a journey on Route 66 : discovering dinosaur statues, muffler men, and the perfect breakfast burrito
Khor, Shing Yin
Presents a graphic memoir of artist and immigrant Shing Yin Khor and her trip with her dog Bug's to travel America's famous Route 66 to find out what it really means to "be American.".
The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.
Examines the life and work of twentieth-century American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, discussing her childhood, schooling, career and marriage, and later years.
Profiles the lives and works of influential African American artists and writers, including Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Rita Dove, Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrison.
The Core Four--Avery, Bree, Esha, and Jaelyn, campers at Storm Cliff Stables--discover that someone has been cutting down trees on Aunt Jane's property just as an old friend and neighbor of hers is pushing to buy a piece of her land.