and Odette, love is hard when the streets are mean.  Their dance for two becomes a fight for three, and their only chance is to hold fast to the power of being together as one.  Part poem, part love story, part rap and rhapsody, Amiri and Odette: A Love Story is a celebration of two hearts that beat forever.  Accompanied by the collage-on-cinder-block paintings of Javaka Steptoe, this genre-breaking volume sets a new stage for a classic story.

"...Steptoe's collage-on-cinder-block paintings, touched with magical realism, offer beautiful overviews of the neighborhood streets, the buildings, and the basketball court." — Booklist

"The ultra-cool, emotionally hot setting gives the story new power. Myers’s words carry the force of blows; Steptoe's collages teem with bodies colliding and overlapping. The language swings from pop lyric to Shakespearean, sometimes in the same breath. Steptoe gets gritty, working directly on slabs of asphalt, a street effect intensified by the graffiti-like use of multicolored and multisize fonts in the text. His figures are shadowed with ghostly blue; they leap, ward off blows, embrace, argue." — Publishers Weekly