Amiri and Odette
Subtitle: a dance for two
By: Walter Dean Myers ; paintings by Javaka Steptoe.
Contributors: Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893.; Steptoe, Javaka, 1971- ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780590680417
Subjects: Novels in verse; Love -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Ballets -- Stories, plots, etc; Fairy tales
Genres: Fiction.; Stories, plots, etc.
Description: Presents a modern, urban retelling in verse of the ballet in which brave Amiri falls in love with beautiful Odette and fights evil Big Red for her on the streets of the Swan Lake Projects.