Book Detail
Pitch Black |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Landowne, Youme and Horton, Anthony | Illustrator: Landowne, Youme and Horton, Anthony | ||||||||
| Title: Pitch Black | Date: 2008 | ||||||||
| Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press | City: El Paso | ||||||||
| ISBN, paperback: 9781933693064 | ISBN, hardback: | ||||||||
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: Yes | ||||||||
| Family: | Young Adult: Yes | ||||||||
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General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): graphic novel, biography and autobiography | |||||||||
HSE Descriptor(s): language arts - reading |
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Summary: |
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| Graphic novel depicting the unlikely friendship developed between a homeless man and a woman riding the subway. They begin a conversation and discover they are both artists. The homeless man lives six stories below the New York pavement. Powerful illustrations and unflinching accounts of homelessness in New York's underground brings light to a marginalized population. | |||||||||
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| Have students write unsent letters to each of the artists. | |||||||||
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 Book Conversationshttp://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/book_conversations.pdf |
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Discussion Webs http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/discussion_webs.pdf |
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Literature Circles http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/lit_circles.pdf |
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Unsent Letters http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/unsent_letters.pdf |
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