Tar Beach

Resource Information

The work Tar Beach represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Pekin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Tar Beach

Statement of responsibility

Faith Ringgold

Creator

• Ringgold, Faith

Author

• Ringgold, Faith

Subject

• African American families -- Juvenile fiction
• African American folk art
• African American folk art -- Juvenile fiction
• African American girls
• African American girls -- Juvenile fiction
• African Americans -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Fiction
• Artists
• Artists -- United States
• Authors' autographs (Provenance) -- Ringgold -- 1991
• Blacks -- Fiction
• Caldecott Medal
• Children's stories
• Children's stories
• City and town life
• City and town life -- Juvenile fiction
• 1900-1999
• Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winners
• Desire
• Desire -- Juvenile fiction
• Dreams
• Dreams -- Fiction
• Dreams -- Fiction
• Dreams -- Juvenile fiction
• Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 1991
• Fiction
• Fiction
• Flight
• Flight -- Fiction
• Flight -- Fiction
• Flight -- Fiction
• Flight -- Juvenile fiction
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
• Home
• Home -- Juvenile fiction
• Imagination
• Imagination -- Juvenile fiction
• Intergenerational relations
• Intergenerational relations -- Juvenile fiction
• JUVENILE FICTION -- Historical -- United States -- 20th Century
• JUVENILE FICTION -- People & Places -- United States -- African American
• JUVENILE FICTION -- Social Themes | Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile works
• Liberty
• Liberty -- Juvenile fiction
• Manners and customs
• New York (State) -- New York | Harlem
• Novels
• Novels
• Prejudices
• Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction
• Reading Rainbow book
• Review copies (Printing)
• United States
• Wishes
• Wishes -- Juvenile fiction
• Coretta Scott King Award
• African American families

Genre

• Dust jackets (Bindings)
• Fiction
• Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile works
• Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winners
• Reading Rainbow book
• Review copies (Printing)
• Children's stories
• Authors' autographs (Provenance)
• Novels

Language

eng

Summary

• A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt story of the same name
• Illus. in full color. "Ringgold recounts the dream adventure of eight-year-old Cassie Louise Lightfoot, who flies above her apartment-building rooftop, the 'tar beach' of the title, looking down on 1939 Harlem. Part autobiographical, part fictional, this allegorical tale sparkles with symbolic and historical references central to African-American culture. The spectacular artwork resonates with color and texture. Children will delight in the universal dream of mastering one's world by flying over it. A practical and stunningly beautiful book."--(starred) Horn Book

Member of

• Families All Matter

Awards note

• Coretta Scott King Award, 1992
• Caldecott Honor Book, 1992
• Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Book Award, 1993.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[E]

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

AD790L

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

• Grades K-4
• LG
• K-2

LC call number

• PZ7.R4726
• PS3568.I572

LC item number

• Tar 1991
• T37 1991

Literary form

novels

Reading level

• 3.4
• 3.4
• 2.9

Series statement

Families All Matter

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader
• Accelerated Reader AR
• Reading Counts RC

Target audience

juvenile