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Martin rising : requiem for a King

Pinkney, Andrea Davis (author.). Pinkney, J. Brian, (illustrator.).

Summary: In a rich embroidery of visions, musical cadence, and deep emotion, Andrea and Brian Pinkney convey the final months of Martin Luther King's life -- and of his assassination -- through metaphor, spirituality, and multilayers of meaning.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0545702534
  • ISBN: 9780545702539
  • Physical Description: 127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-127).
Formatted Contents Note: Henny Penny prelude -- Daylight. Sparkling-eyed child -- Happy Birthday, Daddy! -- Forcing forsythia -- Valentine -- Come -- Early signs of spring -- Roar! -- Weather news, baseball blues -- Kings in Memphis -- Smothered -- Shattered -- Still standing -- Sky truth -- Bravura bird -- Darkness -- Foreboding -- Home away from home -- Fever -- Storm -- Heaven's railroad -- Mine eyes have seen -- Sleep -- Day breaks -- Pillow fight! -- Soul fixin's -- Quick-strange! -- Powerless (time-out of time) -- Compass -- Pronouncement -- Chaos -- Baby James -- Unsolved history -- Desperate questions -- Lamentation -- Quiet storm -- Daddy -- Pilgrimage -- Dawn. Good Friday -- Easter Sunday -- Rejoice the legacy -- Author's reflections -- Artist's reflections -- Now is the time -- Time line -- 1968 time line for Martin Rising -- Sources -- Acknowledgments.
Target Audience Note:
730L Lexile
Middle School
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader MG 4.8 1 1 194045
Subject: King, Martin Luther Jr 1929-1968 Juvenile poetry
African American civil rights workers Biography Juvenile poetry
Civil rights workers United States Biography Juvenile poetry
African Americans Civil rights History Juvenile poetry
Genre: Laments.
Biographical poetry.

Available copies

  • 26 of 26 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 26 total copies.
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Memorial: Plated 2013: Presented By The Kevin Mundy Memorial Fund
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