Nikki Grimes
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of nine 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 home care.
To hone his writing skills and learn more about the power of words, Darrian enrolls in Mr. Ward's class, known for its open-mic poetry readings and boys vs. girls poetry slam. Everyone in class has something important to say, and in sharing...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Jayden expects to see nothing but brown his first morning in New Mexico, but after being surprised by colorful rocks, flowers, birds, and animals, he wonders if this place could become home.
26) Words with wings
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
84 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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Description
Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay attention, and the other kids tease her...until she finds a friend who also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing session into every school day. With a notebook "thick with daydreams," Gabby grows more confident about...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Step into the shoes of Mary, Joseph, the Innkeeper, Elizabeth, the Shepherds, and more as we poetically recount the wonder of the birth of Jesus through the eyes of those who were witness.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl learns much about her mother as she reads a collection of poems written before she was born that capture her mother's memories of living around the world and growing up as a child of an Air Force serviceperson. Includes author's note, list of select U.S. Air Force bases, and explanation of the free verse and tanka poetry forms used.
30) The watcher
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A poetic story inspired by Psalm 121. Jordan lives in fear of Tanya, the class bully. But Tanya has worries of her own, no matter how much she tries to ignore them. It seems impossible that Jordan and Tanya could be anything other than enemies, but the Lord is watching over them, guiding each of them along a path that might just help them to understand one another.
31) When Daddy prays
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color, illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
53 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In this imaginative biographical story, Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony sit down over a cup of tea in 1904 to reminisce about their struggles and triumphs in the service of freedom and women's rights.
35) At break of day
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
37) Oh, brother!
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Xavier is unhappy when his mother remarries and he suddenly has a new stepbrother, as well as a stepfather, in his home.
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Channeling their own experiences, sixteen exceptional authors subvert mental health stereotypes in a powerful and uplifting collection of fiction. A teen activist wrestles with protest-related anxiety and PTSD. A socially anxious vampire learns he has to save his town by (gulp) working with people. As part of her teshuvah, a girl writes letters to the ex-boyfriend she still loves, revealing that her struggle with angry outbursts is related to PMDD....
