Martin rising : requiem for a King / by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; paintings by Brian Pinkney.

Title:

ISBN:

9780545702539

Personal Author:

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2018.

Physical Description:

127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Contents:

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.

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.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader MG 4.8 1 194045

Personal Subject:

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

Subject Term:

Civil rights workers--United States -- Biography

Genre:

Biographical poetry

Added Author:

Pinkney, J. Brian

Audience:

730L Lexile