Mirandy and Brother Wind

By Jerry Pinkney, Patricia McKissack

Subjects: grade:max:2, Determination (Personality trait) in children, African American dance, Dance, fiction, African Americans, Cakewalk (Dance), African americans, fiction, grade:min:Preschool, lexile:690, age:max:7, Caldecott Medal, lexile_range:601-700, African American children, Children's stories, American, Winds, collectionID:caldecotthonor80, Fiction, Children's fiction, Coretta Scott King Award, Dance, age:min:3, Juvenile fiction, Winds, fiction, Contests, award:Caldecott_award, Friendship

Description: To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.