Book Description
Inspiring memoir of the author's friendship with AIDS educator Pedro Zamora, who died of the disease after appearing on MTV's Real World.
Author : Judd Winick
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : pages
File Size : 29,30 MB
Release : 2000-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780613690768
Inspiring memoir of the author's friendship with AIDS educator Pedro Zamora, who died of the disease after appearing on MTV's Real World.
Author : Judd Winick
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780613315746
A touching tribute, in graphic comic-book style, to the friendship shared by cartoonist Judd Winick and Pedro Zamora of MTV's Real World. The book explores the friendship of these very different friends and the legacy to AIDS Awareness that Zamora le
Author : Judd Winick
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2000-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780805064032
In this inspiring memoir in graphic novel form, the author relates his friendship with an HIV-positive AIDS activist while they were roommates during the filming of the MTV show "Real World". Pedro Zamora showed how people afflicted with the AIDS virus can live with dignity and humor. Illustrations.
Author : K. Reynolds
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230206204
This book reappraises the place of children's literature, showing it to be a creative space where writers and illustrators try out new ideas about books, society, and narratives in an age of instant communication and multi-media. It looks at the stories about the world and young people; the interaction with changing childhoods and new technologies.
Author : Francisca Goldsmith
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838910084
Graphic novels have found a place on library shelves but many librarians struggle to move this expanding body of intellectual, aesthetic, and entertaining literature into the mainstream of library materials.
Author : David Yellin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1351813420
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Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 16,94 MB
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804172706
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Author : Matt Tavares
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0763693103
"Before Pedro Martainez pitched the Red Sox to a World Series championship, before he was named to the All-Star team eight times, before he won the Cy Young Award three times, he was a kid from a place called Manoguayabo in the Dominican Republic. Pedro loved baseball more than anything, and his older brother Ramaon was the best pitcher he'd ever seen. He dreamed of the day he and his brother could play together in the major leagues. This is the story of how that dream came true"--Dust jacket flap.
Author : Maureen Bakis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 1629140880
Every teacher knows that keeping adolescents interested in learning can be challenging—The Graphic Novel Classroom overcomes that challenge. In these pages, you will learn how to create your own graphic novel in order to inspire students and make them love reading. Create your own superhero to teach reading, writing, critical thinking, and problem solving! Secondary language arts teacher Maureen Bakis discovered this powerful pedagogy in her own search to engage her students. Amazingly successful results encouraged Bakis to provide this learning tool to other middle and high school teachers so that they might also use this foolproof method to inspire their students. Readers will learn how to incorporate graphic novels into their classrooms in order to: Teach twenty-first-century skills such as interpretation of content and form Improve students’ writing and visual comprehension Captivate both struggling and proficient students in reading Promote authentic literacy learning Develop students’ ability to create in multiple formats This all-encompassing resource includes teaching and learning models, text-specific detailed lesson units, and examples of student work. An effective, contemporary way to improve learning and inspire students to love reading, The Graphic Novel Classroom is the perfect superpower for every teacher of adolescent students!
Author : Nina Mickwitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137493321
Can comics be documentary, and can documentary take the form of, and thus be, comics? Examining comics as documentary, this book challenges the persistent assumption that ties documentary to recording technologies, and instead engages an understanding of the category in terms of narrative, performativity and witnessing. Through a cluster of early twenty-first century comics, Nina Mickwitz argues that these comics share a documentary ambition to visually narrate and represent aspects and events of the real world.