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A fun, interactive, and award-winning, online kindergarten-readiness learning solution for children ages 3 to 6 years. With hundreds of lessons in math, science, social studies, language and literacy, art, and music, the curriculum increases in difficulty as the user progresses through the program.
1) Luster
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties--sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage--with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Irvin Painter surprised everyone in her life by returning to school--in her sixties--to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. In Old in Art School, she travels from her beloved Newark to the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design; finds meaning in the artists she loves, even as she comes to understand how they may be undervalued; and struggles with the unstable balance...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's New Books: January 2023 Biographies
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_ Nonfiction
Children's Special Topics: Women's History Month 2024
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_ Nonfiction
Children's Special Topics: Women's History Month 2024
Description
"A powerful biography in poems about Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance-with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture"--
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: C. S. King Honor for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Sibert Honor for Nonfiction
Children's Book Awards: 2024 Winners and Honors
Children's New Books: February 2024 Biographies
Children's Awards: Sibert Honor for Nonfiction
Children's Book Awards: 2024 Winners and Honors
Children's New Books: February 2024 Biographies
Description
"When Jackie Ormes sees an opportunity, she takes it. She's a journalist, cartoonist, fashionista, philanthropist, and activist -- and she wants to use her artistry to bring joy and hope to Black people everywhere. But in post-World War II America, Black people are still being denied their civil rights, and Jackie has a dilemma: How can her art remain true to her signature Jackie joy, while also staying honest about the inequalities Black people have...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's New Books: October 2022 Biographies
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_ Nonfiction
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_ Nonfiction
Description
Tells the story of painter and teacher Alma Thomas, discussing her childhood, teaching career and activism.
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