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Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more. Exhilarating and electric, these poems capture the energy and resilience of a neighborhood and a people.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series. Sarah Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own daughter, A'Lelia. Together they built a million-dollar beauty empire for women of color. Marie Curie became the first person in history to win two Nobel prizes...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
"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...
13) Say her name
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of voices celebrating the creativity, resilience, and courage of Black women and girls. This collection features forty-nine powerful poems, four of which are tribute poems inspired by...
18) Emily Dickinson
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A portrait of the American poet known as the Riddle of Amherst, interspersed with examples of her work.
19) E. E. Cummings
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of the twentieth-century American writer whose poetry combined artistic composition with word play and traditional rhyme and meter. Includes examples of his work.
20) Sylvia Plath
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of the troubled woman whose literary achievements were cut short by her suicide at age thirty, interspersed with examples of her poetry.