01201cam a2200313 4500 1163525157 TxAuBib 20090225120000.0 080421s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008011563 9780590680417 0590680412 TxAuBib Myers, Walter Dean, 1937- Amiri and Odette : a love story / a poem by Walter Dean Myers ; paintings by Javaka Steptoe. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, 2009. 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm. 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. 20090225. Novels in verse. African Americans Fiction. Ballets Stories, plots, etc. Fairy tales. Love stories. Steptoe, Javaka, 1971-, ill. Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893 Lebedinoe ozero. TXKIP