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Jazmin’s Notebook
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Nikki Grimes |
Her name is Jazmin, and like the music of her name, her life throbs and swings—a few flat notes to be sure, but also bursting with rich passages that rise and soar. Sitting on her stoop she fills her… |
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Comfort
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Carolee Dean |
Fourteen-year-old Kenny Roy Willson fantasizes about escape from his hometown of Comfort, Texas, following his alcoholic father's release from prison. |
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Comfort
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Carolee Dean |
Fourteen-year-old Kenny Roy Willson fantasizes about escape from his hometown of Comfort, Texas, following his alcoholic father's release from prison. |
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Eva of the Farm
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Dia Calhoun |
Twelve-year-old Eva writes beautiful poems on the farm in Washington State that her family has owned for generations, but when money runs out and then her baby brother gets sick, the family faces for… |
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Hope Is a Ferris Wheel
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Robin Herrera |
After moving from Oregon to a trailer park in California, ten-year-old Star participates in a poetry club, where she learns some important lessons about herself and her own hopes and dreams for the f… |
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One Quiet Morning: Story and Pictures
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Helena Clare Pittman |
When Gerald is unable to write a poem because of the noise, his grandmother tells him what things used to be like when she was a girl. |
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Between the lines
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Nikki Grimes |
A group of high school students grow in understanding of each other's challenges and forge unexpected connections as they prepare for a boys vs. girls poetry slam. Includes author's note about foster… |
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How to be a lion
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Ed Vere |
Meet Leonard, a lion, and his best friend Marianne, a duck. Leonard and Marianne have a happy life together - talking, playing, writing poems, and making wishes - until one day a pack of bullies ques… |
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Finding Langston
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Lesa Cline-Ransome |
When 11-year-old Langston s mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago s brown belt. It s lonely in the small apartment with just the two of them, and at school Langston i… |
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Hit
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Lorie Ann Grover |
High school senior Sarah takes a poetry class led by Mr. Haddings, a student teacher from the nearby University of Washington, and finds herself using her poetry journal to subtly declare her feeling… |
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Daniel's Good Day
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Micha Archer |
The people in Daniel's neighborhood always say, "Have a good day!" But what exactly is a good day? Daniel is determined to find out, and as he strolls through his neighborhood, he finds a wonderful w… |
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Grandad's tree
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Julia Cairns,Jill Bennett |
A collection of poems about family life, family diversity, and what it means to be a family. |
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Shakespeare bats cleanup
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Ronald Koertge |
When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love,… |
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Call me Marianne
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Jennifer Bryant |
A boy meets an older woman at the zoo, and together they observe the animals while she tells him about the process of writing poetry. |
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Love That Dog
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Sharon Creech |
*Love that Dog* is a story about a young boy named Jack, and how he learns to love poetry. At the same time, he learns to open up about his feelings on a subject learned only if you read the book. Th… |
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Slugs in love
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Susan Pearson |
Marylou and Herbie, two garden slugs, write love poems in slime to one another but have trouble actually meeting. |
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Shaky Bones
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Pamela Dell |
In 1926, a twelve-year-old aspiring poet nicknamed Shaky Bones enters the first annual Harlem All-School Young Poets Competition. |
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A snow story
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Melvin Leavitt |
A young boy begins writing poems in the snow that are read and responded to by wildlife, and he continues writing them throughout his life. |
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Stanza
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Jill Esbaum |
Stanza the dog and his two rotten brothers terrorize the streets by day, but at night Stanza secretly writes poetry. |
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Castle of Books
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Bernard Clavel |
Benjamin's father is a poet whose house is filled with books, so when Benjamin decides he wants to build a castle in the courtyard, he uses his father's books instead of stones. |
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