Christopher Myers

"Two friends try to outdo each other on the basketball court in an out-of-this-world game of H.O.R.S.E"-- Provided by publisher.

What can your pen do?" Acclaimed artist Christopher Myers reveals the marvelous things his pen can do, meanwhile challenging and inspiring children to use their imaginations to create -- with a pen and some paper anything is possible!

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.

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.

"Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself. Until she doesn't. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life...

Presents blues lyrics that chronicle the history of the African-American experience, and includes information about the development of blues music.

American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland encourages a young ballet student, with brown skin like her own, by telling her that she, too, had to learn basic steps and how to be graceful when she was starting out, and that some day, with practice and dedication, the little girl will become a firebird, too. Includes author's note about dancers who led her to find her voice.

Jesse pours his heart and soul into his sketchbook to make sense of life in his troubled Harlem neighborhood and the loss of a close friend.

George faces a troublesome Komodo dragon that has slithered into his family's root cellar and is eating all their vegetables.

Thirteen-year-old Jake moves to Harlem where he discovers his artistic abilities and finds inspiration all around him. Based on the childhood of African American artist Jacob Lawrence in 1930s Harlem.