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The 100 Best African American Poems
This anthology, edited by award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni, contains more than one hundred poems by classic and contemporary African-American poets. Also included with the text is an audio CD with some selections of poetry read aloud.- Poetry
- Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners 2014
- ISBN: 9781402221118
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Ask Me How I Got Here
Addie has always known what she was running toward. In cross-country, in life, in love. Until she and her boyfriend—her sensitive, good-guy boyfriend—are careless one night and she ends up pregnant. Addie makes the difficult choice to have an abortion. And after that—even though she knows it was the right decision for her—nothing is the same anymore. She doesn't want anyone besides her parents and her boyfriend to know what happened; she doesn't want to run cross-country; she can't bring herself to be excited about anything. Until she reconnects with Juliana, a former teammate who's going through her own dark places. -
Blood Water Paint
Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than grind pigment. She was one of Rome's most talented painters, even if no one knew her name. But Rome in 1610 was a city where men took what they wanted from women, and in the aftermath of rape Artemisia faced another terrible choice: a life of silence or a life of truth, no matter the cost. He will not consume my every thought. I am a painter. I will paint. I will show you what a woman can do. -
Electric Arches
Wielding words and images like lasers, and bending genres to her will, Ewing's poetry and prose tells stories both personal and universal. With humor and gravitas, this collection spotlights the joy, cruelty, and struggle of life.- Poetry
- Alex Awards 2018
- ISBN: 9781608468560
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Finding Langston
When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known as the Great Migration. It's lonely in the small apartment with just the two of them, and at school Langston is bullied. But his new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the local public library welcomes everyone. There, hiding out after school, Langston discovers another Langston, a poet whom he learns inspired his mother enough to name her only son after him.- Poetry
- CSK Book Awards - Author - Honor 2019
- ISBN: 9780823439607
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For Every One
A letter to everyone who is on their path to achieve their dream. Reynolds offers no answers to achieving one's dream; he only offers his honest and love, his experiences, his failures, and his realizations for the listener's consideration and inspiration.- Poetry, Audiobook
- Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2019
- ISBN: 9781508246114
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Good Poems
Selected from Keillor's radio show, The Writer's Almanac, this anthology of both contemporary and classic poetry is the first in a set of three. Poems range from quirky to quaint and everyone is sure to find at least one favorite in this accessible collection. -
How I Discovered Poetry
- Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir
- CSK Book Awards - Author - Honor 2015
- ISBN: 9780147510051
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Jazz
Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music. -
The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist
Through her poetry, young Tula is liberated and inspired to become an abolitionist and feminist in nineteenth-century Cuba.- Nonfiction, Poetry
- Amelia Bloomer List - Young Adult Fiction 2014, Best Fiction for Young Adults 2014
- ISBN: 9780547807430
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Skyscraping
High school senior Mira must come to terms with discovering that her father is gay and living with HIV- Poetry
- Best Fiction for Young Adults 2016
- ISBN: 9780399167713
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Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
The tragedy of Evers's death is revealed through poems in the voice of his widow, brother, the wives of his killer, and the killer himself.- Poetry
- Outstanding Books for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners 2014
- ISBN: 9780820345413