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A beautiful day in the neighborhood : the poetry of Mister Rogers
by Fred Rogers
Designed for both original fans and a new generation of children, an illustrated treasury of nearly all of the songs from the iconic preschool series explores universal childhood themes with such classics as "It's You I Like"" and ""Many Ways to Say I Love You."
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Firefly July : a year of very short poems
by Paul B Janeczko
A selection of short American poems dealing with the four seasons and the different weather events and animal patterns that can occur within each.
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Follow the recipe : poems about imagination, celebration, and cake
by Marilyn Singer
Presented in the style of a hand-sized vintage cookbook, a poetry collection by the award-winning author of Mirror Mirror contains simple and allegorical “recipes” that explore such concepts as peace and understanding. Illustrated by the Caldecott Honor-winning creator of Hot Air!
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Love that dog
by Sharon Creech
A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem. An ALA Notable Book.
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One leaf rides the wind : counting in a Japanese garden
by Celeste Davidson Mannis
Introduces haiku through a collection of ten simple poems while exploring the diversity and beauty of a Japanese garden as one leaf, three miniature bonsai trees, and other plants and garden treasures are presented.
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Alone
by Megan E. Freeman
When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. As months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. But Maddie's most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness she faces every day.
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A seed in the sun
by Aida Salazar
Lula Viramontes dreams of one day becoming someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling carpa, despite her father's traditional views of what girls should be. When her family arrives for the grape harvest in Delano, California, Lula meets activist Dolores Huerta and el Teatro Campesino (the official theater company of the United Farm Workers). She discovers an even more pressing reason to raise her voice: the upcoming farm workers' strike, an event that will determine her family's future--for better or worse.
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Locomotion
by Jacqueline Woodson
In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.
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Louder than hunger
by John Schu
Even though he likes helping people, Jake, who avoids kids his own age, mirrors and food, must help himself when the destructive voices inside get to be too much, in this raw and transformative novel-in-verse about managing and articulating pain, and embracing self-acceptance, support and love.
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Other words for home
by Jasmine Warga
Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian community is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the beloved family members who were left behind and forges a new sense of identity shaped by friends and changing perspectives.
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Starfish
by Lisa Fipps
A debut novel-in-verse follows the experiences of a girl who tries to change her behavior when she is bullied for her weight, before a swimming hobby, a kind therapist and an accepting new neighbor help her embrace her true self.
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The deepest breath
by Meg Grehan
A middle grade novel-in-verse depicts a young girl whose visits to the library help her manage her anxiety about the many things she has yet to understand, including her complicated feelings about her friend, Chloe.
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Woke : a young poet's call to justice
by Mahogany L. Browne
A collection of poems by women of color, written for today's generation of young activists, reflects the passion of the fight for social justice while tackling subjects ranging from discrimination and empathy to acceptance and speaking out.
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Worst-case Collin
by Rebecca Caprara
In the two years since his mother was killed in an automobile crash, Colin has been anticipating further disasters, writing down what to do in the event of an avalanche or mentally practicing the Heimlich maneuver just in case--but the real trouble is that his mathematician father is obsessed with a classic math problem and has a hoarding problems that is spiraling out of control, leaving Colin desperate to hide this chaos from his friends and everyone else, even as he struggles with his own grief.
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African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song
by Kevin Young
A wide-ranging anthology of black poetry represents 250 famous and less-recognized poets from the colonial era to the present who used their powerful words to illuminate such issues as racism, slavery and the threatened African Diaspora identity.
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The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void by Jackie WangThe poems in The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void read like dispatches from the dream world, with Jackie Wang acting as our trusted comrade reporting across time and space. By sharing her personal index of dreams with its scenes of solidarity and resilience, interpersonal conflict and outlaw jouissance, Wang embodies historical trauma and communal memory. Here, the all-too-familiar interplay between crisis and resistance becomes first distorted, then clarified and refreshed. With a light touch and invigorating sense of humor, Wang illustrates the social dimension of dreams and their ability to inform and reshape the dreamer's waking world with renewed energy and insight.
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Call us what we carry : poems
by Amanda Gorman
This poetry collection by the youngest presidential inaugural poet in U.S. history harnesses the collective grief of a global pandemic and shines a light on our current moment of reckoning while offering hope and healing.
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Floaters: Poems
by Martín Espada
What's inside: From the winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry comes masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief, and love. Whether celebrating the visionaries—the fallen dreamers, rebels and poets—or condemning the outrageous governmental neglect of his father’s Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane María, Espada invokes ferocious, incandescent spirits.
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Illumination : poetry to light up the darkness
by Tyler Knott Gregson
Tyler Knott Gregson is the original InstaPoet. With loyal fans across the country and all over the internet, he breathes new life into this ancient medium and delights fans with his openness and honesty alongside his beautiful photography. This new book will be his first poetry collection in four years, and he returns now with a message of hope. In his elegant and simple style, Tyler will lift your spirits, keep you going when times get tough, and remind you of the inherent inner strength you already have within you.
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Poetry unbound : 50 poems to open your world
by Padraig âO Tuama
Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers immersive reflections on fifty powerful poems. In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pâadraig Ó Tuama's appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem's artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives.
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Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
by Joy Harjo
Three-term U.S. Poet Laureate Harjo, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, offers the best of her deep-rooted, farseeing, musically astute poetry written over five decades, each accompanied by notes about the inspiration and creation of each poem that allow readers to see even favorite and familiar poems with new eyes.
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Why poetry
by Matthew Zapruder
Award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry - and poetry alone - can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it... Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder's personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone.
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The cholo who said nothing and other poems
by Chacón, Kenneth Robert
The lives in The Cholo Who Said Nothing And Other Poems by Kenneth Robert Chacón are hard, even brutal, but ultimately redeemed in their spiritual yearning. These poems are expansive in both their detailed portraiture and their ambitious journey.
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