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Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1971.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
The poignant story of a Harlem boy's devotion to a starving alley cat is illustrated with photographs taken from the CBS Children's Hour production.
Author
Publisher
Bulfinch Press, in association with the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Gordon Parks is a living legend. At age eighty-four, he can look back on accomplishments in many fields, including fiction, poetry, film, and music. But first and foremost, Parks is a photographer - a man whose indelible photojournalism, including two decades at Life magazine, has made him one of this century's most esteemed image makers. Accompanied throughout by Parks's recollections and reflections, the nearly 300 images collected in Half Past...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1107
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on Parks' semi-autobiographical novel, the film follows the journey of Newt Winger, a teenage descendant of Exodusters growing up in rural Kansas in the 1920s, as he experiences the bittersweet flowering of first love, finds his relationship with a close friend tested, and navigates the injustices embedded within a racist legal and educational system. Exquisitely capturing the bucolic splendor of its heartland setting, this landmark film tempers...
7) Shaft
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Detective John Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want to take over a chunk of the black underworld's uptown territory.
