Christopher Myers
2) My pen
Author
Publisher
Disney * Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Description
An artist celebrates the many things he can do with a simple pen, and encourages the reader to do the same.
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Description
Through his collection of essays, originally published in Forbes magazine, entrepreneur Christopher Myers shares an honest account of building his company-BodeTree, an online financial management tool for small businesses. He provides invaluable insights and tips for others looking to start a small business. But this is no ordinary how-to book. Instead of proclaiming that he is a know-it-all dispensing the secrets to success, Christopher provides...
4) H.O.R.S.E
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A slam dunk from award-winning author and illustrator Christopher Myers, H.O.R.S.E. is a celebration of the sport of basketball, the art of trash-talking, and the idea that what's possible is bounded only by what you can dream.
6) Wings
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
p. cm.
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.
7) Pet
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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.
8) Jazz
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Description
Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music.
Author
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 28 cm.
Description
Recounts how the young Jacob Lawrence, as a boy recently arrived in Harlem, reacted to the world around him and translated his responses into art at an after-school arts center.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Putty Hill: A beautifully realized portrait of a close-knit community on the outskirts of Baltimore. At a neighborhood karaoke bar, friends and family gather to remember a young man who passed away. Knowing little about his final days, they attempt to reconstruct his life. In the process, they offer a window onto their own lives, an evocative picture of working-class America, dislocated from the progress and mobility around them, but united in pursuit...
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The thing was that me and Rise were blood brothers, but sometimes I really didn't know him…As Jesse fills his sketchbook with drawings and portraits of Rise, he tries to make sense of the complexities of friendship, loyalty, and loss in a neighborhood plagued by drive-by's, vicious gangs, and abusive cops.
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The creator of the bestselling graphic novels American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints, and now the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, discusses the latest installment of Secret Coders with writer and illustrator Christopher Myers (Fly!). Secret Coders: Paths & Portals is the second book in the wildly entertaining new series about a school whose mysteries are unraveled by a band of top-rate computer coding students.