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Author:

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Title:

Amiri and Odette : a love story : a poem / by Walter Dean Myers ; paintings by Javaka Steptoe.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Scholastic Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Love--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Ballets--Stories, plots, etc.
Fairy tales.
Novels in verse.

Other Authors:

Steptoe, Javaka, 1971-
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893.

Summary:

Presents a modern, urban retelling in verse of the ballet in which brave Amiri falls in love with beautiful Odette and fights evil Big Red for her on the streets of the Swan Lake Projects.

ISBN:

0590680412
9780590680417

OCLC:

(OCoLC)228300669

LCCN:

2008011563

Locations:

MMPE553 -- Algona Public Library (Algona)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

CNPC792 -- Montezuma Public Library (Montezuma)

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)