Tap Dancing on the Roof

Tap Dancing on the Roof
Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2007-10-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547394128

A sijo, a traditional Korean verse form, has a fixed number of stressed syllables and a humorous or ironic twist at the end. Like haiku, sijo are brief and accessible, and the witty last line winds up each poem with a surprise. The verses in this book illuminate funny, unexpected, amazing aspects of the everyday--of breakfast, thunder and lightning, houseplants, tennis, freshly laundered socks. Carefully crafted and deceptively simple, Linda Sue Park's sijo are a pleasure to read and an irresistible invitation to experiment with an unfamiliar poetic form. Istvan Banyai's irrepressibly giddy and sophisticated illustrations add a one-of-a-kind luster to a book that is truly a gem.

Dancing on the Edge of the Roof

Dancing on the Edge of the Roof
Author: Sheila Williams
Publisher: One World
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 034544874X

After a life of crime and poverty in her hometown of Columbus, Ohio, forty-two-year-old Juanita Lewis, craving a simpler life, drops everything, including her three grown, deadbeat children, to move to Montana. Reprint.

How Not to Be Popular

How Not to Be Popular
Author: Jennifer Ziegler
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2010-03-09
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0440240247

Maggie Dempsey is tired of moving all over the country. Her parents are second-generation hippies who uproot her every year or so to move to a new city. When Maggie was younger, she thought it was fun and adventurous. Now that she’s a teenager, she hates it. When she moved after her freshman year, she left behind good friends, a great school, and a real feeling of belonging. When she moved her sophomore year, she left behind a boyfriend, too. Now that they’ve moved to Austin, she knows better. She’s not going to make friends. She’s not going to fit in. Anything to prevent her from liking this new place and them from liking her. Only . . . things don’t go exactly as planned.

Flying Feet

Flying Feet
Author: Anna Burgard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2005-02-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Based on a true tale, two master dancers compete for the chance to teach the people of Ballyconneely, Ireland, how to dance.

Taking Off

Taking Off
Author: Jenny Moss
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 080272258X

In Clear Lake, Texas, a group of astronauts has begun training for the Challenger mission. Among them is a teacher named Christa McAuliffe, the woman chosen to be the first teacher in space. When Annie meets Christa, she is fascinated by her determination and courage. Following Christa's NASA journey through the news, Annie sees that Christa seems to be an ordinary person, like Annie herself, and yet Christa is reaching amazing heights-like flying on the space shuttle. Feeling so inspired, Annie is devastated when the shuttle launch turns to tragedy. But Annie must remember that Christa would have wanted her to keep reaching for her dreams, despite any obstacle.

Tap Dance Troubles

Tap Dance Troubles
Author: C. L. Reid
Publisher:
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2020
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1515871894

Click. Clack. Tap, tap, tap. Emma just started dance lessons and is determined to learn the routine perfectly. But dance isn't as easy as she had hoped. Thankfully Emma doesn't give up easily. Emma proves that hard work and practice will take those tap dance troubles away in this early chapter book from the Emma Every Day series. An ASL fingerspelling chart, glossary, and content-related questions complete the book.

Xander's Panda Party

Xander's Panda Party
Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2013
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547558651

Readers can party with a pandaNand all creatures tall and smallNin this endearing new picture book by Newbery Medalist Park and brilliant illustrator Phelan. Full color.

Dancing on Grapes

Dancing on Grapes
Author: Graziella Pacini Buonanno
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Grapes
ISBN: 9781590788332

A heartwarming, evocotive depiction of life in rural Tuscany, based on the author's own childhood

The One Thing You'd Save

The One Thing You'd Save
Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Clarion Books
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1328515133

If your house were on fire, what one thing would you save? Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park explores different answers to this provocative question in linked poems that capture the diverse voices of a middle school class. Illustrated with black-and-white art. When a teacher asks her class what one thing they would save in an emergency, some students know the answer right away. Others come to their decisions more slowly. And some change their minds when they hear their classmates' responses. A lively dialog ignites as the students discover unexpected facets of one another--and themselves. With her ear for authentic dialog and knowledge of tweens' priorities and emotions, Linda Sue Park brings the varied voices of an inclusive classroom to life through carefully honed, engaging, and instantly accessible verse.

What Makes That Black?

What Makes That Black?
Author: Luana
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2016
Genre: Aesthetics, Black
ISBN: 1483454797

What Makes That Black? The African-American Aesthetic identifies and defines seventy-four elements of the aesthetic through text and illustration. Using the magnificent camerawork of R.J. Muna, Sharen Bradford, Jae Man Joo, Rachel Neville, James Barry Knox, and more- as they point their cameras at Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and jazz artists such as Cécile McLorin Salvant and Wynton Marsalis- a specific artistic consciousness or sensibility visually unfolds. Luana even joins the camera crew as she shoots Oakland Street Graffiti--Backcover.