{"product_id":"9780593095195-concrete-kids","title":"Leon Amyra - Concrete Kids - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: A Goddard CBC's Social Justice Prize Nominee A YALS a 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Concrete Kids\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Leon Amyra, Ashley Lukashevsky\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Penguin Putnam Inc\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780593095195\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 96 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 10\/13\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\nSeries: Pocket Change Collective\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Personal \u0026amp; Social Issues: Racism \u0026amp; Multiculturalism (Children's \/ Teenage)","brand":"Leon Amyra","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49596467740977,"sku":"IN-G-9780593095195","price":10.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780593095195.jpg?v=1754887637","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780593095195-concrete-kids","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}