Martin rising : requiem for a King /

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis (Author)
Other Authors: Pinkney, J. Brian (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of 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.