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2) Walt Whitman
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English
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An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems and excerpts from longer poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet.
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English
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2020 Rise: A Feminist Book Project Top Ten
A Year in GoodReads 5 Star Ratings
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Tear Jerkers
A Year in GoodReads 5 Star Ratings
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Tear Jerkers
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"Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...
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English
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2022-2023 OBOB 6th to 8th Grade
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
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Dial Books for Young Readers
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[2018]
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English
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"A joyful, poetic celebration of kindergarten and first grade Poet Kay Winters has written a book of zippy poems centering on the triumphs and trials of those first school years. This cheery collection covers an astonishing range of activities from the anticipated--dashing to the bus and science class discoveries--to the completely unexpected--losing a permission slip and seeing a teacher outside the classroom. Patrice Barton's sweetly smudgy watercolor...
11) The undefeated
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English
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Caldecott Medal | Winners and Honorees | 2020-Current
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"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree. Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma of slavery, the faith and fire of the civil rights movement, and the grit, passion, and perseverance of some of the world's greatest heroes. The text is...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2017]
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English
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Runny Babbit, the lovable star of Shel Silverstein's New York Times bestselling poetry book, is back! Runny Babbit Returns , a collection of 41 never-before-published poems and drawings, features Runny and other woodland characters who speak a topsy-turvy language all their own. This carefully compiled work from the Silverstein archives is filled with spoonerism poems that are both playful and poignant. With tongue-twisting word play and uproarious...
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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Three classic Dennis Lee titles in one beautiful book. This giftable and shareable volume brings together three of Dennis Lee's best-loved collections of poetry-Alligator Pie, Jelly Belly and The Ice Cream Store-spanning three decades of his warm and whimsical rhymes. "You can almost hear the skipping rope slapping the sidewalk," wrote Margaret Laurence of Dennis Lee's timeless poetry collection Alligator Pie. One of the first published illustrated...
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"Following the great success of his New York Times bestseller DUMPTY, comes award-winning actor and national bestselling author John Lithgow's next book of satirical poetry chronicling Trump and his administration-with poems of the impeachment and beyond"--
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