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Amyra León Ashley Lukashevsky

Concrete Kids

Amyra León,  Ashley Lukashevsky

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English
Penguin Workshop
13 October 2020
Poetry (Children's&YA); Personal & social issues: racism & multiculturalism (Children's&YA)
Series: Pocket Change Collective
Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us.

In Concrete Kids, playwright, musician, and educator Amyra Le n uses free verse to challenge us to dream beyond our circumstances -- and sometimes even despite them.

A Goddard CBC's Social Justice Prize Nominee . A YALSA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults

""I will close my eyes and disappear into the pages of this book for many years to come.""--Hanif Abdurraqib (New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead in The Rain- Notes to A Tribe Called Quest)

""Amyra's wondrous awe for life in all its terror and splendor is inspiring to witness.""--Rosario Dawson (award-winning actor, singer, and activist)

""A moving, inspiring love letter to and about 'the concrete kids. The kids with a melanin kiss.'""-- Kirkus Reviews

""Leon's powerful book will embolden readers find their own ways of speaking out against injustice."" -- Booklist, Starred Review

""A raw and complex free verse exploration of self-love, Blackness, womanhood, and healing. A timely, essential -purchase for all young adult collections."" -- School Library Journal, Starred Review

In Concrete Kids, playwright, musician, and educator Amyra Le n uses free verse to challenge us to dream beyond our circumstances -- and sometimes even despite them.

Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists.

Concrete Kids is an exploration of love and loss, melody and bloodshed. Musician, playwright, and educator Amyra Le n takes us on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem, as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience. In her signature free-verse style, she invites us all to dream with abandon--and to recognize the privilege it is to dream at all.
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Illustrated by:   Ashley Lukashevsky
Imprint:   Penguin Workshop
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 160mm,  Width: 114mm,  Spine: 9mm
Weight:   137g
ISBN:   9780593095195
ISBN 10:   0593095197
Series:   Pocket Change Collective
Pages:   96
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 12 years
Audience:   Young adult ,  Preschool (0-5)
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Ashley Lukashevsky is an illustrator and visual artist born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, currently based in Los Angeles. Ashley uses illustration and art as tools to strengthen social movements against systemic racism, sexism, and anti-immigrant policy. She aims to tear down these systems of oppression through first envisioning and drawing a world without them. Her clients include Refinery29, Broadly, The Washington Post, Planned Parenthood, Girls Who Code, GOOD Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, ACLU, Red Bull, Snapchat, Air Jordan, and Logo TV.

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