Title:
Dreamer / Akim Aliu ; written with Greg Anderson Elyseé ; illustrated by Karen De la Vega and Marcus Williams ; editred by Michael Petranek ; lettering by Micah Myers ; color by Warnia Sahadewa.
ISBN:
9781338787603
9781668876107
9781338787610
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic : Kaepernick Publishing, 2023.
©2023
Physical Description:
118 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
General Note:
"A graphic novel memoir" -- Cover.
"Growing up black in the world of hockey" -- Cover.
Summary:
"Akim Aliu -- also known as "Dreamer" -- is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence he often experienced both on and off the ice. This is a gut-wrenching and riveting graphic novel memoir that reminds us to never stop dreaming, and is sure to inspire young readers everywhere."-- Back cover.
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Audience:
Decoding demand: 93 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 83 (very high) Structure demand: 87 (very high) Lexile
Audience:
GN580L Lexile
OCLC Number:
on1350636251
Availability:
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