Garvey's Choice by N Grimes

Garvey's Choice by N Grimes

This emotionally resonant novel in verse by award-winning author Nikki Grimes celebrates choosing to be true to yourself.

Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

★ 'Grimes returns to the novel-in-verse format, creating voice, characters, and plot in a series of pithy tanka poems, a traditional Japanese form similar to haiku, but using five lines... (w)ritten from Garvey's point of view, the succinct verses convey the narrative as well as his emotions with brevity, clarity, and finesse.'  —Booklist, starred review

★ "(A) sensitively written middle grade novel in verse... (readers) will fall hard for Garvey, a tender, sincere boy who dislikes athletics. Grimes writes about adolescent friendships in a way that feels deeply human. A short, sweet, satisfying novel in verse that educators and readers alike will love." —School Library Journal, starred review

★ "Grimes' newest follows a young black boy searching for his own unique voice, lost among his father's wishes and society's mischaracterizations. This compassionate, courageous, and hopeful novel explores the constraints placed on black male identity and the corresponding pains and struggles that follow when a young black boy must confront these realities both at home and in school.... This graceful novel risks stretching beyond easy, reductive constructions of black male coming-of-age stories and delivers a sincere, authentic story of resilience and finding one's voice." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"Grimes tells a big-hearted story of Garvey...(e)mploying the Japanese poetic form of tanka—five-line poems (or, here, stanzas) with haiku-like syllable counts—Grimes reveals Garvey's thoughts, feelings, and observations, the spare poetry a good vehicle for a young man's attempts to articulate the puzzle that is his life." —The Horn Book

Nikki Grimes, a New York Times bestselling poet, won the ALAN Award for Outstanding Contributions to Young Adult Literature in 2020. Her notable works include the modern classic Bronx Masquerade, the award-winning verse novel Dark Sons on the life of Ishmael, the memoir in verse Ordinary Hazards, which won the Printz Award, Siebert Honor, and Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, the celebrated Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and the New York Times bestseller Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice. Grimes has been included in the pages of IMAGE Journal of Arts and Religion, World, Today's Christian Woman, Poetry Magazine, Hunger Mountain, and the Academy of American Poets series, Poem a Day, among others. He is the author of ALA Notable Poetry Books Coming Sunday, At Jerusalem's Gate, and Voices of Christmas. Her poetry has appeared in various collections, including The Golden Shovel Anthology, where she was nominated for the Pushkin Prize. Grimes is a Corona, California native.

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ISBN 13	9781635925111
ISBN 10	1635925118
Titel	Garvey's Choice
Autor	N Grimes
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Astra Publishing House
Erscheinungsjahr	2021-09-14
Seitenanzahl	120
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.