Book Lists/Libros

Graffiti

Wall and Piece
by Banksy
Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world.

Scrawl: Dirty Graphics & Strange Characters
by Ric Blackshaw and Liz Farrelly
A survey of a group of artists who have come up from the streets and reconfigured the hand-made.

Street Art: The Spray Files
by Louis Bou
An exciting look at an art movement that has been around for decades but that is just now beginning to emerge in the mainstream.

R.I.P.: Memorial Street Art
by Martha Cooper and Joseph Sciorra
This classic collection of photographs documents the best of New York City's memorial murals.

Street Graphics New York
by Barry Dawson
New York's streets are acutely observed and presented in a designer's sourcebook and an urban explorer's inspirational guidebook.

Futura
by Ben Drury and Liz Farrelly
A unique sketchbook, photo-album and confessional revisiting a remarkable career, from igniting the 1980s New York graffiti and hip-hop movements to redefining 1990s London sleeve art.

Obey: E Pluribus Venom: The Art of Shepard Fairey
by Shepard Fairey
Comprised of artworks designed to question the symbols and methods of the American machine and American dream and also celebrate those who oppose blind nationalism and war.

Graffiti World: Street Art from Five Continents
by Nicholas Ganz
In addition to over 2000 vivid illustrations, this book provides a history of the art and interviews with some of the artists.

Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents
by Nicholas Ganz
Features the work of over 125 of the most prominent women artists from around the world.

Graffiti L.A.: Street Styles and Art
by Steve Grody
A comprehensive and visual history of graffiti in Los Angeles.

Chicano Graffiti and Murals: The Neighborhood Art of Peter Quezada
by Sojin Kim
A study of an artist's murals and the pride and rejuvenation they bring to a northeast Los Angeles neighborhood.

Street Logos
by Tristan Manco
A celebration of the developments in twenty-first century graffiti, an essential sourcebook for all art and design professionals and a delight to everyone excited by the vitality of the street.

Street Art and the War on Terror: How the World's Best Graffiti Artists Said No to the Iraq War
edited by Eleanor Mathieson
Including a chronology of opposition to the war organized by continent, and commentaries by the graffiti artists themselves, this work constitutes an essential record of political opposition since 9/11.

Burning New York
by James T. and Karla Murray
New York is the undisputed graffiti capital of the world, the epicenter of a vibrant international scene that attracts artists from all over the globe. This book features the latest and most exciting graffiti art being created today.

The Birth of Graffiti
by Jon Naar
A classic book of photographs documenting the emergence of New York graffiti.

RackGaki: Japanese Graffiti
by Ryo Sanada and Suridh Hassan
Dedicated to Japan's rackgaki (graffiti) scene, this book illustrates the work of major graffiti artists working in Japan today.

Autograf: New York City’s Graffiti Writers
by Peter Sutherland
Graffiti writers are outlaws, unknown artists whose faces are known only to their peers. Treated as criminals by the law and dismissed as artists by the establishment, writers are perceived as either alluring anti-heroes or loathsome vandals, and usually remain anonymous to their audience. But not to photographer Peter Sutherland. With an eye for style, Sutherland captures all of the gritty glory and glamour of the graffiti world and its warriors.

Dance

Kissing Tennessee and Other Stories from the Stardust Dance
by Kathi Appelt
Graduating eighth-graders relate their stories of love and heartbreak that have brought them to Dogwood Junior High's magical Stardust Dance.

Swan (series)
by Kyoko Ariyoshi
Masumi is a 16-year old attending a small ballet school in a remote part of Japan. When she gains admission to a famous school, she finally has the chance to realize her dreams. There, due to a lack of proper training, she is the weakest student in the group. Can she endure the hardship, the struggles and the fierce competition in the world of ballet?

The Morganville Vampires Book 2: The Dead Girls' Dance
by Rachel Caine
Claire Danvers has her share of challenges -- like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains, homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. When a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance, hell really breaks loose.

Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You
by Dorian Cirrone
Sixteen-year-old Kayla, a ballet dancer with very large breasts, and her sister Paterson, an artist, are both helped and hindered by classmates as they confront sexism, conformity, and censorship at their high school for the arts while still managing to maintain their sense of humor.

Mao's Last Dancer
by Li Cunxin
Chosen from millions of children to serve in Mao's cultural revolution by studying at the Beijing Dance Academy, Li knew ballet would be his family's best opportunity to escape the bitter poverty in his rural China home. From one hardship to another, Li persevered, never forgetting the family he left behind.

Ten Cents a Dance
by Christine Fletcher
In 1940s Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby hopes to escape poverty by becoming a taxi dancer in a nightclub, but the work has unforeseen dangers and hiding the truth from her family and friends becomes increasingly difficult.

Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life
by Russell Freedman
A photo-biography of the American dancer, teacher, and choreographer who was born in Pittsburgh in 1895 and who became a leading figure in the world of modern dance.

Princess of the Midnight Ball
by Jessica Day George
A retelling of the tale of twelve princesses who wear out their shoes dancing every night, and of a former soldier who follows them in hopes of breaking the curse.

House of Dance
by Beth Kephart
During one of her daily visits across town to visit her dying grandfather, fifteen-year-old Rosie discovers a dance studio that helps her find a way to bring her family members together.

21 Proms
edited by David Levithan and Daniel Ehrenhaft
Stories about proms from authors Libba Bray, Ned Vizzini, John Green and more.

A Dance of Sisters
by Tracey Porter
Although almost totally consumed by her ballet training and her obsession with her weight, thirteen-year-old Delia finds time to worry about her older sister Pearl, who has been sent away to a private school.

Confessions of a Backup Dancer
by Anonymous, as told to Tucker Shaw
Kelly Kimball spent a summer as a backup dancer for Darcy Barnes, the biggest pop star in the world. Kelly's got the real story on Darcy, her life, her family, and her entourage -- and she's spilling it here for the first time.

To Dance: A Memoir
by Siena Cherson Siegel
The author describes how she first decided she wanted to be a ballerina at the age of six, and how that dream carried her from her home in Puerto Rico to performing with the New York City Ballet.

Shiva’s Fire
by Suzanne Fisher Staples
In India, a talented dancer sacrifices friends and family for her art.

The Brothers Torres
by Coert Voorhees
Frankie finally finds the courage to ask his long-term friend, Julianne, to the Homecoming dance, which ultimately leads to a face-off between a tough senior whose family owns most of their small town, and Frankie's soccer-star older brother and his gang-member friends.

Music

Audrey, Wait!
by Robin Benway
While trying to score a date with her cute co-worker at the Scooper Dooper, sixteen-year-old Audrey gains unwanted fame and celebrity status when her ex-boyfriend, a rock musician, records a breakup song about her that soars to the top of the Billboard charts.

Rock Star, Superstar
by Blake Nelson
When Pete, a talented bass player, moves from playing in the high school jazz band to playing in a popular rock group, he finds the experience exhilarating even as his new fame jeopardizes his relationship with girlfriend Margaret.

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
by Jeff Chang
Based on original interviews with DJs, rappers, graffiti writers, activists and gang members, this work chronicles the events, the ideas, the music and the art that marked the hip-hop generation's rise from the ashes of the 1960s into the new millennium.

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
High school student Nick O'Leary, member of a rock band, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes in order to avoid his ex-sweetheart.

LBD: It’s a Girl Thing
by Grace Dent
Barred by their overprotective parents from attending a rock music festival, fourteen-year-olds Ronnie, Fleur, and Claude, also known as "Les Bambinos Dangereuses," decide to stage their own music festival at Blackwell School.

Just Listen
by Sarah Dessen
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.

The Musician’s Daughter
by Susanne Dunlap
In eighteenth century Vienna, Austria, fifteen-year-old Theresa seeks a way to help her mother and brother financially while investigating the murder of her father, a renowned violinist in Haydn's orchestra at the court of Prince Esterhazy, after his body is found near a gypsy camp.

Fat Kid Rules the World
by K. L. Going
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.

Lemonade Mouth
by Mark Peter Hughes
A disparate group of high school students thrown together in detention form a band to play at a school talent show and end up competing with a wildly popular local rock band.

Born to Rock
by Gordon Korman
High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.

Heavy Metal and You
by Christopher Krovatin
High schooler Sam begins losing himself when he falls for a preppy girl who wants him to give up getting wasted with his best friends and even his passion for heavy metal music in order to become a better person.

Lang Lang: Playing with Flying Keys
by Lang Lang with Michael French
Life story of Lang Lang, a Chinese pianist, from his early days of poverty and sacrifice to his coming-of-age as a renowned musician.

Guitar Girl
by Sarra Manning
Seventeen-year-old Molly Montgomery never planned on becoming famous. Starting a band with her best mates was just a way to have some fun. But when the group is joined by a charismatic bad-boy, things start happening.

Harlem Hustle
by Janet McDonald
Eric "Hustle" Samson, a smart and street-wise seventeen-year-old dropout from Harlem, aspires to rap stardom, a dream he naively believes is about to come true.

The Last Days
by Scott Westerfeld
As an ancient evil stirs beneath the streets of New York City, infecting rats and people like a plague, five quirky teens come together to form a "New Sound" band whose music seems to have paranormal power.

Pay the Piper
by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple
When Callie interviews the band, Brass Rat, for her school newspaper, her feelings are ambivalent, but when all the children of Northampton begin to disappear on Halloween, she knows where the dangerous search must begin.

Gangsta Rap
by Benjamin Zephaniah
When teenage Ray and his two friends, Prem and Tyronne, form a successful rap band in the London's East End where they live, they soon find themselves embroiled in increasingly violent gang warfare.

Drama

Acting for Young Actors: The Ultimate Teen Guide
by Mary Lou Belli and Dinah Lenney
Acting for Young Actors, aimed at teens and tweens, lets kids hone their skills and develop their craft.

The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist
by Michael Chabon
Operating from a secret headquarters under the boards of the Empire Theater, the Escapist and his crack team of associates roam the globe performing amazing feats of magic and coming to the aid of all those who languish in the chains of oppression.

The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss' skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

King of Shadows
by Susan Cooper
While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself.

Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story
by Lisa Fiedler
In a story based on the Shakespeare play, Ophelia describes her relationship with Hamlet, learns the truth about her own father, and recounts the complicated events following the murder of Hamlet's father.

Zap
by Paul Fleischman
A non-stop farce that juxtaposes seven different plays
-- performed simultaneously -- with a comic genius that brings to mind masters from Monty Python to the Marx Brothers.

The Juliet Club
by Suzanne Harper
When high school junior Kate wins an essay contest that sends her to Verona, Italy, to study Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" over the summer, she meets both American and Italian students and learns not just about Shakespeare, but also about star-crossed lovers -- and herself.

Suite Scarlett
by Maureen Johnson
Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Marvin is stuck in New York City for the summer working at her quirky family's historic hotel, but her brother's attractive new friend and a seasonal guest who offers her an intriguing and challenging writing project improve her outlook.

The Joys of Love
by Madeleine L'Engle
After graduating from college in 1941, Elizabeth Jerrold pursues her dream of becoming a stage actress, landing a position as an apprentice in a summer theater company where she hones her acting skills and falls in love with an aspiring director.

Dramarama
by E. Lockhart
Spending their summer at Wildewood Academy, an elite boarding school for the performing arts, tests the bond between teens Sadye and her best friend Demi.

Saving Juliet
by Suzanne Selfors
Seventeen-year-old Mimi Wallingford's stage fright and fight with her mother on the closing night of Romeo and Juliet are nothing compared to the troubles she faces when she and her leading man are transported to Shakespeare's Verona, where she decides to give the real Juliet a happy ending.

The Actual Real Reality of Jennifer James
by Gillian Shields
While competing on a reality television show being filmed at her English high school, shy and bookish Jennifer James records her experiences in her diary.

Nerdlandia: A Play
by Gary Soto
A humorous play in which Martin, a Chicano nerd, undergoes a transformation with the help of his friends and experiences true love. Includes a glossary of Spanish words and phrases used in the dialogue.

The Wednesday Wars
by Gary D. Schmidt
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

DVDs

Bomb It
Global graffiti culture is where the love of art and ego clashes with law and order. On top of a fresh soundtrack of punk and funk, this explores the many manifestations of 'bombing' - the act of committing artistic crime with spray paint.

El Cantante
It was the 1970s and a new sound was echoing through New York City like a revolution. It was hot, it was sexy, it was salsa. From a smoky club in the barrio, one man would rise above the rest to become an icon still beloved by fans today.

Center Stage: Turn It Up
All Kate has ever wanted in life has been to perform with the American Ballet Academy. But when she doesn't get in, she learns that it takes more than just natural talent to succeed in the dance world. With a turn in a cutting-edge hip-hop club and the help of a former hockey player-turned-dancer, she may just manage to make her dreams come true.

A Chorus Line
After narrowing down hundreds of Broadway hopefuls, Zach leads a select group of dancers on the tryout of their lives.

Dance With Me
Rafael, a Cuban immigrant, is looking for love. Ruby is looking for the first prize in the world open dance championships. But she might win more than just a trophy.

Dirty Dancing
It's summer, 1963. Baby is vacationing with her parents in the Catskills. There she meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, as experienced in life as Baby is naive. Mesmerized by the sexy beats and uninhibited movements of "dirty dancing," Baby soon becomes Johnny's prize pupil -- in dance and in love.

Fame
Story about students at the High School of Performing Arts, New York.

Flashdance
Alex Owens is a fiercely determined and beautiful 18 year old woman who works as a welder by day and as a dancer at a local bar at night. Alex gains independence, finds love, and realizes her dream--to dance at the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance.

Footloose
Ren McCormick finds himself in an uptight Midwestern town where dancing has been banned. Ren revolts with best friend Willard and the minister's daughter.

Graffiti Verité: Read the Writing on the Wall
Los Angeles graffiti artists discuss the themes and motivations of their work and how they evolved from taggers to artists.

GV2: Graffiti Verité 2
A follow-up film to the award winning documentary Graffiti Verité. Includes interviews with more graffiti artists and street scenes with over 400 tags, throw-ups and pieces of "street art" all presented to a backdrop of Hip-Hop music.

GV3: A Voyage into the Iconography of Graffiti Art
A montage of works of graffiti art featuring an eclectic sound track.

Grease
Musical concerning the romance between a teen-age gang-leader and his naive girlfriend, set in the 1950s.

Hairspray
In 1962 Baltimore there are changes in the air. Plus-sized teen Tracy Turnblad, with big hair and even bigger heart, has only one passion, to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corney Collins Show" and is transformed overnight from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. The trendsetting Tracy aims to win the heart of teen-dream Link Larkin and stand up for what she believes in.

High School Musical 3: Senior Year
As college approaches, the seniors are struggling with the idea of being separated from one another. Along with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical to address their experiences, hopes and fears about their future.

Mamma Mia!
20 year old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancée, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father.

Piece by Piece: The History of San Francisco Graffiti, Documented
An intimate journey into the most intriguing and misunderstood artistic movement of modern youth culture: the highly controversial graffiti arts movement in San Francisco.

The Red Shoes
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer.

Save the Last Dance
Sara's dreams of being a ballerina are shattered when her mother suddenly dies and she is sent to live with her father in Chicago's gritty South Side.

Save the Last Dance 2
Continuing the story of the original film, Sara follows her dream and becomes a student at Julliard. She is torn between traditional ballet and hip-hop. Will she follow the path of the tried and true, or will she dance into uncharted territory?

Step Up
The only thing that stands between Tyler and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day making it out of there. The only thing standing in the way of Nora's brilliant future is finding a great dance partner for her senior showcase. When trouble with the law lands Tyler with a community service gig at Maryland School of the Arts, he arrives as an angry outsider, until his skills as a gifted street dancer draw Nora's attention.

Step Up 2: The Streets
Andie is a spunky young women who is from one of Baltimore's grittiest neighborhoods. Her dance ability, which has been forged in fire on the streets, lands her in a prestigious performing arts school. There, she struggles to fit in. Her classmates are in awe of her talent and catches the eye of Chase, a guy from a privileged family. He becomes captivated by Andie's street dance moves and genuine heart.

Stomp the Yard
After the death of his younger brother, D.J., a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. His efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he discovers 'stepping,' an old traditional dance performed by African American fraternities and soon finds himself in the middle of a fierce rivalry between the top two campus fraternities.

Strictly Ballroom
A championship ballroom dancer who's breaking all the rules and his ugly duckling dancing partner make their dreams come true together.

Style Wars
A documentary exploration of the subculture of New York's young graffiti writers and breakdancers, showing their activities and aspirations and the social and aesthetic controversies surrounding New York graffiti.

Take the Lead
Pierre Dulane is a former professional ballroom dancer who volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system. At first his background clashes with his students' tastes, but together Dulane and his students create a completely new style of dance.

10 Things I Hate About You
Cameron falls for the most beautiful girl in school. However, she is forbidden to date until the most hated girl in school, her ill-tempered older sister, goes out too.

Write and Unite
Presents the world's greatest graffiti artists live in action. From subways to huge productions, street bombing to organized events, never before has there been such a complete, global documentation of today's top aerosolists and their work.

Artwork on this site is from the Teen Summer Reading Bookmark and Poster Design Contest Winners.

Las obras de arte en este sitio son de los ganadores del concurso para diseñar el cartel y el separador de páginas para el programa del Verano de Lectura para Jóvenes.