Jazmin's notebook, Nikki Grimes
Type
Label
Jazmin's notebook, Nikki Grimes
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Intended audience
Middle School
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Jazmin's notebook
Oclc number
36430615
Responsibility statement
Nikki Grimes
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning, MG, 5.8, 3.Accelerated Reader, MG, 5.8, 3.0, 27715
Summary
Jazmin, an African American teenager who lives with her older sister in a small Harlem apartment in the 1960s, finds strength in writing poetry and keeping a record of the events in her sometimes difficult life. Her name is Jazmin, and like the music of her name, her life throbs and swings--a few flat notes to be sure, but also bursting with rich passages that rise and soar. Sitting on her stoop she fills her notebook with laughs, anger, and hope. There's the risky lure of luscious-looking men and the consequences of free haircuts. This is a fourteen-year-old so-real girl living in Harlem in the 1960's, born with clenched fists and big dreams, and strengthened by the love of a steadfast sister. Captured within pages of her tough, exuberant life are all the beauty, chaos, confusion, and clarity that accompany the excitement of exploring life's possibilities--and discovering they are endless
Target audience
adolescent
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Diaries -- Juvenile fiction
- Sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Black interest
- African American families -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- African American girls -- Harlem, New York City -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
- African American girls + Diaries -- Juvenile fiction
- Poetry -- Juvenile fiction
- Sisters -- Harlem, New York City -- Juvenile fiction
- Authorship -- Juvenile fiction
Content
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance3
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Subject12
- Diaries -- Juvenile fiction
- Sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Black interest
- African American families -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- African American girls -- Harlem, New York City -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
- African American girls + Diaries -- Juvenile fiction
- Poetry -- Juvenile fiction
- Sisters -- Harlem, New York City -- Juvenile fiction
- Authorship -- Juvenile fiction
- Content1
- Mapped to1